People

Amy joins us after several years of film production accounting. A longtime fan of public radio, she’s glad to be contributing her skills to KUER! A western transplant, she grew up in the Midwest and graduated with a BA from the University of...

Andrea Smardon is new at KUER, but she has worked in public broadcasting for more than a decade. Most recently, she worked as a reporter and news announcer for WGBH radio. While in Boston, she produced stories for Morning Edition, Marketplace...

Becky is thrilled to return to her hometown of Salt Lake City after spending the past year in Boise, Idaho. She received both her bachelor's degree and her master's degree from the University of Utah. Her passion in life is working for various...

A Salt Lake native, Benjamin Bombard served numerous internships in the KUER newsroom before becoming a producer of RadioWest. He aspired to the position for years, and in his sometimes wayward pursuit of it he has worked as a print and radio...

Brian Grimmett is a former intern who worked his way onto the KUER staff. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a bachelor's degree in communications. As a student he helped produce and report for the University's daily news show,...

Dan Bammes has deep Utah roots.  He’s a descendant of Utah’s early Pioneers and he grew up in Utah County, where he began his radio career in 1974.  He has a degree in broadcasting from BYU and extensive experience as a reporter, newscaster,...

David Childs is a Farmington, Utah native, now residing in Salt Lake City. As a music enthusiast, David took his first step into broadcasting when a junior high school assignment required him to job shadow a career of interest. After shadowing...

Elaine Clark left her home state after finishing a BA in Folklore and Germanic Studies at Indiana University. She earned an MA in Middle East Studies from the University of Utah, which included a year of academic research and work for an...

Gayle moved back to her hometown of Salt Lake City in 2007 after completing her bachelor's degree in Communication at the University of San Diego. She worked as an Events Coordinator at Tuscany Restaurant for two years before deciding to start...

Ja’Naye received her BS in Communications from the University of Utah. Mostly known for her work in the land of coffee as manager of The Salt Lake Roasting Co., you can bet she knows how to make an incredible latte. In her spare time from the...

John Greene grew up in the Western PA town of New Castle. He began his broadcast career as a volunteer with KRCL radio in S.L.C. in 1980. John has a B.S. degree in Political Science from the University of Maryland and an MSW from the University...

An itinerant son of the western soil, Lewis earned two degrees in geology, then fell into broadcast engineering in the 1980's by doing a radio show featuring music from the cutting edge of many a bygone era on a community station. Some...

Michael Tadashi Havey is a Utah native who grew up in Salt Lake City (listening to KUER, of course). He’s also half Japanese and won his first radio journalism award for a piece he produced about the internment camp where his mother, uncle and...

Nastaran Alimadadi moved to Utah from Tehran, Iran in 2002. She has been with KUER since 2006, while working on her bachelors' degrees in Accounting and Finance at the University of Utah. Nastaran started at KUER fresh out of high school, and...

As a southern girl from a long line of southern gardeners, Susan was lured away from a 17 year career at her beloved Red Butte Garden only by an opportunity to work for her ‘other’ love….KUER and public radio. Her gypsy life started in...

Terry Gildea comes to KUER from San Antonio where he spent four years as a reporter and host at Texas Public Radio. While at KSTX, he created, produced and hosted the station's first local talk show, The Source. He covered San Antonio's...

Tristin Tabish has worked in public radio since she was 17. "I got a job with KRCL out of high school, and then I later enrolled at the U of U and landed a gig in KUER's development department." 20 years later, Tristin has earned her B.A. and...

Whittney Evans grew up southern Ohio and has worked in public radio since 2005. She has a communications degree from Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, where she learned the ropes of reporting, producing and hosting. Whittney...