Rund Abdelfatah is the co-host and producer of “Throughline,” a podcast that explores the history of current events. In that role, she’s responsible for all aspects of the podcast’s production, including development of episode concepts, interviewing guests, and sound design. Abdelfatah joined NPR in 2014 as an intern and went on to become a producer on a number of NPR’s most popular podcasts, including “How I Built This,” “TED Radio Hour,” “NPR Politics,” “Code Switch,” and “Pop Culture Happy Hour.” The concept for “Throughline,” launched in February 2019, was developed by Abdelfatah and her co-host, Ramtin Arablouei. Abdelfatah got her start in journalism covering local and domestic politics at the Washington bureau of the BBC. She earned her bachelor’s degree in anthropology, with a minor in Spanish, from Princeton University.

Kacie Lucchini Butcher is a public historian whose work is dedicated to building empathy and advancing social justice. She is the director of UW–Madison’s Public History Project. She has worked in museums and for community organizations, helping communities reclaim their narratives through collaborative public history projects. She has experience engaging marginalized communities through historical partnerships, creating and sustaining community-centered archives, and producing historical research that foregrounds social justice. Her previous projects focused on how history is connected to the present, in efforts to explore and question systems of inequity and oppression. She is active in the public history community — hosting events and community conversations, attending trainings and editing publications — and she serves as the co-chair of the Membership Committee for the National Council on Public History. She earned her master’s degree in Heritage Studies & Public History from the University of Minnesota.