Brainstorm Speaker Series: Jad Abumrad

Presented by: Tickets for Jad Abumrad are available now! Center for the Arts, Teton County Library, and The Jackson Hole News&Guide are pleased to present the fourth season of the Brainstorm Speaker Series with support from The Library Foundation and Friends! Please join us November 15th, for an evening with Jad Abumrad! New this year, any seats that remain empty 10 minutes before showtime will be offered to patrons on the standby waitlist. This will help ensure that this free series reaches as many members of the Jackson community as possible. Jad Abumrad MacArthur Fellow Jad Abumrad is the creator and former host of Radiolab, a public radio program broadcast on nearly 600 stations across the nation and downloaded more than 12 million times a month as a podcast. Words Fail Me is a deeply personal meditation on what it feels like to live inside information overload — and what we can learn from the last few times humanity went through this. Traveling through Virginia Woolf’s writing on time and consciousness, Henri Bergson’s philosophy of duration, Delia Derbyshire’s electronic music, and Chopin, Abumrad’s presentation is a meditation on how earlier technological shocks (the telegraph, the radio) reshaped human perception, and what that history might tell us as AI does the same thing again, faster. Abumrad also created More Perfect, a series about the Supreme Court, which the New York Times called “possibly the most mesmerizing podcast.” Other projects include the Vanishing of Harry Pace, Unerased, and Dolly Parton’s America (along with osm Audio’s Shima Oliaee) a Peabody Award-winning 9-part series that explores a divided America through the life and music of one its greatest icons. His podcast Fela Kuti, Fear No Man, about the Nigerian musician and political activist Fela Kuti, won the Peabody Award in the Arts category and was chosen the Best Podcast of 2025 by the New Yorker, the New York Times and the Guardian. His new podcast is The Obit Project hosted by…