Clear+Vivid Creators & Guests

Alan Alda is an actor, director, screenwriter, comedian, and author.

Sarah is the Executive Producer, Writer, and VO Artist for Alan Alda's podcast, Clear+Vivid, which has had over 7 million downloads. Notable guests include Tom Hanks, Paul McCartney, Julie Andrews, Madeline Albright, Tina Fey, Michael J. Fox, Judge Judy, Isabella Rossellini, and many more.

Alan Zweibel is a producer and writer. He has worked on such productions as Saturday Night Live, PBS' Great Performances, and It's Garry Shandling's Show.

Betty White is an actress, comedian, author, and animal rights advocate.

Wynton Marsalis is a virtuoso trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

George Whitesides is a chemist, and Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University.

Jonathan LaPook is a board-certified physician in internal medicine, gastroenterology, and Chief Medical Correspondent for CBS News.

Roger is a memoirist, essayist, and novelist. In 2018, he launched the podcast "Word For Word." He was a long-time essayist for Time magazine and PBS NewsHour. He is currently the Distinguished Professor of English and Writing at Stony Brook University.

Madeleine Albright is a politician and diplomat. She is the first female United States Secretary of State in U.S. history.

Leo Rafael Reif is an electrical engineer, writer, and academic administrator.

Benjamin Falcone is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker.

Katie Couric is a journalist and author.

Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker known for his books and essays on social science, psychology, and human behavior. He has been a staff writer for New Yorker since 1996. Gladwell gained widespread recognition with his debut book, "The Tipping Point," followed by bestsellers like "Blink," "Outliers," and "David and Goliath." He is also the co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries and hosts the "Revisionist History" podcast.

Anne Hope Jahren is a geochemist, geobiologist, writer, and author of the book The Story of More.

Kate Marvel is a climate scientist and science writer. She is an Associate Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia Engineering's Department of Applied Physics & Mathematics. She also writes regularly for Scientific American in her column "Hot Planet."

Sarah Vowell a historian and writer. She has written seven books on American history. She was a contributing editor for This American Life from 1996 to 2008.

Dr. Deborah Tannen is an academic professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, writer, and author of the book Finding My Father.

Kate Crawford is a writer, composer, producer, academic, principal researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective), co-founder & director of research at the AI Now Institute at NYU, and visiting professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media.