Communications/Media Relations

Professional Experience

Interlochen Public Radio

*/**** - **/**** ******* Edition Host and Reporter

Hosted NPR's Morning Edition, four morning newscasts during

ME-including writing and reporting, while providing weather

and local event information. Produce Q & A's on authors,

doctors and artists. Produce features on diverse topics:

environment, politics, rental housing and the local food

movement.

WKNO-FM

2/2008 - 7/2012 News Director

Oversaw and implemented change in the WKNO's award-winning

shop from two newscasts per day to a feature-driven

newsroom. Produces in-depth features and spots, including

preparation and posting stories to the Web. Instrumental

in creating a story exchange system with public radio

stations across Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. Runs

two-person newsroom, selects stories from story exchange,

and commissions stories from stringers. Files spots and

occasional features for NPR. Occasional contract

production for BBC Americana. Posts stories to the station

website, using Core Publisher and Public Interactive's

content management systems. Write simple html code and

provides photos to go with the web stories.

9/2005 - 2/2008 Production Manager/Operations Assistant

Supervise, assign and edit enterprising features, and

schedule for air. Produce features, specials, commentaries,

Memphis Moments, Memphis Symphony Radio Hour, StoryCorps

Memphis and listener testimonials. Produced Smart City, a

nationally syndicated program. Produced daily and weekly

promos. Hosted ATC 9/05 through 6/06. Proficient in Adobe

Audition 3.0. Engineered ISDN's and other contract

production. Worked in collaboration with GPB and WBHM to

create the Southern Radio Network, which we leveraged to

secure funding from NPR to bolster and improve news making

and editing across the South. Filed stories for Kentucky

Public Radio, NPR, and Voice of America.

KHSU-FM

8/2004 - 8/2005 Production Associate/Board Operator/Host

Hosted PRI's The World, NPR's All Things Considered, and

the BBC World Service. Worked with Program Director and

Morning Edition host to schedule and capture national

feeds, light production, and engineering locally produced

election debates. Proficient in Cool Edit and the ENCO

satellite system. Trained volunteers to board op.

KHSU Experience Continued:

10/1998 - 8/2005 Host, The Ramblin' Folk Show

Two-hour folk show that included live interviews with

musicians to promote their upcoming concerts and new

releases. The reason it was called The Ramblin' Folk Show

is because the music stretched across many folk genres from

contemporary and traditional folk to old time, blues,

rockabilly, Americana, Cajun, Zydeco, bluegrass, and Alt-

country.

5/1999 - 3/2001 Substitute Board Operator/Host PRI's The World and NPR's

All Things Considered.

3/2000-3/2001 Production Engineer, Native Pulse!, a 30-minute public

affairs program that explores issues in Indian Country,

from the Human Genome Project, to uranium mining, language

revitalization, basket-making, and the Permanent Forum on

Indigenous Issues at the United Nations.

5/1999 to 4/2001 Volunteer Coordinator, KHSU-FM. Developed and implemented

volunteer recruitment strategy, designed and facilitated

volunteer orientation, trained volunteers as on-air talent

and as production engineers. Worked closely with Program

Director and Station Manager to coordinate operation of

volunteer-run public radio station. Supervised student

assistants in general office duties, remote broadcast

engineering, and production work. Designed audience

research survey. Provided administrative support to the

Community Advisory Group. Produced monthly staff

newsletter. Created and maintained volunteer database.

Coordinated and helped manage pledge drive. Did remote

broadcasts on a variety of community health issues and

political candidate forums as part of the Health Dialogues

initiative.

11/1996-Fall 1998 Host, Whiskey B4 Breakfast, a three-hour, theme-

based eclectic music show that included road trips, the

weather, spoken word, etc.

6/1996 to 1/1997 Board Operator/Host, PRI's The World and NPR's All

Things Considered

Seventh Generation Fund

5/2001 to 1/2004 Program Associate, Seventh Generation Fund, Arcata, CA

Assists with the Seventh Generation Fund's Program Office

activities and community support strategy including

outreach to Native communities and projects, program

planning, grant writing, administrative support and

oversight, grants review, technical assistance, and issue

advocacy support. Participant in the 1st InterTribal

Native Radio Summit in June 2001, media outreach

coordinator and liaison between potential and current

Native media projects and SGF.

Humboldt State University

1994 - 1996 Research Assistant, The Altruistic and Prosocial Behavior

Institute

Transcribed interviews, syllabi, test materials, lecture

notes for Dr. Samuel P. Oliner. Also conducted long-form

interviews throughout the area for a research project about

attitudes and prejudice in Humboldt County, California.

Bay City News Service

7/1993-5/1994 Sonoma County Bureau Reporter - Bay City News, San

Francisco.

Covered breaking news, including murders, kidnappings, and

fires among other stories for Bay City News, a Bay area

wire service. Also covered city and county politics and

the courts of Sonoma County.

Russian River News

8/1992-8/1993 Staff Reporter & Photographer -- Russian River News

Covered local politics, including the Regional Water

Quality Control Board, the newly formed public water

district, the fire district, crime, and characters of the

Russian River community.

Awards

2012 Gangs in the City

Public Radio News Directors, Inc - 1st Place News Series

2012 Gangs in the City

Green Eyeshade - Southeast Division of SPJ

Public Service in Radio, 3rd Place

2012 Gangs in the City

Edward R Murrow - News Series, Region 8 RTNDA

2010 Memphis Fights Back Against Foreclosure

Green Eyeshade Award - Southeast Division of SPJ

Public Service, Radio, 2nd Place

2008 An Unjust Epidemic: AIDS and African American Women

Public Radio News Directors Association, Inc.

Division C - Enterprise/Investigative, 2nd Place

2/7/07 The Half-Way Bus Station

NPR Station Showcase with PRX

Education

8/1998 Master of Arts Degree in Sociology

Humboldt State University

Thesis: The Media's Influence on Welfare Recipients' Self

Perceptions

5/1992 Baccalaureate of Arts Degree in Art

San Francisco State University

Emphasis: Painting and Photography

Honors: Cum Laude

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