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Mark Oswald is a retired and recovering print journalist, an exile from his native Arkansas who has lived and worked in Santa Fe for more than three decades. His newspaper work included stints as a reporter for his hometown Arkansas Gazette and the Santa Fe New Mexican and as editor at the Albuquerque Journal North. Along the way, he managed to amass an extensive collection of records, CDs and tapes and a lot of what the Rolling Stones might call useless information, about musical esoterica. He was co-host for eight years through the 1980s of a punk-meets-blues radio show on Little Rock public radio station KABF. Mark and his wife Ruth Williams have one son, Oscar, a poet and teacher at the University of Idaho with his own public radio music show.

Tom Adler, host and producer of Folk Remedy on Sunday

Anthony ‘Ijah’ Umi grew up in southern New Mexico singing in gospel and soul groups as a child and throughout college. Ijah was a pianist for the ENMU jazz ensemble, attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, played with AZA (reggae) for several years before starting his own band Iyah in 2006. Ijah composes his own music, including vocals, keyboards and percussion. He is retired from State government and has a Master’s degree in Social Work.

15 years ago my brother, Tom, was teaching a course in radio here at the SFCC and worked at the KSFR radio station. It was coming on to winter and he asked me if I could fill in for a couple DJ's who were taking a winters break. I've been a record collector since the late 50s and had a little experience sitting in with a friend on his show "Cracker Barrel" at a college station in St Louis.So before long I had 3 shows going that winter 15 years ago, blues,jazz,and a R&R show ,but I really liked the idea of a "Blue Monday" 7-9 ( no more late nights).I love being a part of KSFR and really enjoy producing shows that are a little different than the usual 'oldies shows'. Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico have a wonderfully diversified listening audience who support the unique programing.

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.