Ted Genoways
Editor, Switchyard magazine

Host, Switchyard Podcast

Ted Genoways is an award-winning journalist and author of five books, including This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm (W. W. Norton, 2017), winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Award, and The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food (Harper, 2014), a finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award for Writing and Literature. His other accolades include the 2018 James Beard Foundation Award for Investigative Journalism, a Sidney Award from the Hillman Foundation, a National Press Club Award, an Association of Food Journalists Award, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation.

Genoways is a contributing editor at Mother Jones and The New Republic and has written for The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, and The Washington Post. He served as editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review for nine years, during which the magazine won six National Magazine Awards. He currently edits Switchyard and teaches journalism at University of Tulsa.

Mary Anne Andrei
Multimedia Editor, Switchyard magazine

Executive Producer, Switchyard Podcast

Mary Anne Andrei is a President’s Professor in Media Studies and an acclaimed multimedia storyteller with a focus on the environment, food, and the American West. Her work has garnered numerous accolades, including a James Beard Award, three Heartland Emmy Awards, two regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, and three Eric Sevareid Awards.

As a senior producer at Nebraska Public Media, Mary Anne wrote and produced a PBS Digital 360° video series on the Platte Basin Watershed, a short film about the conservation of the American bison, and podcasts about skateboarding in the Midwest and the Farm Bill, co-produced with Harvest Public Media and FERN. Her work has appeared across various media, including in print publications such as Harper’s, The New Republic, and Bloomberg Businessweek, on air with PBS and NPR’s "All Things Considered," and online with National Geographic and the Weather Channel’s United States of Climate Change.

Mary Anne's book, Nature’s Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America’s Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species, was published by the University of Chicago Press in December 2020. Her photography has been featured in prominent outlets including The Guardian, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

Taylor Le

Design Director

Taylor is the Creative Director for the San Francisco Standard. Taylor’s projects at the Los Angeles Times, Medium, AFAR Media and San Francisco Magazine saw her guiding the art departments through collaborations with multilevel stakeholders to improve processes and develop thoughtful branding and designs. Previously, as creative director at Pacific Standard, she assigned and produced immersive photo stories, procured brand partnerships with the Pulitzer Center, NOOR, and Magnum Photos, and led redesign efforts that turned the small, academic journal into a national media brand. Under Taylor’s creative leadership, Pacific Standard received a National Magazine Award for feature photography.