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Staff List
| Gillian Anderson | Development Director | | | | Kat Ariano | Production Assistant | | | | Barbara Bashar | Business Manager | | | | Suzanne Bona | Sunday Baroque Host | | | | David Bouchier | Sunday Matinee Host/Commentator | View Bio | | David began as a print journalist in England, and later taught university there for almost 20 years. After coming to the United States in 1986, he continued to teach, and joined WSHU as a weekly commentator in 1992, becoming host of Sunday Matinee in 1996. His latest book of essays, A Few Well Chosen Words, was published in 2007. His other books include The Song of Suburbia, The Cats and the Water Bottles, and Writer at Work. He lives in Stony Brook, New York, and sometimes in France, with his wife, who is a professor at SUNY Stony Brook, and two un-musical cats. |
| | Gary Brandt | Major Gifts Officer | | | | Julie Freddino | Production Director/Senior Producer | | | | Shaun Gerien | Long Island Reporter | View Bio | | WSHU's Long Island reporter Shaun Gerien has won more than 30 journalism awards since joining the station in 1991. He has received ten FOLIO Awards from the Long Island Coalition For Fair Broadcasting - more than any other radio reporter in the NYC - Long Island market. Shaun was elected to the Board of Directors of The New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association in 1999. |
| | Walt Graham | Accoustic Connections Host | | | | Shelley Hassman Kadish | Reporter/Newscaster | View Bio | | Shelley Hassman Kadish has had a career in broadcasting spanning 25 years, beginning with WWUH-FM, The University of Hartford's radio station. She moved from there to commercial radio, learning the ropes from the ground up at a variety of small radio stations around Connecticut. She was Afternoon News Anchor at WPOP Hartford, an all-news CBS affiliate. Shelley began living the commuter's life in 1990, traveling daily to Manhattan to work as an anchor and producer for The Financial News Network's radio network. When FNN was bought by rival CNBC, she returned to Connecticut and public radio. She has been with WSHU for 11 years, as a host for All Things Considered, reporter, newscaster and a frequent contributor to National Public Radio. Over the years she has gained awards, war stories and hopefully, wisdom. |
| | Mark Herz | Reporter/All Things Considered Host | View Bio | | Mark started his romance with journalism in his last semester at Yale, where he majored in linguistics. Then, it was on to Columbia for a M.S. at the Graduate School of Journalism, where he reported from ground zero on Sept. 11. He returns home to Connecticut after a five year stint in northern Arizona. While there, he contributed to the award-winning series, "Poverty with a View," a collaboration between KNAU and NPR. |
| | Gail Hunt | Underwriting/Development Assistant, Community Calendar Coordinator | | | | Tom Kuser | Program Director/Morning Edition Host | View Bio | | Tom started his public radio career at WSHU in 1987, after spending 15 years at college and commercial radio and television stations. After a short stint as classical music announcer, he was given the task of rebuilding and expanding the news department. Under his direction, the news staff began a tradition of award-winning coverage. Tom has won several Associated Press awards for his own feature reporting, too. One of his proudest achievements is working with other talented staff members over the years to double the number of WSHU listeners in Connecticut and Long Island. Tom wears two hats at WHSU: Program Director and the local host of NPR’s Morning Edition. Tom is a past president of the Connecticut Associated Press Broadcasters Association. |
| | Charles Lane | Reporter | View Bio | | Charles is a multi-media reporter who has contributed to most of the NPR news programs, Justice Talking, Here and Now, Soundprint, BBC's "The World," Deutche Welle, Radio Netherlands, VOA, and several other radio programs and networks. In the past, he's written for Wealth Manager, Penthouse, the Religion News Service, and the Catholic World Report.
His work has been funded by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Public Radio Exchange, and the Robeson Fund for Independent Media. |
| | Craig LeMoult | Senior Reporter | View Bio | | Craig LeMoult is a Connecticut native who returned to his home state to produce sound-rich and thought-provoking radio features for WSHU. Craig is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His print stories have been published in the Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Providence Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, Austin American Statesman, Detroit News, New York Observer, Arizona Republic, Kansas City Star and other publications. In addition to WSHU, Craig's radio stories have aired on WNYC in New York City, WNPR in Hartford, CT, WILL in Urbana, IL, WSTC/WNLK in Fairfield County, CT, and on CKMO in Victoria, BC. In an earlier life, Craig worked in public relations, writing about everything from international board game tournaments to stem cell research. |
| | Cameron LiDestri | Director of Individual Gifts | | | | Paul Litwinovich | Chief Engineer | | | | Ellen Litwinovich | Traffic Manager | | | | George Lombardi | General Manager | | | | Lori Miller | Underwriting Manager | | | | Tony Page | IT Manager | | | | Janice Portentoso | Promotions Director/Broadcast Society Director | | | | Kate Remington | Music Director | View Bio | | Born in Madison,Wisconsin, Kate Remington recieved a degree in piano performance and mass communications from the University of Wisconsin. Her first radio position was with Wisconsin Public Radio, which included a wildly successful request program on Saturday mornings. She then moved to Chicago to join the fledgling nationally-distributed, Beethoven Satellite Network, orginating from WFMT. In 1990 Kate set out for Vermont Public Radio to become the chief announcer there. In Vermont Kate met her husband, WSHU's Dick Roberts. Their son Sam was born in 1992. Kate and her family relocated to Fairfield to join WSHU in December of 2000, and she's been WSHU's Music Director since 2002.
When she's not on the air, Kate can usually be found at a stable in Newtown, CT, where she trains her leased horse, Lance, in dressage, or trying to keep up with her son's varied interests, which include ancient Egypt and Medieval warfare. |
| | Lauren Rico | Classical Music Host | View Bio | | For over 17 years, Lauren Rico has been able to combine her love of
music with her passion for public radio. A longtime student of the
French horn, Lauren holds a Master's degree from George Mason
University. She has been heard on stations in cities around the country
including Tampa, Washington, D.C., New York, St. Paul and Charlotte. In
2001, Lauren received the Gracie Allen Award for Best National Radio
Special from the Association of Women in Radio and Television for
"Instrumental Women: Orchestrating Change", a series on the role of
women in American orchestras. |
| | Stuart Schader | Weekend Host | | | | Chris Snyder | Programming Assistant | | | | Naomi Starobin | News Director | View Bio | | Great radio intrigues, informs and inspires. That's what Naomi and the
news team aim for: not only the news, but the stories behind the news
that give listeners a deeper, broader understanding. She is a graduate
of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and in previous
careers was an environmental engineering consultant and teacher. She has
won several awards for her features. Naomi was a fellow at the Wood's
Hole Oceanographic Institution and at Minnesota Public Radio's
Integrated Media Program, is a judge for the American Association for
the Advancement of Science Journalism Awards, and is a board member of
PRNDI, Public Radio News Directors Incorporated. |
| | Eunice Stead | Membership Administrator | | | | Ebong Udoma | Senior Reporter | View Bio | | Ebong Udoma, WSHU’s award winning Connecticut State Capitol reporter worked at the NPR National News Desk as part of NPR’s diversity initiative. He is a regular contributor of spot news to NPR and has covered such varied events as presidential visits, the Skakel trial, the Anthrax scare and municipal corruption for the network. He keenly follows developments with Native American tribes in Connecticut and produced an award-winning feature on the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. He is also a regular contributor to Independent Native News out of Alaska and covered political transitions in Nigeria in 1993 and 1999 for Pacifica Network News. Prior to joining WSHU in 1994, Ebong had been an award-winning reporter with the Connecticut Post. |
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