Krys Boyd, host and managing editor of KERA 90.1's flagship midday talk show Think since 2006, began her career along the U.S.-Mexico border, spending nearly seven years working simultaneously at radio and television stations as a reporter, anchor and news director. A graduate of TCU, Boyd returned to North Texas in 1999 to serve as News Director for Broadcast.com, and later Senior Producer of Broadcast News at Yahoo — a position that gave her both the freedom to pursue long-form interviews with a wide range of cultural and political figures and a diverse audience to consume them.  Boyd joined KERA in 2001, hosting the nightly radio talk show Conversations.  Later, she wrote and produced documentary and educational television programs, including the critically-acclaimed national broadcast JFK: Breaking the News in 2003.   Boyd also served as producer and co-host of the Emmy Award-winning public affairs program On The Record.   Her duties on Think were expanded to include a weekly television presence in February of 2007. Her list of “favorite” interview subjects grows longer and less manageable with each passing week, but it includes Bishop Desmond Tutu, This American Life host Ira Glass, Sister Helen Prejean and Dr. Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard psychologist who has devoted his academic career to the study of human happiness.  Boyd lives in Dallas with her son, Ben, and daughter, Clara—whose very interesting questions are a constant source of inspiration to her. 

Jeff Whittington is senior producer of KERA's weekday Think program, and host of the weekly show Anything You Ever Wanted to Know. Formerly producer of the Glenn Mitchell Show and The Talk Show, Whittington began his career at KERA as an events planner and fundraising producer before joining the content production staff in 2004. Whittington's work at KERA has been honored with four consecutive Dallas Bar Association Philbin Awards for Excellence in Legal Reporting and two Best of Dallas Awards from the Dallas Observer. Whittington is also a musician and songwriter and occasionally performs in clubs around Dallas and Fort Worth. He appeared in the 2006 world premiere of Waiting for a Train: The Life and Songs of Jimmie Rodgers at the Undermain Theatre in Dallas.

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