Sara Zia

-- artist, activist, and media diva--has been involved in community organizing, independent media production and distribution for nearly a decade. She was a speaker on the 1998 (?) Prometheus Tour and helped develop materials on how to file comments with the FCC. She also co-founded Free Radio Gainesville, a low-power community radio station in North Central Florida, and was centrally involved in building the Civic Media Center, a resource center housing thousands of independent and self-produced books and videos. She has worked on production projects with Paper Tiger TV, Philadelphia Independent Media Center, the Self-Education Foundation and Scribe Video Center. Currently she works as an assistant to the director of Bread and Roses Community Fund. In her spare time she pursues her degree in Film and Media Arts and American Culture at Temple University and writes long essays on the absorbtion of challenges to hegemony into mass pop culture and other fancy college phrases.

Hannah Sassaman

For over six years, Hannah Sassaman led campaigns against Clear Channel, the National Association of Broadcasters, and for responsible limits on media consolidation in the United States. A key organizer of major FCC localism hearings in San Antonio and Rapid City in 2004, as well as in Nashville in 2006, Hannah travelle to Kenya, building 3 radio stations across Kenya with independent African journalists, community organizations and educational groups. In 2005, she helped coordinate the successful building of an FCC-licensed emergency radio station used by families displaced by Hurricane Katrina. She has been featured in segments on NPR's On the Media, Democracy Now, CNN, C-Span, and a variety of other TV, radio, and print sources. Fresh to Prometheus from the Philadelphia IMC and the University of Pennsylvania, Hannah is banned from all official National Association of Broadcasters events. Hannah is now working as a communications strategist with the SEIU Healthcare Union, and living in West Philadelphia with her partner and dear friends.

Joan D'ark

Joan D'ark is a founding member of the Constructive Interference Collective in Memphis, Tennessee, the owner/operators of Free Radio Memphis and Black Cat Radio. She was a speaker on the 1999 Prometheus Tour and was the main organizer of the Constructive Interference Microbroadcasting Conference in April 1999. She is the veteran of two FCC raids, including a stint of jailtime for broadcasting. Joan is entering Temple law school this fall. She intends to study media law and will re-enter the fray for media and democracy in a few years with her degree in hand. She will continue to help Prometheus when she can in her spare time

Amanda Huron

Amanda Huron co-founded the Mt. Pleasant Broadcasting Club, a neighborhood group in Washington, D.C. that is organizing to apply for a low power license under the FCCs new low power licensing system. She taught radio production in English and Spanish to teenagers at the Cesar Chavez School for Public Policy, the Next Step public charter school, the Asian-American LEAD youth power project, and the Marthas Table community center teen program, all located in Washington, D.C. She was a principal organizer of the Showdown at the FCC! Microradio Conference and demonstration at the FCC and National Association of Broadcasters in October 1998. In addition, Huron served as the national coordinator of the Microradio Empowerment Coalition, which worked with the Prometheus Radio Project to ensure that the FCC created the new low power service in the interest of grassroots communities. She recently sought sanctuary in the graduate program at the University of North Carolina and still periodically consults for Prometheus.

Bruce Hall

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it serves as the webmaster and is otherwise learning the ropes. Bruce is a Mt Pleasant Broadcasting Club gadfly as well. He spent his twenties in an unsuccessful but extremely satisfying attempt to rid the world of nuclear weapons for various DC-based non-profits. Now, Bruce is spending his thirties as budding film maker and student of life in the Big Apple.

Marissa Johnson

In 1997-98 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it worked with the defunct pirate station KAW in Lawrence, Kansas during her first year of college at the University of Kansas. She first became acquainted with Prometheus Radio Project a year later, when she attended a workshop that Pete Tridish and Amanda Huron presented at the conference on Civil Disobedience in DC. After spending time in Detroit, MI, DC, Chiapas, Mexico and some more time where she grew up in Wichita, Marissa moved to Philadelphia to settle down. At Prometheus, Marissa started with applicant outreach and then added funding/grant work to her plate. Now she manages the Prometheus books and assists with a little bit of everything else. She currently attends Temple University, where she is an English major with a Latin American studies minor.

Milena Velis

Milena, our former interim Volunteer and Events Director for the 2nd half of 2007, holds a BA from Swarthmore and recently joined Prometheus Radio Project as the new Volunteer and Intern Coordinator in August of 2007.  A former Prometheus volunteer herself, Milena is excited about continuing her Prometheus habit as a staff member, and helping new people transition into the crazy awesomeness that is Prometheus Radio Project.  Milena has a history of working as a facilitator of communication in many different capacities, including Spanish-English interpreting, linguistic research, and theatrical design.  She believes strongly that creating local, accountable, community-based media organizations is crucial groundwork for bringing about lasting social change.