Mailing Address

Prometheus Radio Project
P.O. Box 42158
Philadelphia PA
19101
Phone: (215)727-9620 (staff extensions below)
info(at)prometheusradio.org

Staff Contact Info

pete tridish, Director of Electromagnetism : petri AT prometheusradio DOT org (ext.500)

Cory Fischer-Hoffman, Campaign Director: coryfh AT prometheusradio DOT org (ext.501)

Anthony Mazza, Administration Director: anthony AT prometheusradio DOT org (ext.502)

Andy Gunn, Technical and Training Organizer: andy AT prometheusradio DOT org (ext. 503)

Corey Mark, Director of Development and Communications: corey AT prometheusradio DOT org (ext.504)

Andalusia Knoll Station Support Organizer andalusia AT prometheusradio DOT org (ext. 506)

Staff Bios

While some Prometheus members started their voyages on the oceans of aether as pirates to protest media concentration and demand access to the airwaves, the Prometheus Radio Project does not operate any pirate radio stations, nor assist in setting up pirate radio stations. Here's the skinny on who we are.

pete tridish - pete tridish was a member of the founding collective of Radio Mutiny, 91.3 FM in Philadelphia. He is also a founder of the Prometheus Radio Project. In 1997, he was an organizer for Radio Mutiny's demonstrations at Benjamin Franklin's Printing Press -- the station broadcast in open defiance of the FCCs' unfair rules that prohibit low power community broadcasting.. He has been an organizer of “radio barnraisings” in 11 communities around the United States, in which a whole radio station is built by hundreds of volunteers in three days. He actively participated in the rulemaking that led up to the adoption of LPFM, and on the lawsuit Prometheus vs. the FCC, which held back a major round of media consolidation of ownership in the United States. Tridish has helped to build a number of low power radio stations, and provided advice to hundreds. He has done radio trainings in Guatemala, Colombia, Nepal, Tanzania, Jordan and other countries. He has spoken at colleges, coffee shops, living rooms, and even the CATO Institute. He has been interviewed for many dozens of periodicals, news shows, and documentaries. He contributed to articles in the recent books, News Incorporated, and Be the Media. He holds a BA in Appropriate Technology from Antioch College, and he is an SBE certified Broadcast Radio Engineer. Over the years he has been a carpenter, an environmental educator, a solar energy system installer, a squatter, a homeless shelter volunteer and an activist in many social movements since the age of 16.

Cory Fischer-Hoffman - Cory Fischer-Hoffman has returned to her native Philadelphia to join Prometheus, as the Campaign Director, in the struggle to expand Local Community Radio (LPFM). Cory received a BA from the Evergreen State College in the Political Economy of the US Welfare System, Latin American Studies, and Community and Welfare Rights Organizing. After a stint as an independent journalist in Venezuela and throughout Latin America she spent two years in Lawrence, Kansas in a Master's program in Latin American Studies. While in Kansas, she helped found Lawrence Fair Food and organized with the Student Farmworker Alliance. Cory is passionate about drawing stronger connections between local community radio and struggles for economic justice and self-determination.

Anthony Mazza - Anthony received his BAS in Sociology from Temple University in 2000. He began with Prometheus as a volunteer in the Fall of 2002, joining the staff in 2003 as Administration Director. In the following years, he took on the primary responsibility of ensuring a sustainable future for the organization. This has included working with the Board of Directors to establish both short term and long-term development and fundraising goals, as well as organizing day-to-day administrative tasks. With the addition of a dedicated development director in late 2006, Anthony's role has shifted to that of a business director, focusing on office administration and the management of Prometheus' finances. In addition to his work at Prometheus, Anthony is a leading organizer in the Philadelphia Independent Media Center and Radio Volta, a community-based Internet radio station in Philadelphia.

Andy Gunn - Andy joined Prometheus in February of 2005, taking on the primary responsibility of providing technical support to stations and applicants. He also organizes the technical aspects of barnraisings and the other projects which Prometheus takes on. This includes expanding the Technical Services program and creating documentation that people - not just engineers - can use to build their stations and train their staff. Andy believes strongly in de-mystifying the technology that surrounds us, and enabling people to take on technical projects that are an excellent learning experience. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Columbia University in the City of New York. He is a SBE Certified Radio Broadcast Engineer and Certified Networking Technologist.

Corey Mark - After earning a BA in Psychology from Swarthmore College, Corey postponed a prospective career in counseling to understand, first hand, the life issues of those whom he would intend to serve. Motivated by a belief that academic learning would not suffice, he began on a path that would lead him to the conviction that the well-being of greater society must be achieved through fighting for social justice. Drawing from a background of fundraising and organizing experience, Corey joined Prometheus in December of 2006 to advance the organization's modes of communication and to broaden the scope of Prometheus' development efforts.

Andalusia Knoll - Andalusia Knoll got her start in the radio world as a late night punk rock DJ and has since expanded her love of the broadcast medium to Station Support Organizing with the Prometheus Radio Project. When she’s not helping people start and maintain radio stations she is reporting for the worker-run daily international news program Free Speech Radio News (www.fsrn.org) and serving on FSRN’s Steering Committee. Through her radio work she hopes to expose the racism and abuses inherent in the Prison Industrial Complex, support communities fighting displacement and struggling for self-determination and also broadcast amazing international hip hop. Andalusia has worked with radio stations around the globe from the youth led Wayna Tambo in El Alto, Bolivia to Indymedia in Occupied Palestine. When she’s not doing anything related to radio, Andalusia enjoys riding her bicycle and teaching others how to repair and maintain their bicycles.