People

As you may know, KALW lost an important voice for the arts in the Bay Area, our senior announcer, Alan Farley, in October of 2012.  Alan’s diagnosis and subsequent passing of pancreatic and liver cancer was sudden, and a shock to all of us here...

Ali Budner came to KALW as a volunteer reporter with Crosscurrents in early 2009, then joined the Your Call team as a producer in March of 2010.  She loves the dynamic daily interactions of live radio and the inspiring guests...

Annette Bistrup is a scientist by training, having done her graduate work in Immunology at the University of California San Francisco. Following her thesis work there, she did a postdoctoral fellowship and then went on to work for several...

Audrey Dilling produces KALW's community storytelling project, Hear Here, which began as part of the Association of Independents in Radio's national "Localore" initiative, designed to bring journalistic and technical ingenuity to extending...

Ben Trefny is KALW's executive news editor.  He got his start in public radio in Eugene, Oregon, volunteering at KLCC while earning a Masters degree in journalism at the University of Oregon.

Ben and his wife moved to San Francisco upon...