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A Disability Activist for over forty years, Bob is Co-Director of the Institute for Disability Access, and an organizer for ADAPT and REV UP Texas (Register * Educate * Vote - Use * Power). He has been host and producer of Barrier Free Futures on KSFR since October 2018.

One day in April of 1996 my friend Greg Miller asked me to give him a ride to the KSFR Board meeting. So I went along and hung out on the side during the meeting. Then after the meeting the chairman of the board came over and we met and started talking and discussing music. He asked me if I had ever done any radio. At that time I had recently sat in with Jack Kolkmeyer doing the World Beat show on KBAC Radio. Then he asked me if I would like to have my own show on KSFR Radio. And that sounded exciting. By the time I got the first show on the air it was the last weekend of May in 1996.

I first worked as a volunteer jazz DJ at KLCC in Eugene, Oregon back in the 80s, as I was getting my MA in English at UO. I had never done anything at all like that before. It was a great station, with a wild mix of music that I had never before heard. It set my standard for eclectic, high-quality public radio.

Marina deBellagente La Palma has written about art for publications in Europe, California, New York, and for THE Magazine in Santa Fe. For some years she co-hosted Other Voices Other Sounds of KUNM, Albuquerque. Her involvement in radio began in the early 1970s at Pacifica in Berkeley, where she also co-founded Kelsey Street Press; in the 1980s she was a singer/performance artist and art critic in Los Angeles. She has degrees in Poetry and Recording Media, a Fine Art, and Comparative Literature. She used to teach college students how to write, and about art history. Chapbooks of her poetry and memoirs have been published by several small presses. She edited The Plenitude: Creativity, Innovation & Making Stuff by Rich Gold for MIT Press. She edited Jacki Apple’s Essays on Performance/Media/Art Culture for Intellect Press in the UK. Her album, Knot-Pop: Songs by IXNA, was released in 2019 by Concentric Circles. An immigrant to the United States from northern Italy, she is also a citizen of the European Union.

A member of Isleta Pueblo, Tara Gatewood has hosted Indigenous Foundation on KSFR since 2009. She was also the host of the nationally syndicated radio show Native America Calling, heard live Monday through Friday on more than 50 US radio stations. Tara has more than 20 years of journalism experience, working as a broadcaster, newspaper reporter and video documentarian across the country. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Aberdeen American News, Transmission Magazine Tara also owned and operated Intu Media which specializes in print, photo and video marketing as well as public relations for Native American organizations and artists. She’s also worked on video documentaries about Native Americans.

I’ve been the host of Tuesday Night at the Opera since early in 2004. My initial involvement with the station was the result of responding to an on-air search for someone with a bit of knowledge of classical music to occasionally fill in on KSFR’s then-running Afternoon Classics. Although I had absolutely no experience in radio—other than listening—I thought hosting a radio program would be both interesting and challenging. And I was correct! The patient folks at KSFR taught me the ins and outs of producing my own programs and eventually I was asked to host Tuesday Night at the Opera. The rest is (minor) history.

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I'm originally from Corrales, New Mexico, and now live in Santa Fe with my wonderful cat "Alice"

Dan Piburn was born in Boulder Colorado in the heart of the sixties, June 8th, 1965. Raised in the small town of Carbondale Colorado, he spent a lot of time with his brother in nature ~ on the Crystal River and in the White River National Forest. His musical origins, he remembers were folk, blues, rock and jazz and later punk rock. During his early teens, his mother worked in a record store that also sold stereo equipment. He remembers the love of vinyl and watching hours of Monty Python in the 70’s on the first big screen tv in town!

Merrylin LeBlanc is KSFR’s resident astrologer, an unusual and unofficial position in a radio station, but like others born when the Sun is in Aquarius, Merrylin’s heart follows a course taking her into unusual situations where she can use her talents at making things better. She has been producing Moonwise and Moon Minute on KSFR since the summer of 2000, after having broadcast the show on KVSF here in Santa Fe beginning in 1993, when she came to New Mexico from Berkeley, California.