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  • Alice Ferris, MBA, CFRE, ACFRE
    Development Director

    Alice Ferris has served as KAWC's Development Director since January 2006. She has more than twenty-five years of professional fundraising experience, not including her start as the "human bubble machine" during Lawrence Welk pledge breaks at...

  • Anthony Ornellas
    Traffic Coordinator

    Anthony Ornellas started at KAWC in June 2017. He previously served as a production assistant and on-air host. He now serves as KAWC's traffic coordinator.

  • Brandon Mejia
    Digital Content Editor

    This Arizona native was born in Tucson and graduated from the University of Arizona in May of 2017 with a degree in journalism.

    During his time at the university, Brandon received the 2017 Excellence in Broadcast Journalism award from...

  • Dave Riek
    General Manager and Host, The Bridge and Morning Edition
    The Bridge, Best of the Village Jazz Series

    Dave Riek has been General Manager at KAWC since January, 2006. He began his work in Yuma as a partnership with NPR member-station, KNAU, at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. After more than a year splitting his time between the two...

  • Jim Anderson, CFRE
    Underwriting Manager

    Jim Anderson, CFRE, has served as Underwriting Manager since January 2006. Jim has more than 25 years of sales and sales training experience and migrated into the nonprofit arena in 2005. In 2010, Jim was selected as the Association of...

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