Ibrahim Abdurrahim

Dave Adelson

Brian Allen

Lee Azzarello is a software artist who develops and uses open source software. He participated in installations and presentations in Finland, Austria, Israel and New York. Lee is currently working on an embedded computer for Internet radio called Pandora. His primary focus is communications and transmissions across hybrid media.

Behr

Cherrie Blackfeather

Jonathan Brandt has been studying and producing independent media since 2004 and has a BA in sociology. He is from Washington DC and now lives in Portland where his show, "Got Soul Radio?" appears on portland.indymedia.org. Jonathan's interests include public policy, social justice, environmental stewardship, and music.

Andrea Cano

Carlos Chavez has volunteered in the news department of KBOO Radio for over four years as an engineer, anchor, field reporter and in minor editing. Currently he produces and hosts one of the KBOO's newest public affairs programs in the morning titled Xicanismo. It is a cultural talk show that focuses on the unique culture of the Chicano/a. He was born in San Jose, California and have lived in the Pacific NW for about 11 years now.

Kristiana Clemens

Candace Clement

Francisca Cortez

Michael Couzens

Kate Coyer

Amy Dalton is an organizer and writer living in Portland, OR, and attending seminary at the Northwest House of Theological Studies. She has volunteered with the Indymedia network since 2000 and is currently on the editorial team of the US site. Amy has worked professionally as an editor with Current History magazine, and done volunteer and consulting work with a range of media projects, including the Prometheus Radio Project and the Philadelphia Public School Notebook.

Barbie-Danielle deCarlo started at KBCS as an avid listener then moved in on the volunteer action as well as took the basic broadcasting class (thanks, Mom!) and hit the airwaves starting with the overnight shift...Through various evolutions in the community radio world along with some live (yes, live!) air checks she, along with five others, hosts a global music afternoon show and also serves as one of three music directors at the station, and, is also active in developing and implementing a cultural awareness equity model for the station.

Eduardo Delanderos-Tierre

Nijmie Dzurinko

Maria Eraña is Director of Broadcasting of Radio Bilingüe, a network of six FM community stations serving California's main agricultural valleys. Maria directs and manages all aspects of the organization's radio station operations, oversees local programming in the San Joaquin Valley, and overall satellite programming offered to around 90 affiliate stations in the U.S and Mexico.
Maria worked many years in Radio Bilingüe's News Department as a producer and reporter. She also has experience as an immigrant rights advocate at the San Diego-Tijuana border region, and working with arts organizations in the area.

Leslie Fiedler

Judy Fiestel's background is that of an educator. Seven years ago she got hooked on community radio at KBOO in Portland. Having her son hang out with her at the radio station inspired her to start the KBOO Youth Collective- now celebrating over 4 years on the air. Last summer she worked with a youth radio group in Mexico helping them to develop programming to disseminate sexual health and reproductive rights information to rural communities.

Bruce Fife is in his fifth year as president of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 99. He was elected to that position after serving on the Executive Board for several years. He spent 25 years as a "working class" musician, 20 years of which were in clubs, on the road, five hours a night, five nights a week, 50 weeks a year. As of late, he has been focused on Media Reform, specifically radio reform, and has been involved with informal challenges to Federal Communication Commission (FCC) License Renewals of 3 radio station in Portland, OR. His "reform" goals are to open up access to local radio for local musicians.

Hugo Flores

Alfredo Fuentes

Peter Graff

Allan Gomez

Melody Gonzalez

Erez Gudes has participated in helping build various international radio projects. He produced the video "Low power to the People", about the Prometheus Radio Barnraising in Nasheville, TN in 2005.

Gray Haertig

Evan Henshaw-Plath is a long time indymedia and technology activist who dabbles in radio. He was the lead developer building out the internet podcasting site, odeo.com and is currently working on two books for O'Reilly and Associates, Testing Ruby on Rails about web development and the Asterisk Cookbook about emerging open source telephony applications.

Larry Kleinman

Maryanne Knorzer

Alan Korn is an attorney based in San Francisco with a law practice emphasizing art, entertainment, intellectual property and business law issues. He has lectured extensively on copyright law issues, authored a monthly column on legal issues for musicians, and is featured in the documentary film Sonic Outlaws by Craig Baldwin addressing fair use issues arising at the intersection of copyright law, free speech and contemporary artistic expression. Alan Korn also sits on the steering committee of the National Lawyers Guild Center on Democratic Communication. He has worked on microradio and Low Power FM issues since 1991, and is the author of the initial legal arguments used by Mbanna Kantako, Stephen Dunifer and others challenging the FCC's ban on low-power community radio.

Jonathan Lawson is co-founder and Executive Director of Reclaim the Media, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization promoting community media, media literacy and media policy reform. RTM has played a catalytic role in the growth of a national movement focused on democratizing media policy. Jonathan also directs organizing communications for the Washington Federation of State Employees/AFSCME. He is a board member of the Washington News Council and an advisory board member for the Consumers Union's Hear Us Now project. He is a four-year veteran of the Independent Media Center movement, and has worked in community radio since 1986, currently producing the weekly creative music program Flotation Device on KBCS. His articles on media issues have appeared in numerous publications including Clamor, Adbusters, YES!, and Z Magazine, and his photographs have been published in East Bay Weekly and Time Magazine. Jonathan holds a Masters degree in Theological Studies from Harvard University.

Sara Lerner is a producer at KUOW Public Radio in Seattle, Washington. She's spent about a year and a half in different parts of Latin America but mostly Costa Rica. She is pretty damn excited about this weekend because her radio and Spanish-speaking worlds are colliding, and she says that's: fantastic, lovely, and beautiful.

Vinny Lombardo

Maria de los Angeles is a Venezuelan social communicator focused in social journalism; she has worked in newspapers; also at the national office of Radio Fe Y Alegria coordinating the network of indigenous radio stations. Producer of a documentary video about the struggles of the Pemonton (indigenous group located at the border Venezuela-Brazil-British Guyana) against some State development projects. Specially interested in social movements and its connection with popular communication and in the representation of indigenous identities in times of “Globalization”. Currently she is working at Casa de Esperanza with Latin women victims of domestic abuse.

Darcy MacNamara

John Mendez

Hozkar Morales is the Director of Programming and Audience Promotion at KPCN.

Alex Nogales is President & CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition. Among other campaigns, he has led noisy demonstrations against ABC and its parent company, Disney, for refusing to hire Latinos in any significant numbers, and intensified the dialogue with local stations across the country to force them to hire Latino reporters and anchors. Currently Nogales is leading the National Latino Media Council’s fight to force the Nielsen Research Company from undercounting Latinos in both English and Spanish language television. Nogales believes that the inclusion of Latinos in television is not just simply about jobs in the industry. Because television is the most powerful medium in the nation, it tells us all who we are, what we are and how much we are worth.

Edith Quiroz

Erin Raether is a founding member of the Chicago-based collective, Radios Populares (RaPo). RaPo is a solidarity organization that provides assistance in the form of low-power FM radio equipment and training. Erin has worked with different community-based organizations giving popular education workshops on issues like school governance and privatization of education, and is now studying to be a nurse to really get a sense of what privatization can do.

Romeo Ramirez

Libby Reinish

Sabrina Roach does development and outreach work at KBCS Community Radio in Bellevue, near Seattle, Washington. She's spent time making and teaching radio -now, how to pay for it without selling out?

Margo Robb began exploring the world of radio in Madison, Wisconsin at the community radio station, WORT. She first volunteered for "In Our Backyard," the local news program (which is shockingly still on the air 11 years later) and later she worked as the news and public affairs director. Then, after a short stint at Wisconsin Public Radio (as a part time reporter and weather girl), Margo moved to Massachusetts to get her master's in Communication at UMass-Amherst. Six years later, she's still attempting to finish her thesis on the low power radio and the public interest. While in Northampton, she worked with a group to apply for a low power station, WXOJ, which went on the air last summer during a Prometheus barnraising. She currently lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband and two daughters.

Gaba Rodriguez

Anita Rogers

Luz Ruiz

Rupert Russo is an organizer for Independent Media Center of Washington DC He spearheads work on their audio streams during large demonstrations and their website. Rupert is also known to climb tall things on occasion and drop banners off of the side.

Timo Russo

Julie Sabatier is a writer and independent producer. She is also a reporter for Free Speech Radio News. Her half-hour show – DIY, Portland -- airs monthly on KBOO and is podcast through iTunes and Radio4All (www.radio4all.net). This is her first radio barnraising.

Dardo Salas

Ana Marttina Rivas Salinas

Milton Sanchez

Hannah Sassaman assists with program coordination, fundraising, outreach, and networking at the Prometheus Radio Project. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, and then held a resident fellowship at the Kelly Writer’s House. She brings extensive and varied skills and experience in writing to Prometheus, and has begun the long task of integrating herself in the flamboyant world of grassroots radio. She writes and helps to produce radio plays with Radio Volta.

Sakura Saunders has been involved with community media for the past 7 years, working in college, community and low power radio. She was the program director and a dj at KDVS, a college radio station in Davis, CA, where she first discovered the scale of the new music that was being ignored by commercial radio. Ever since, she has sought to educate others on the incompetence of the music industry, the motives of mainstream radio, and the joy of playing and discovering new music.

Shivaani Selveraj

Don Sevilla

Trillium Shannon

Jeff Shaw

Steph99 is a Unix System Administrator by day, and dabbler in all things curious and fun by night. While sysadminning, she spent many years as an club dj, and before that, was deeply involved with college radio. Her role at branraisings is an cross between computers, audio, and teaching, but her most important task is making mimosas in the morning.

In the West Philadelphia community she volunteers with the Lancaster Ave Autonomous Space (LAVA), and the Alpha neighborhood computer lab and Radio Volta internet radio station housed within. She is currently pursuing a Master of Environmental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania part time. She is very proud of the fact that she keeps an RJ45 cross-over coupler in her purse and will totally show it off if you ask her about it.

Sophia Suhu

Sue Supriano has been the Host/Producer of the half hour interview radio show, Steppin' Out of Babylon, for 20 years in addition to other radio shows & documentaries. She lived in Berkeley, Ca. for over 40 years and was part of KPFA (Pacifica), Free Radio Berkeley, Berkeley Liberation Radio and had a show about low power fm radio called "Rebel Radio". It was broadcast on Radio for Peace International where she has had a regular show for 18 plus years. She was also active with indymedia in the Bay Area. Sue has recently moved to Eugene, Oregon where she continues her show on the internet at http://suesupriano.com

Pete Tridish is one of the founders of pirate station Radio Mutiny, 91.3 FM in Philadelphia, and its legal successor RadioVolta.org. He is also a founder of the Prometheus Radio Project, an organization that organizes for low power radio and provides free assistance to LPFM applicants. He actively participated in the FCC rulemaking and the grassroots organizing campaign that led up to the adoption of LPFM. He tours the country regularly to help start community radio stations and fight for democratization of media speaking at colleges, coffee shops, living rooms, garages and even the CATO Institute.

Ericka Tucker

Todd Urick

Honna Veerkamp has been a volunteer at KBOO community radio in Portland, OR for 4 years, and currently works with Circle A Radio. This 4-member collective produces an hour-long, twice-monthly, public affairs show for KBOO, that is dedicated to social justice in Portland and around the world. Honna is about to embark on a 6-month internship in Costa Rica, where she will write for Mesoamerica, a journal of Central American news and analysis.

Tom Voorhees has 45 years of experience in communications project management in Global fiber marine cable systems, satellite uplinks and protected regional microwave networks. Significant past project involvement in the facilities startup of the Independent Media Centers and consulting with the Sandinista civil infrastructure for the maintenance of Electric Power, Telecommunications and Radio facilities. Development of affordable backup long distance communications facilities for emergency community radio station networking.

Martha Wallner

Kristen Walsh

Erin Yanke

Erika Zacharias