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The ADNA Presents

Mar 31, 2026

Darian Rodriguez Heyman has spent thirty years helping mission-led organizations stop reinventing the wheel.

He's the author of AI for Nonprofits, founder of Helping People Help, and someone who has thought seriously about why good intentions so often produce predictable, avoidable mistakes.


What drew me to this...


Mar 24, 2026

Lee Pugsley and Alex Howard of The Dark Room watched this year's Oscar ceremony with audio description on, and they brought friends. John Stark, and the newest Blind Film Critic Society member Ren Leach, join them to hand out their own awards, debate the night's surprises and snubs, and reflect on what it actually felt...


Mar 24, 2026

Joanne Levine has spent her career making sure people who aren't physically there, could still experience what happened there.

As founding head of programming for Al Jazeera English in the Americas, a producer for Nightline and ABC World News Tonight, and a Senior Advisor for Media at the State Department, she has...


Mar 17, 2026

What does it take to make a joke land in a language it was never written for? How do you know when the emotional contract with an audience has held, and when has it broken?

Scott McCarthy has been sitting with those questions for more than twenty years. As VP of Localization at DreamWorks Animation Television, he...


Mar 10, 2026

J. Michael Collins has 30 years in voiceover, 50+ industry awards, and runs the largest voiceover conference in the world. He also still has things worth saying.

In this conversation, J. Michael and Roy talk about why the voiceover industry is unusually decent, what abundance actually means in a business full of...