Catherine Ellis is an award-winning broadcast and podcast journalist, and the founder of Audio Memoir. She is a co-editor (with Stephen Drury Smith) of Free All Along: The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interviews, Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches, and Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity and (with Mary Marshall Clark, Peter Bearman, and Stephen Drury Smith) of After the Fall, all published by The New Press. Ellis holds a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University, where her research compared the way whites and African Americans in Louisiana remember the Jim Crow era. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.