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Tazbah McCullah, Diné (Navajo), served for eight years as General Manager of KTNN-AM and KWRK-FM in Window Rock, Arizona, thirteen years as Director of Marketing and Advertising, and Director of Public Programs at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. She assumed her position at KSFR on January 1, 2015. She holds a degree in Journalism from the University of New Mexico.

Lynn Cline is an author and freelance writer who has covered Santa Fe and New Mexico for The New York Times, New Mexico Magazine, Bon Appetit and other publications. She's the author of "Literary Pilgrims: The Santa Fe and Taos Writers' Colonies" and "Romantic Days and Night in Santa Fe," a travel guide. She has lived in Santa Fe since 1993.

Marcela Díaz is the Founding Executive Director of Somos Un Pueblo Unido, a statewide immigrant-based organization that works to promote racial and worker justice in New Mexico. She’s been hosting Nuestra América for over a decade interviewing community members, elected officials, advocates and academics about the struggles and triumphs of workers and families in our America.

Rabbi Neil Amswych studied astrophysics at St. Andrew’s University in Scotland before training to become a Rabbi in London. He served the British community for nearly a decade before moving to Temple Beth Shalom in Santa Fe in 2014, where he soon also became the President of the Interfaith Leadership Alliance of Santa Fe.

I was born in a small town in Pennsylvania. I dropped out of MIT & obtained a BA in English literature from the University of South Florida. Poetry & song-writing became a passion. Life as a hippie turned into life as meditation & music. My taste in music runs the gamut. Everything from corny pop to deep classical. On my show I like to be very eclectic, sometimes including poetry & music from my own 3 albums (Now Here This, Prayer Wheel, Offering). Rock, R&B, jazz, country...You name it! Lyrics with a positive message are featured (e.g. Beatles, Grateful Dead). My commentary is often humorous rather than pedantic. Enjoy the Sound Experience!

I am Desiree Mays, producer of Yoga Moments on Fridays just before 5pm and Sundays just before 8am. The idea for Yoga Moments is to provide a quiet two minutes in busy times to relieve stress and provide a little food for thought. My readings and books come to me and cover all faiths and philosophies from the Dalai Lama to Yoga for Chickens (visualize meditating standing on one leg, chicken-style - Tree pose for those in the know).

Spinifex has been spinning records since he could get his head and hands inside the Sylvania console stereo his parents had in their living room. Spinifex has also been a collector of many types of music, with his music understanding and collection growing exponentially over the years.

A native New Yorker, drummer and founder of the jazz quintet Straight Up, John Trentacosta brought his collective big band and small group experience to New Mexico in 1992. After two decades as the rhythm force behind jazz notables Chuck Wayne, Jimmy Knepper, and the Al Porcino big band, John brought new energy to the New Mexico jazz scene.

Raised in a home with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Amad Jamal, and Milt Jackson cascading from the hi-fi; then older bro’s Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochrane, The Outsiders, Beach Boys, and Trashmen. Loved it all: the sounds, the sway, and the signals. Then on to teen adventures: Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Moody Blues, Cream, Traffic, Jefferson Airplane, the Dead, Buffalo Springfield, Joni Mitchell Pentangle, Floyd, King Crimson and all that would sprout from these associations. A family tree began to form. Then, a momentous 1972, the fifth Beatle, George Martin, produced ‘Icarus’ by the Paul Winter Consort, featuring Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, Colin Walcott, leading the Invisibleman to the group Oregon, and the ECM label (Towner’s first solo release). For over forty years the Editions of Contemporary Music label out of Germany has provided the Invisibleman, and the World, an incredible roster of fine international musicians from jazz, classical, world, and contemporary chamber music. Beginning in the 80s and 90s more and more early music and contemporary classical artists were added to the roster, and from early exposure to Airto and Flora Purim to King Sunny Ade, more and more world music began to be added as well. Robert Fripp and Brian Eno’s ‘No Pussyfooting’ opened up new sonic possibilities in the seventies and the branches created by these two artists continue to flourish to this day. By the late eighties and early nineties what was started by Soft Machine, Eno and others took flower in the electronica explosion – especially in Britain and Europe. The Invisibleman took to it at once, assiduously collecting The Future Sound of London, The Orb, Aphex Twin, and other leading lights of this totally new way to create music.

Susan Ohori pioneered the programming of world music on radio from 1972 - 1977 on Pacifica station KPFA in Berkeley, with her program Last Chants. She served as Music Director there from 1976 - 1977, when she left the Bay Area to research and record Purepecha folk music in Michoacan, Mexico.