Catherine (Cat) Jaffee is an audio producer and the founder of House of Pod where she has shepherded over 50 podcast series into existence, including Outside’s Daily Rally, and productions with National Geographic Society, PRX, PBS, Gimlet, SAPIENS, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. She also wrote and directed Guardians of the River, a podcast about one of Africa’s most wild water systems, and the people who protect it. Completed while Cat fought a cancer diagnosis in 2020, Guardians of the River won best non-fiction podcast at the Tribeca and the Jackson Wild film festivals. Cat is a two-time National Geographic grantee, a Fulbright scholar, a Luce scholar, and a proud Chumba ultra-bikepacking racer.