Alyssa Martino is a Brooklyn-based writer and podcast executive.

Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, VICE, and Catapult, among others. She is currently the SVP of Podcasts at FilmNation Entertainment, the producers behind Arrival, The Big Sick, and Promising Young Woman. She helped create and now oversees production for the award-winning history doc, SNAFU with Ed Helms, which won two Signal awards and has already been greenlit for three seasons. Recently, we told the story of a spectacular FBI office heist in 1971, which The Washington Post and on The Daily Show then covered.

Previously, she executive produced true crime podcast Murder on the Towpath with journalist Soledad O’Brien, Torched with Molly’s Game author Molly Bloom, and others. She worked as the Associate Director of Podcasts at book publisher Macmillan, translating the talents of best-selling authors into shows that garnered millions of downloads and praise in Vulture, Wired, The Guardian, Inc, Bustle, The Verge, and more. She has an MFA from the University of New Hampshire and writes essays and fiction.