Raising The Sparks is a project by Mark Gunnery.

Mark Gunnery (he/him) is a historian, musician, writer, and multimedia producer. He is the former Director of Communications and Content for the Jewish Museum of Maryland, where he produced and co-hosted the Disloyal podcast. He is a longtime public radio producer, and has worked at WYPR in Baltimore, at WAMU in DC as a producer for The Kojo Nnamdi Show, and at Center for Emerging Media in Baltimore as Senior Producer of The Marc Steiner Show on WEAA. He also produced Democracy in Crisis, a podcast about the Trump administration. Mark makes electronic and folk music. He has played with a number of different projects, including Riot Folk Collective, The Fools, The Barrage Band Orchestra, Lightnin' Seed, and #PirateRadio. He lives in Baltimore on the lands of the Piscataway and Susquehannock peoples.