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Michelle Walson is the founding producer of the live storytelling show and podcast, RISK!, which gets over 1.1 million downloads every month and has been hailed as one of the best podcasts of 2015 by iTunes.

From SNL’s Rachel Dratch and The Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi to professionals from IBM, Google, Time and Saatchi & Saatchi, she has spent the past seven years helping people hone their true stories for performances and presentations.

Michelle has taught storytelling at The Peoples Improv Theater, The Story Studio and The Women in Comedy Festival, and her students have won Moth StorySLAMS, performed solo shows and published memoirs.

She holds an MFA in Film Production from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, an MS in Television Production from Boston University and a BA in Creative Writing from Brown University.

Michelle Walson is the founding producer of the live storytelling show and podcast, RISK!, which gets over 1.1 million downloads every month and has been hailed as one of the best podcasts of 2015 by iTunes.

From SNL’s Rachel Dratch and The Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi to professionals from IBM, Google, Time and Saatchi & Saatchi, she has spent the past seven years helping people hone their true stories for performances and presentations.

Michelle has taught storytelling at The Peoples Improv Theater, The Story Studio and The Women in Comedy Festival, and her students have won Moth StorySLAMS, performed solo shows and published memoirs.

She holds an MFA in Film Production from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, an MS in Television Production from Boston University and a BA in Creative Writing from Brown University.

Robin Gelfenbien kicked off her career behind the wheel of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. Today, she is a comedic storyteller who has told stories on PBS, at The Moth, Mortified, RISK! and more. She was also a Featured Speaker at New York Social Media Week for a session on storytelling and business.

Robin is the Host and Creator of the live storytelling series and podcast, Yum’s the Word, that features her homemade ice cream cakes. The show has been named a New York Times and Time Out New York Critic’s Pick.

As a Creative Director/Copywriter, she has spent over two decades creating compelling stories for Colgate, Nikon, Bertolli, SundanceTV, Food Network, Vera Wang, among others. She has also worked at VaynerMedia, Ogilvy, Y&R, McCann and more developing digital, video, and social media campaigns for their clients.

Robin holds a B.S. degree in Marketing & TV/Radio/Film - Writing from the S.I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University.