People

  • 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
    Announcer

    Anthony Ornellas started at KAWC in June 2017. Along with being a host for All Things Considered, he also does some production work. When he isn't at the radio station, he is busy working toward a Bachelor's in Information Technology.

  • Chip Straley
    Announcer

    Chip Straley is the new kid on the KAWC block.  He is an AWC Theatre Professor Emeritus with a professional theatre career that spans more than 45 years.

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

    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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