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Longtime listeners recognize Jacki Lyden's voice from her frequent work as a substitute host on NPR. As a journalist who has been with NPR since 1979, Lyden regards herself first and foremost as a storyteller and looks for the distinctive human voice in a huge range of national and international stories.

Patty is a graduate of the University of Vermont and a multiple award-winning reporter for Maine Public Radio. Her specialty is health coverage: from policy stories to patient stories, physical health to mental health and anything in between. Patty joined Maine Public Radio in 2012 after producing stories as a freelancer for NPR programs such as Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She got hooked on radio at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, and hasn’t looked back ever since.

Merrit Kennedy is a reporter for NPR's News Desk. She covers a broad range of issues, from the latest developments out of the Middle East to science research news.

Cecil Doyle has been a major architect of the KRVS sound for many years. Cecil's masterful ability to craft textured, flowing, and often surprising musical offerings in his weekly programs is why his name first comes to mind when listeners talk about KRVS. Whether he's interviewing artists from the latest local musical vibration in the Cypress Lake Studios on Medicine Ball Caravan, or guiding audiences on a musical tour of an intriguing and exotic locale on Earthbeat, Cecil Doyle lives for music, and it shows. Cecil is South Louisiana's window into the world of Reggae on Jah Mon, when Sunday night's KRVS world tour makes a two-hour stop in Jamaica for an audio blast of the Rastafari experience. There's never a dull moment with Cecil Doyle on KRVS.