Staff

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Name: Anne Cadigan.

 

 

Basic audio enthusiast here, glad to have a forum to upload some of my work. I record with an m-audio microtrack and edit digitally online using Pro Tools. Graduate of the radio program at The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. Currently producing an "Intern Edition" two-hour broadcast to air on 89.5/:Vocalo.org at the end of August.

 

 

adam

I'm the production co-ordinator (coordinator if you're European) for Vocalo.org. You'll find me in the booth, in the field, in a bunch of meetings and, hopefully, in a small space in your heart. I help the producers produce and orhestrate some behind the scenes-type stuff. And I edit a lot of tape.

In my life outside of Vocalo (it can happen from time to time...) it's still all audio all the time. I operate Prize Beagle Recording, a smallish analog and digital recording studio in downtown Chicago, which specializes in working with home recordists and local bands. I'm also a drummer and bass player. I have two cats, am step-dad to two dogs, and have over 80 paintings of Snoopy on black velvet.

aejay

I live in Chicago, but I am from New Orleans. I am a radio broadcast student @ Colombia College. I love telling stories and getting to know other people's stories. I think the more we learn by sharing each others thoughts, ideas, and experiences, the better the world will be for it. Oh and I am currently an intern @ Vocalo.org

Amber

Amber is a video and performance artist also working in photography. She received an MFA from SAIC after working in the fashion industry. Recent venues of her video work include Museum of the City of Skopje in Macedonia and the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago. Her work is also included in the Museum of Contemporary Photography's MPP Collection.

ayana

Ayana was the host of Chicago Public Radio's Global Overnight. She developed the music and later served as program director for a radio station in Macomb, IL. Ayana also contributed to our project during the critical development phase (the Secret Radio Project). A DJ and music historian, her passion is collecting records (LPs & 45s) and sharing the stories behind them, especially those recorded locally.

Ben

Benjamin, or Ben, as he is more commonly known, is the high-powered, jet-setting, ultra-glamorous Vocalo.org midday intern. Besides his fabulous life interning in public radio, Ben is a sequential art student at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Ben's artwork is acclaimed for it's total disregard for line, shape, form, color, texture, value and space. His heroes include Thomas Jefferson, Marcel Duchamp, and Batman. He hates all music except for rap and country.

bibiana

The Doctrix-- is a clinical/community psychologist and personal coach. She launched a personal coaching service for bicultural professionals seeking to expand their personal and professional potential. Bibiana was born in Medellín, Colombia, and has lived in the US for the past 22 years. She's still very Colombian!

brian

Brian - In the comedy world he's known as Brian Babylon, and host a bi monthly stand-up show in Bronzeville. He's also an experienced media director.I LOVE HIP HOP+MAKIN BEATS+MAKIN JOKES+ROCK N ROLL+WORLD TRAVEL+YOU!

Chris

:V Assistant /Host producer, Resident musician/producer CC - Chris is a veteran musician/composer producing out of Vanedawg Studio and "The Factory" at :V. CC freelances at various studios and venues. Clinician and product specialist for Warwick Basses and Amps. Notable projects are: Crawl, Kick the Cat, Drop Q, LOTC. A Multi instrumentalist (primary a bassist/singer), CC also play bass fiddle, guitar, keys, drums and percussion. Contributing composer for HARPO Studios.Music. Currently finishing Graduate work in Music at DePaul University

dan

Dan is an award-winning journalist, and has also worked as a performer and a teacher. He's written for the Chicago Reader, Crain's Chicago Business and other publications, and he taught journalism for several years at Columbia College Chicago. (Ask him about the class where students pulled campaign-finance information about local politicians. Did you know that Chicago Alderman Willam Banks drives a Jaguar? Hey, it's a campaign expense, apparently. Year-round.) Dan, a Chicago native, also started Redmoon Theater's School Partnership Program and serves on the board of the Albany Park Theatre Project.

darlene

Darlene Jackson – is an internationally celebrated DJ/Producer and owner of the record label, D'lectable.

She has been featured in Billboard, Spin and International DJ among others.

In addition, Darlene is a freelance writer who has written for The Chicago Tribune, Rockpile, Urb, Venus and Metromix.com.

An active member of NARAS (the Grammy's), Darlene works closely with the Chicago Chapter.

Erik

Intern with the evening team. Interested in music and queers! www.thinkpinkradio.com

jesse

Jesse first got on the mic of a community radio station in 1993 and has been hooked ever since. She has been on the airwaves of WBEZ and KQED, and brought home an Associated Press Award while serving as News Director at WVFS. Her interest in radio has grown to an interest in sound art, and she now works with both recorded sounds and kinetic sound sculpture. You can check out her artwork here and at Favorite Chicago Sounds, an online archive she created of the favorite sounds of Chicago residents.

The daughter of a Japanese mother and a Caucasian-American father, Jesse grew up at Disney World (aka Orlando), and has lived in Tokyo, Yokohama, San Francisco, and Chapel Hill, where she got a Master's degree studying Asian American identity in documentary video. Jesse has always wanted to live in Chicago, but never thought she'd make it thru the winters. She was happy to discover that she could survive, with the help of a good pair of ski pants.

kabuika

Kabuika is a Congolese filmmaker and journalist based in Chicago. She explores stories from the African Diaspora and is the founder of Immig-Art, a community art project where immigrants express their experience and opinion visually.

LadyTwist

LadyTwist *AkA* Rico J. or Twizzle (as she's called by fans) is an up and coming Hip Hop artist/Comedian from the South Shore area of Chicago's southeast side. When she's not "getting her Vocalo on" she's either in the studio making music, reading Sidney Sheldon novels, teaching her miniature Dachshund to perform human feats or daydreaming about her Grammy acceptance speech. A Journalism student, LadyTwist is a fun-loving and outgoing person who has yet to perfect the ability to interact with human beings without smiling or provoking laughter. You can get a full uncensored dose of her on Egotrip's Miss Rap Supreme airing every Monday night at 10/9PM Central on Vh1 ...

Lisette

Single mom of three, recent graduate of Northeastern Illinois University. Just trying to find my niche. I know how hard it was to be a teen, and more than anything I want to save young people from themselves.

lloyd

lloyd (lloydski) is just this substitute host who fills in now and then. at least that's what he'd like everyone to think. truth is he's the boss of all hosts. he got the job mostly by working hard and growing old. previous jobs lloyd has held: house painter, office clerk, teacher, musician, director of an off-campus arts program. for fun he hangs around home with his wife and dog, plays in a band called funkadesi, and works as a stringer for the obscure news. he lives in the burbs and enjoys it immensely.

Luis

Luis is an award winning Chicago actor, producer, and filmmaker. Born of mixed Latino parents (Puerto Rican father, Colombian mother) and raised in Chicago's northside (Rogers Park, Albany Park, Humbolt Park). Somewhere along the way he became facinated with watching the urban surroundings change around him first hand. After directing and producing the legendary Chicago Hip-Hop freestyle battle documentary known as Rhyme Spitters, Luis brings his talents and abilities to Vocalo.org to learn, along with the rest of us, what are Northwest Indiana (NWI)and Chicagoland stories, what is NWI and Chicagoland music, and oberve first hand the media revolution of the new millenium.

navraaz

 

After wandering around the world as a nomad, Navraaz is back in the suburbs of Illinois with her family. She is the lead singer for the Chicago based band, Funkadesi, and enjoys being able to reflect on her experiences within her music. There is a great sense of comfort in returning home for her as she is now able to appreciate certain nuances of the American life (and life in general) that she had not noticed before. She looks forward to her experiences with Vocalo and hopes that she will be able to provide opportunities for the communities to speak of themselves and their lives. Thus, providing herself and the Vocalo community the ability to embrace infinite expressions of vast minds.  

Robin

Robin is an artist and radio producer based in Chicago. Much of her work, including the hour-long documentary Reconstructing Providence, deals with the complex lives of post-industrial cities. Prior to joining :Vocalo.org Robin was a producer for the public radio show Open Source in Boston and an artist-in-residence at AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island.

 

sarah.e.lu

I freelance for the :V. I jockey the computer in the studio, extracting the good stuff that gets caught in the interweb for our hosts. I also make radio and teach people how to make radio.

Shannon

When I was 6 I believed (truly truly) that I was the reincarnation of Joan of Arc. I think its because I was small, but wanted so badly to be tough. That's still true. I am also the Online Community Manager for this fine site.

In the past I have taught audio documentary to teens, worked as freelance audio producer, and served as the Your Services Coordinator for the Arab American Action Network.

Shantell

Shantell is an Assistant Host Producer for Vocalo who likes crab legs and hot tea. She truly enjoys learning about new and interesting people. Shantell is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism where she finished at the top of her class in 2007. Before joining Vocalo, Shantell interned at Chicago Public Radio's Art Architecture and Culture Desk on the McCormick Tribune Scholarship. When she's not on the air, you'll most likely catch this stringer chilin with friends or stalking some poor soul to be a guest on the show.

steve

Steve Walsh is an award winning print journalist from Northwest Indiana. The Post-Tribune in Gary sent him to Iraq in 2003 and again in 2005. He covered the Indiana Statehouse through three governors. His full-time career began with the Vidette-Messenger in Valparaiso, IN.

Tom

Tom is an actor, musician and filmmaker, and a Host/Producer at Vocalo.org. His comedies have appeared at the Chicago Outdoor Summer Film Festival and the Chicago Short Comedy Film and Video Festival. He has played in Clint Eastwood, Meat the Head, Three Monks and Who Am I, and other bands, including Sweaterhead and Orange Pokey. He is an ensemble member at the Piven Theatre.

usama

Usama was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1969 and spent his formative years living between United States and the Middle East. His work in film and video has been screened at numerous film festivals and venues across the globe. He is the recipient of a generous 2005 grant from the Creative Capital Foundation for the Arts and a Playboy Foundation Award, as well as the winner of the Creative Promise Award at Tribeca All Access in NYC. An interview with Usama appears in Studs Terkel's book Hope Dies Last. Feature articles have been written about his work in such places as the Chicago Tribune, Time Out, and Variety, and he has made appearances on various television and radio news programs. In early 2004 Usama and his wife returned to his birthplace in Iraq to shoot his first feature documentary titled Nice Bombs. Usama is also a life long painter and illustrator working in watercolors and inks.

 

 

Vanessa

Comedienne/Actress Vanessa Fraction puts on display the “beauty of comedy.”

Vanessa performs in clubs and venues across the country and internationally. She has been a finalist in the Bay Area Black Comedy Competition and was chosen for NBC’s Standup for Diversity Showcase. Vanessa is featured in the hit movie BarberShop 2 and performs on Martin Lawrence Presents, “1st Amendment Standup” (STARZ), Bill Bellamy’s, “Who’s Got Jokes” (TVONE), and the new season of Russell Simmons’ “Def Comedy Jam” (HBO).Her wit serves as a platform to entertain all, she will tickle your funny bone and touch your heart

vharris

Vanessa, or just Harris if you’re nasty, is an ex-advertising manager, current musician, fashion designer, lover, fighter and fan of one eyed cats. When she is not working out the details of the latest Vocalo.org initiative, you can find her writing new tunes with Das Empire, nurturing her many plants, watching horrible movies, whipping up some silly outfit from thrift store finds or dancing around her apartment to David Bowie tunes turned up really, REALLY loud.

vocalo

Contact the Vocalo staff:

Online Community Manager: shannon[at]vocalo.org

General Manager: wendy[at]vocalo.org

Content Director: Lloyd[at]vocalo.org

Project Manager: vanessa[at]vocalo.org

Production Coordinator: adam[at]vocalo.org 

report a problem: info@vocalo.org

wendy

 

I'm the General Manager of Vocalo.org. What a privilage to work along side a talented staff and more than 2,500 creative and talented online contributors. This is the beginning of our journey here on Vocalo.org. Soon we'll be increasing the signal power to bring the FM broadcast to more of Chicago and better serve the people of Northwest Indiana.

Did you know we've broadcast more than a thousand user contributed submissions? Get in on the action! Take a listen to our short audio "How To" which will provide you with all you need to get going with YOUR contributions to the broadcast. This is YOUR service, your station. We play your stuff!