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Bill was born and raised in a sod hut on the Kansas plains.
And then he graduated with a degree in clarinet performance from Simpson College in Indianola. While in Iowa, Pearce worked at a commercial radio station playing pop-like music...
Carla Eckels has been an award-winning announcer/news producer for KMUW 89.1FM, Wichita Public Radio for 15 years. Carla also produces a R&B and gospel show Soulsations, Sunday nights at 6 on KMUW. She also hosts Joyful Sounds, a Sunday...
Chandra joined the KMUW staff in January 2010 after many years of being a listener and member.
She is a graduate of Wichita State University and has lived in the Wichita-metro area her entire life.
She loves public radio for its...
Chicago native Chris Heim began a lifelong love affair with radio after wandering into the campus station at the University of Chicago and being unexpectedly offered a music show after an opening developed. She got her first job in radio at one...
Chris Ruder is a Wichita State University student majoring in Integrated Marketing and Communications.
He manages the weekly email, adds program content and other miscellaneous information to the website and maintains the web events...
Denise M. Irwin is an arts activist and loves the vibrant arts community in Wichita. She is currently a member of the Arts Council of Wichita, the Arts Forum, and the Ulrich Museum of Art Salon.
She joined KMUW in 2008 following a stint...
If Fletcher Powell could be someone else, he’d be Errol Morris or Ira Glass. Except younger and better looking.
Since he can’t, he’ll be Fletcher Powell, KMUW producer and announcer. Fletcher came to KMUW in 2009 after five years of...
Frank Dudgeon has worked in radio for more than 40 years, beginning in commercial radio. He began his public radio career in 1989 at WUMB in Boston. Frank worked at KMUW several years ago, went back to Boston for a few years, came to his senses...
A lifelong Wichitan, Heather has a passion and love for learning and education. She is currently studying anthropology at Wichita State University in hopes to one day combine her love of travel and education.
She also loves public radio...
Born in Wichita, Hugo is a media consumption addict. From films to music to news, nothing seems to satiate his rapturous appetite for consuming various methods of information, concepts, and ideas except for public radio.
Picking up the...