Grant Slater is senior producer for podcasts at the Berggruen Institute, where he manages the production of Futurology, a weekly audio and video podcast focused on fostering ideas that recalibrate our understanding of what's to come. His work applies narrative craft to long-range thinking by shaping and curating public conversations through collaborations with technologists, scientists, philosophers, journalists, artists, and policymakers.

Over the past two decades, his career in journalism has taken him around the world – including to conflict zones in Eastern Europe and the Middle East – to develop award-winning visual and audio documentaries for outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, and Audible. His storytelling often engages with the transitional – the fault lines where present systems strain under emerging futures. He also explores how media can function simultaneously as civic infrastructure, social commentary, and aesthetic practice. He holds degrees in Russian and journalism from the University of Oklahoma and a master’s from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism.

In California's Imperial Valley near the Mexican border, he founded and continues to encourage the growth of 91.1 FM KDEZ the Voice of the Salton Sea, a nonprofit community radio station. Originally a rogue seasonal signal emanating from Bombay Beach, KDEZ now operates as an licensed FM experiment in non-hierarchical, analog communication and provides a container for self-organizing media grounded in the rhythms of place.