Noa Fleischacker

Director

Noa Fleischacker was raised in Evanston, Illinois and earned a B.A. in Anthropology, Education Studies, and Dance from Oberlin College. After graduating in 2015, she worked for three years in Chicago as a political organizer for J Street U. She recruited and developed student leaders across the Midwest and directed regional strategy and campaigns. Noa is currently on the Dorot Fellowship where she's conducting research on healthcare gaslighting and women's public health issues and participating in a joint secular-religious group for women with chronic vulvar pain.

Today she spends her free time on the phone with women around the world talking about vaginas. Noa is thrilled to bring her personal and political organizing experiences to the show.

Stephanie Histon

Organizer

Stephanie is a queer black woman with a background in conflict resolution through restorative justice practices. She hopes to work towards a world where physical ability isn't used to define our worthiness.

Swathi Mettela

Organizer

Swathi Mettela grew up in Queens, NY and earned a B.A. in Anthropology from CUNY City College. After graduating, she worked as a community habilitation specialist and is now a medical student at the Penn State College of Medicine where she conducts qualitative research on disability in medical education and vulvovaginal pain. Swathi is excited to be on the Tight Lipped team and work towards filling in the gaps in pelvic healthcare as a future physiatrist!

Sarah Minion

Organizer

Sarah Minion grew up in southern Jersey and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. She works on a project focused on the shifting geography of mass incarceration, working with community organizers, local and state policymakers, and journalists across the country to elevate the fact that that we can’t end our nation’s incarceration crisis until we do so in communities of all sizes. Sarah graduated from Oberlin College where she studied Comparative American Studies, Politics, and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, and is excited to bring her near-decade of community organizing experience to the Tight Lipped team.

Sarah is deeply invested in improving her bowling high score of 139, honing her pizza-making craft, and making vulvovaginal/pelvic pain a kitchen-table conversation. 

Kevinn Poree

Organizer

Kevinn Poree is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. She has worked as an ESL instructor in several states and countries, including Hawaii, Oklahoma, Louisiana, India, and South Korea. These days she works as a public servant in her hometown. She is a cat mom and vestibulodynia patient.

Hannah Srajer

Organizer

Hannah Srajer is a PhD student in the history department at Yale University, where she studies incarceration, healthcare, and social movements. She received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University, where she majored in history and poetry.

Hannah loves to go on passionate rants about the pelvic floor, the evils of the healthcare insurance system, and standing desks. Hannah is thrilled to be on the Tight Lipped team!

Hannah Barg

Executive Producer

Hannah Barg is a St. Louis, Missouri native with a passion for education, radio and storytelling. Hannah graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 2014 with a B.A. in Anthropology. After college, she moved to Chicago to work for a college access program. In 2017, she interned at StoryCorps, and in September of that year she moved to Jerusalem for the year to join the Israel Story Podcast team as a Production Intern and later as the Tour Manager. Hannah's currently based in Chicago where she works at a nonprofit and as a freelance audio producer! When she's not working, she's busy making too many plans with friends, buying plants, playing softball (poorly), and spending as much time as possible outside!

Ava Ahmadbeigi

Story Editor

Ava Ahmadbeigi is an audio producer and storyteller with a background in investigative human rights reporting and narrative nonfiction production. Most recently she was a producer/editor at Palisades Media Ventures, making narrative nonfiction podcasts for the Stanford Center on Longevity and Columbia Business School. Before that she was working in the non-profit space, first as the LGBTQ Rights Program Coordinator at an international Human Rights non-profit, and later at StoryCorps as the Site Manager of their Mobile Tour. Ava also stays connected to her human rights roots by occasionally fact checking podcasts for Three Uncanny Four Productions and LW&C. She holds a BA in Social and Cultural Analysis from NYU, and plans to move back to her hometown of Queens, NY soon! In the meantime she’s honing her storytelling skills at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, and is excited to be working as the Story Editor for Season 2 of Tight Lipped!

Olivia Good

Writer

Olivia Good is a freelance writer and audio producer living in Brooklyn, New York. She has a B.A. in the History of Art from Barnard College and an M.A. in the History of Design, Decorative Art, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center. After working in the gallery and museum world, she began her second career in audio by producing and writing audio guides and podcasts for museums across the country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Museum, Ellis Island, New York Botanical Garden, Jewish Museum, and Art Institute of Chicago. Today, she is thrilled to be writing for a wider range of narrative non-fiction podcasts, including Tight Lipped! She loves stories and storytelling (and is particularly passionate about telling women’s stories), and in her free time, she can be found reading anything and everything, watching movies from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, and working on a novel she may or may not ever finish.

Angela Johnston

Writer

Angela Johnston is a reporter, producer, and editor living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. She covers health and the environment for KALW Public Radio and works as a freelance producer for podcast company Cosmic Standard. She’s reported on everything from lead poisoning to climate change, and is passionate about equity and accessibility in health care. Her work has aired on KALW, KQED, Reveal, and The Pulse. She holds a Master’s degree in Journalism, has completed reporting fellowships with USC Annenberg and UC Berkeley, and has won numerous awards for her work. Angela is also an accomplished editor and teacher, and teaches audio journalism classes at San Quentin State Prison. When she’s not making radio, she loves swimming in the Bay, surfing small waves on her longboard, or working in her veggie garden.

Kalaisha Totty

Production Assistant

Kalaisha is an early-career Producer and Reporter whose passion is telling narrative-based stories about community struggles, activism and triumphs. She has produced a few investigative pieces with NPR/KCRW podcast Bodies. She is currently an Associate Producer for Bodies season 3 and Story Producer for Silver Media.

Kalaisha is familiar with both the creative and technical components of audio production. She is especially skilled at booking and pre-interviewing guests, scripting episodes, and recording and editing audio. 

In her free time, she loves dancing, binge-watching reruns of her favorite shows and taking a break after running after her toddler all day.

Delilah Righter

Associate Producer

After receiving her BA in Anthropology & Music at Tufts University this past Spring, Delilah has returned to Brooklyn, NY, where she is splitting her time working at a bar and interning for Tight Lipped. She is very passionate about storytelling and women’s/reproductive health and is excited about joining the team as TL is a great intersection of those interests. In her free time, Delilah likes to play electric bass and knit.

Valeria Donoso

Fall Intern

Valeria Donoso was born and raised in Miami, Florida. She is a Posse and Bonner Scholar going into her Junior Year as a Biology Major on the Pre-Medical Track at Davidson College in North Carolina. At Davidson College, Valeria is the Vice-President of the Rape Awareness Committee, a Mathematics Tutor, and a member of Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad, Lambda Pi Chi Sorority, Inc. As a Bonner Scholar, Valeria has dedicated over 500 hours volunteering as a Spanish Interpreter at a Free Clinic and a Psychology research assistant for Latinx Education. In her free time she loves to doodle and journal!

Tiffany Yuen

Spring Intern

Tiffany (she/her) is a second-year at Oberlin College majoring Environmental Studies and Sociology major. She is involved in campus organizations like the Sexual Information Center and the Oberlin Doula Collective, which provides emotional counseling and sexual health education for students. In her free time, she enjoys bike rides, watching sunsets, and making art.

Our Sponsors

• The Vagina Collective: The Vagina Collective funds people and organizations changing how society talks about vulvovaginal pain.

• National Vulvodynia Association

• Dorot Fellowship Alumni Leadership Award