President – Mary Francis is a retired educator and former NPR Commentator for KGOU/KROU radio. She holds a BFA in Sculpture, an M Ed in Reading and a Reading Specialist Certification from the University of Oklahoma. She spent ten years in small Alaskan villages, two years on the Navajo Reservation and currently resides in Norman, OK. She filed an FCC application for a radio frequency in Oct. of 2007 with the intent of starting a Community Radio Station which focused on local issues, news and music. She has served on the Enforcement Authority, League of Women Voter of Norman Steering Committee, Common Cause Oklahoma Board of Directors, Freedom of Information Oklahoma, and several other civic organizations.

Vice-President – Clemencia Rodriguez is Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma. Clemencia has conducted research since 1984 on community media in different international contexts including Nicaragua, Colombia, Spain, Chile, and among Latino communities in the United States. Her book, Fissures in the Mediascape. An International Study of Citizens’ Media, is widely known in academic circles all over the world.

Evan Stair is an Electrical Engineer providing support for Air Traffic Control Communication Systems with the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation. In addition to ASRC, he has telecommunications and radio experience with Logix Communications, WorldCom, and Oklahoma Gas & Electric. He is Vice President of the Northern Flyer Alliance, a group advocating for Amtrak expansion in Oklahoma and Kansas.

Jay Edwards is a board member of the Norman Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and a staff member both at OU’s Bizzell Memorial Library and the Pioneer Library System.  He has a B.A. in Fine Arts, was a founding member of Red Dirt Improv, and is Artistic Director of Obviously Unrehearsed Improv.