Personalities

Ahmed

You will often find me wandering about town trying to locate coffee shops that stay open after 9:00 pm. There are hardly any. Sheesh! What kind of town is this? Fortunately, I have managed to find a few restaurants that keep their kitchens open till 2:00 am. Hurray!

Al B Ware and Herbert Thomas

Thoughts held in mind produce after thier kind:

Alan Bungue

Becky Warren

Blanche

Bounna Chhun

Brenda Bell Brown

Brenda is a writer, performance, and visual artist.  She possesses degrees from Brown and Hampton Universities in Theatre and Museum Studies, respectively.  Currently enrolled in the Hamline University MFA in Creative Writing program, she plans to culminate her studies with a PhD in communication and theatre.

Brittany Lynch

Brittany Lynch is a 24 artist, activist, and entrepreneur. She has degrees in the Sociology of Law: Criminology, and Deviance with a minor in African and African American Studies. She is the Executive and Administrative Coordinator for Neighborhoods Organizing for Change.

Bunkhean Chhun

Host of Khmers in Minnesota Program

Carla Hagen

Carla Hagen, who grew up on the Canadian border, moved to Mexico City when she was 20 and spent most of the next five years there. It changed her life, rendering her fluent in Spanish and a lover of Latin food, music and culture. After a stay in Texas, where she collected Mexican border corridos and learned to dance cumbia, she returned to Minnesota.

Casey

Charlie Thayer

Colin Robinson

COLIN ROBINSON, host of The Transatlantic Mixtape Of Your Mind, is a Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, England. He has lived and breathed Radio since he was 10 years old!

Cyn Collins

KFAI Spin With Cyn DJ, (and former Dig Up the Roots co-host), Cyn Collins is the author of West Bank Boogie, and a music, arts and culture journalist for various Twin Cities publications such as Star Tribune, City Pages, Twin Cities Daily Planet, TC METRO, Pulse, her blog "Cyndications" and more.

Dan Henry

Record dork, pizza parlor enthusiast and aspiring astronaut. I also like popcorn and baseball.

Dana Bogema

Dana Bogema is a Twin Cities native and bon vivant. She runs DBdesigns, an online marketing business, hosts Bonjour Minnesota, KFAI’s French culture and music program (Tuesdays at 8pm!), and does voice work and acting in a variety of Twin Cities productions.

Dave Roberts

David O'Sullivan

The essence is to expect the unexpected, be surprised by it, go with it, and thereby remain in a state of continuous awe.

Dixie Treichel

Fresh Fruit Co-Host with John Townsend on the Third Thursday of the Month

DJ Izzy

DJ Izzy didn't grow up with FM radio or a cool older sibling, so what he doesn't know about Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, he knows about The Monkees, The Archies, and The Partridge Family.

DJ SLT, ringleader of the apocalypse

DJ SLT is the host of Across The Board, early friday mornings from 2-6am. DJ SLT has had a love affair with Twin Cities radio since the early 1980's. He also had an amazing stint as a sub DJ on a wide variety of KFAI from fall 2004 to spring 2007.

Doug "The Thug" deMille

Douglas Solomon aka Dewglass

e.g. bailey

Multidisciplinary artist, e.g. bailey, is an actor, spoken word artist, filmmaker, playwright and producer. Born in Saclepea, Liberia, he has lived in the United States since 1979.

Ellen Stanley

Ellen Stanley began her radio journey while a student at Oberlin College, where she hosted a women's music program for four years. She has been hosting the long-running Womenfolk since Fall, 2002. As a banjo player, publicist and music writer, Ellen brings an insider's perspective to the music with exclusive interviews, live guests and tasty bits of fun folk trivia.

Eric Fifteen

a.k.a. Eric Cried Softly, Secret Agent Cried Softly, Smoove E Cried Softly Man, and a series of other inaccurate names. Eric likes to tell really annoying jokes that usually involve puns, talk in ridiculous voices and occasional impressions of people, and he loves to play lots of obscure underground rock music that sounds like cardboard.

Eric Mohring

Eric Mohring is a fiddle and mandolin player from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Eric has performed Cajun music for over 20 years. He is a nationally recognized Cajun fiddler whose fluency in French contributes to his authentic Cajun vocals. He has worked as a fiddle instructor at Augusta Cajun Week in Elkins, West Virginia, and at Folklore Village in Dodgeville, Wisconsin.

Eve MacLeish

Eve is a lover of Latin music and culture, having spent many years traveling and living in Latin America, all the while collecting music. She still visits her home in Merida, Venezuela. She started collecting Latin music as a teenager on her first trip to Mexico, then later traveled to Brazil in search of more music and adventure.

Georgia

I host a weekly program called Sonic Pleasure on KFAI.  Since its debut on September 4 2000, the format for the show is playing 60s influenced rock from the 70s to the present from 2 AM to 3:30 AM.  During the second half of the show, I play 1960s garage & psychedelic rock.  I occasionally throw in some surf, electronica and indie pop, even some late 50s stuff.  I also do some video work on

Glen Leslie

A vinyl enthusiast who plays records on the air.

Ian Graham Leask

Ian Graham Leask has been the producer and co-host of "Write On! Radio" for many years. He grew up with magnificent storytellers and has been in the world of literature all his life. He received a masters with an emphasis on writing from the university of Minnesota, where he also worked towards a PhD, an endeavor which has been on hold for many years.

Jacquie "LadyJ Griot" Maddix

Inducted into the 2015 Minnesota Blues Hall of Fame

Lady J Griot & Her Root Doctors 

Blues, History & Spiritualilty

Janis Lane-Ewart

Born and raised in a rhythm and blues-oriented household in Chicago, Janis Lane-Ewart came to her passion for jazz as a young college student and went on to work in arts administration with a jazz focus.

Jelil Abdella

Host of Voice of Oromiyaa

John Allen

Programmer/Host for The Root of All Evil Show

Jonathan

I am either going to or playing a show everynight (when not volunteering @ KFAI). I find local music is the most inspiring to me and music in the Twin Cities is vibrant with such a wide range of styles. I aim to expose the listener to all kinds of local music that they can't hear anywhere else.

Jude Vales

Karl Smelker

Kathy Mouacheupao

Kathy Mouacheupao is a Program Officer for Creative Placemaking with the Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation (TC LISC). She was a 2011 Bush Leadership Fellow researching the Hmong diaspora with an emphasis on arts and culture. Kathy was the Executive Director for the Center for Hmong Arts and Talent (CHAT) from 2005-2011 working at the intersection of arts, culture and community.

Kenna Sarge

North High School graduate
Masters degree, University of Minnesota School of Education
Freelance dance educator and choreographer

KFAI Legacy Project

Koami Darrah

My goal as a volunteer at kfai since 2006 is to bring a different perspective and image of Africa through its music, tradition , culture. Feel free to drop your suggestion at jukeboxafrica@yahoo.com
Merci!

Kristina de Sacramento

Kristina de Sacramento, founder and artistic director of Anda Flamenco Company and School, began her flamenco career while living in Paris and sneaking showers at a dance studio (her only access to that American amenity!) She would also sneak a peek at a flamenco class as she left the studios, and one night, instead of just watching, she walked into tha

Laura Waterman Wittstock

Leigh Combs

Libby Donohue

LIBBY DONOHUE served as the first producer for The Transatlantic Mixtape Of Your Mind, a KFAI Web Exclusive Program hosted by Colin Robinson of Liverpool.

Her ongoing relationship with KFAI began during a road trip in the '90s when Libby tuned her car's radio to 90.3 FM. Soon thereafter she moved to the Twin Cities and started volunteering at the station.

Lolly Obeda

30 years of serving your soul.

Lydia Howell

sTARTING 9/7/2012: CATALYST Expands to ONE HOUR & MOVES to FRIDAYS @ 9 AM

Lynval Jackson

Originally from Jamaica,Lynval moved to the Twin Cities in the mid 1980's.Started on KFAI in the early 1990's with The Dan on Trench Town International on Sundays,the Show later moved to Saturdays and changed the name to Caribbean Jam.In addition to hosting Caribbean Jam,you can catch him on Tuesdays at Bunkers Bar & Grille with The International Reggae Allstars.

Mario Colloly

Mark Slim Stevens

Mason Butler

- Co-host of the Web Exclusive show BELOWtheWASTE, the ongoing story of two tireless seekers of new, forgotten and sometimes painfully obvious sounds. Posted weekly to http://www.kfai.org/BELOWtheWASTE.

Micah Whetstone

Micah serves as Associate Producer & Host of the remarkably interesting Listening Lounge program when Todd Melby is up to no good. Tune in Wednesday nights at 6:30pm to enjoy the show.

Miguel Vargas

Born in raised in Saint Paul, MN, has been involved at the University of Minnesota (1999-2012) earning his undergraduate degree in Studies in Cinema and Media Culture ('05), and working as administrative staff for the Departments of Chicano Studies and American Indian Studies.

Minna Zhou

Minna is an international radio producer/DJ & writer. You can catch her 12-2PM every last Friday of the month djing as DJ MoZho on Groovin Plenty, as well as subbing and guest appearing on various other KFAI shows.

Mr. Music

With a strong passion for radio broadcating and journalism Ethan Horace aka Mr Music has been at KFAI for the past 2 yrs. He has done voice over work as part of the cart crew. Recently he completed his residency show on KFAI called "The Power Hour 1.7. Which was hosted by Dj Enferno. Mr.

News Volunteer

Norton Fortune

Pam K.

Since 1994 Pam K. has been bringing Stone Soup to the air waves from the KFAI studios. Stone Soup airs from 10 a.m. until noon on Wednesday mornings. A great program each week bringing a huge and diverse love of music to you ears! A unique mixture of songs and thoughts from Pam's world entertains you each week on Stone Soup!

Patti Walsh

Patti has served as president of KFAI’s Board of Directors since January of 2015. She has been a volunteer since 1986 and has hosted three rock shows, So What?, Noisefactor 4, and Pop for the Unpopular. She frequently subs on Voice Cried Softly, is an engineer for The Wave Project, and is doing some spinning for KFAI's Vinyl Voices.

Paul Harding

Paul brings you Foreign Currency Sundays at 10am.

He hosted "Radio K International" on Radio K (KUOM) for 16 years during which he immersed himself in international music.

Peter Gokey

Fresh Fruit Co-Host Fourth Thursdays
Community Activist
HIV Prevention Educator
Nurse

Contact:

pgokey@gmail.com

Quinn "Shimmer" Villagomez

Quinn Villagomez a.k.a. SHIMMER - is a true Minnesotan, born and raised right here in the Twin Cities area.

Ramon Hough

Raymond Jackson

Richard Utke

Ron Boogiemonster Gerber

Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber hosted his first radio show in the summer of 1979, worked in college radio in the late '80s, and dabbled in top 40 radio in the early '90s, first as a board operator at 98PXY/Rochester, NY and later as an intern and writer for 93.7 KRQ/Tucson. Ron started Crap From The Past in 1992 while in grad school in Rochester, and brought the show to KFAI in 1998.

Rose Robinson, The Blueslady

Rose was born in Greenville, Mississippi, Queen City of the Delta. She comes from a musical family and played her first guitar at age six. She's experienced cotton fields and jukejoints, spent time with Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, and many more.

Roxanne Anderson

Roxanne Anderson is an activist and lover of art.

Roxanne has been engaged at KFAI for a little over 10 years.  First as an occasional guest on Leigh Combs Fresh Fruit shows.  Then as a regular segment within the broadcast.  Soon after that a regular co-host with Leigh after many years of prompting from Leigh, Dixie, Pam and Patricia, Rox finally got the engineering class completed. 

Ryan Dawes

Salah Barre

Salif Keita

Sean Hansen

Sean Hansen is a Minneapolis native and former engineer for First Person Radio & Radio Pocho.  Since 2012, he has served as executive producer and host of Modern Kicks, which can be heard every Wednesday morning at midnight.  He also writes mysteries under the name of J. D. McGregor.

 

Shashi Gupta

Simon Husbands

Simon is a true Brit from Nottingham, England, having lived in the Twin Cities since 1997. He is a musician, producer and songwriter and performer and whilst he loves music of almost any kind, he especially loves music from his native country. His show, True Brit!

Special Dark

Member of The FLEET DJ'S, Host/Producer of the award winning, THE SESSION MIXX SHOW.

Promoter, Booking Agent, Street Promotions, Performance Set Arranger, Provide Radio Edits...

If you wanted one word that describes Special Dark, “RELENTLESS” would be it.

Steely

"Steely" Dan McAllister has hosted Soul Music programs at four different public radio stations over the past 10 years, including KUMD Duluth, MN; WUPX Marquette, MI; WRHC Three Oaks, MI; and KFAI Minneapolis, MN.

Steve McEllistrem

Steve McEllistrem has been a writer and editor for more than 20 years. He is the author of, among other works, Students with Disabilities and Special Education Law, Deskbook Encyclopedia of Employment Law and Higher Education Law in America. He has been a volunteer at KFAI since 2006.

Tad

The Metal Evangelist

With almost 15 years of on-air experience Bill “The Metal Evangelist” has a distinct style, skill and professionalism that it takes to serve the underground community. Since his 4 years as Loud Rock Program Director of WMUR at Marquette University, Bill has hosted an Internet metal radio show over the last 10 years. Bill has been a passionate metal music fan for 25 years.

Toki Wright

Toki Wright is Twin Cities based international recording artist, music producer, community organizer, and educator.  He has released music on Rhymesayers Entertainment and Soul Tools, charted on iTunes Top 100, been featured on MTV (music videos and MADE coach), and toured the globe.

Tony Paul

Twitch Hylland

Twitch Hylland is a DJ/MC/Spoken word artist from Minneapolis, MN.