Josh Raulerson, PhD, got his first radio job at age 15, holding down evening and weekend airshifts at his hometown station in rural Iowa. He discovered public radio in college, working first as a board operator and later a producer/host on Iowa State University’s WOI-AM (NPR) and WOI-FM (classical). The experience led to more on-air and production work at Iowa Public Radio (WSUI-KSUI) while earning his doctorate in English literature at the University of Iowa.

Raulerson went on to serve as News Director at Aspen Public Radio (KAJX) in Aspen, Colorado, and local host of NPR’s Morning Edition at WESA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he received honors for investigative reporting from the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcasters Association. While in Pittsburgh, he co-created and produced the nationally-recognized Criminal Injustice podcast with host David Harris.

As Director of Communications at the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC), Raulerson uses video and audio to tell the story of PEC’s statewide efforts promoting clean energy, healthy watersheds, and conservation-focused outdoor recreation. Since 2016 he has hosted and produced more than 200 episodes of PEC’s Pennsylvania Legacies podcast.

Raulerson is the author of Singularities: Technoculture, Transhumanism, and Science Fiction in the 21st Century, published in 2013 by Liverpool University Press and shortlisted for the University of California, Riverside Science Fiction & Technoculture Studies Book Prize in 2014. The manuscript was adapted from his doctoral dissertation at the University of Iowa (2010).