Diana Steenbergen

“When I met Diana, I could see straightaway that she was no wallflower. I liked her initiative and her story sense. I hired her.

By the time the show ended production, Diana had won a Gold Medal and the overall Grand Award at the New York International Radio and Television Festival, which had entries from industry-leading radio programs like “This American Life”, “Radiolab” and several BBC Radio programs.

The interview that won these prizes featured a blogger from Benghazi, who’d taken — and posted on Facebook — photos of Qadaffi’s tanks rolling into the city. He was captured, tortured with unspeakable cruelty, and became HIV+ as a result. Yet he couldn’t tell his family because of the enormous shame it would bring upon his family. He was stuck: a journalist who risked everything telling the world about the conflict in Libya, but who couldn’t divulge to those who loved him most what had actually happened to him.

Wallflowers don’t get compelling stories like these. Diana does. (Diana also has great pipes and is a natural for voice-over work!)”