WHAT IS A NONPROFIT BOARD OF DIRECTORS?

You may email our Board of Directors at; theboard@kvmr.org

Joey Jordan has a 20 year resume in commercial radio. She has worked in various radio markets, in formats including Top 40, Country, Gourmet Rock, 30's & 40's Music, Oldies, and Talk Radio. She has held the position of air personality, Music Director, Program Director, News Reporter and Traffic Reporter. She also did a short stint as a Television Talk Show Host on Catch 22 Music Television in Anchorage, Alaska.

In the early 90's Joey became involved in the non-profit world by founding an organization in the Bay Area dedicated to alcohol policy and drunk driving prevention.

Locally she has served on many non-profit boards including the Food Bank of Nevada County, Federation of Neighborhood Associations (FoNA), Penn Valley Community Association, Foothill Fibers Guild, Sierra Watch, and, since 2003, KVMR. She is a fundraising professional and political campaign consultant.

I was born in Mt. Shasta CA and grew up in Dunsmuir. I came to Nevada County in 1977 as a Deputy Sheriff in Truckee. I moved to Grass Valley in 1993 and soon after discovered KVMR.

Music has been an important part of my life. We did not have television in our house until I was 13 so we read, played board and card games and listened to radio for entertainment when we couldn't be outside! I started playing music in school band in 5th grade and played in school bands through college. I picked up the guitar during the folk music scene in the late 60s and played in rock bands and for Folk Masses through college.

I took a Radio Workshop at College of the Siskiyous where we performed radio dramas and simulated broadcasts of the home basketball games. There was no campus radio station so the Workshops were part of the Drama Department. It was lots of fun and gave me an appreciation for how difficult calling a sporting event is!

My next adventure in radio land came during my Senior year at Chico State College where I hosted Valley Concerts, two hours of classical music on KCHO, beaming out a whole 10 or 15 watts to the campus community.

Fast forward to 2004 when I took the Broadcaster Training class and became certified as a KVMR broadcaster. I substituted many shows my first year, mostly Red Eye Radio and 4-7 AM. In April 2005 Conant Road went on the air to take you off the Interstate and onto the backroads to reconnect with the old and explore the new. Rock, Americana, Blues, Bluegrass and Country can all be found on Conant Road. Conant Road is now in it's third year on KVMR

Don Kewman is a retired University of Michigan clinical professor and rehabilitation psychologist. He has conducted research and published in the areas of psychological and behavioral aspects of disability and chronic disease. He has also written and lobbied on health policy issues. Don has served in leadership positions and on the board of directors of two professional organizations and one small for-profit company. He currently serves on the steering committee of the Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine.

A native Californian, Don returned in 2002 after a 30-year absence to be closer to the mountains and ocean. Although fully midwesternized, his family was kind enough to join him on this reverse migration. His wife, Sandy, and older son, Mark, are KVMR volunteers. His younger son, Ben, would like to hear more country music on KVMR.

Marjorie Determan is a Certified Financial Planner, an Accredited Investment Fiduciary and the owner of Financial Strategies of NCA, providing comprehensive and financial planning and asset management services to a full spectrum of individual and business clients.

She has been associated with Philadelphia Financial Advisors, Inc, Philadelphia; Mariner Financial Services, Inc, Livonia, Michigan; and, Planner's Independent Management, Inc., Solana Beach, California. Margie received her Personal Financial Planning Certificate from U.C. Berkeley and her B.A. degree in Counseling and Psychology from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.

Margie is also associated with the Sierra Club: Sierra Chapter; a Docent for the Independence Trail, and, a member of the Financial Planning Association.

Margie and her husband, Ed Rothberg, have been passionate listeners and supporters of KVMR, 89.5 since their arrival in Nevada County from the Bay Area in 2000. Ed is a Video Game Designer.

Freelance Illustrator and artist, with a background in graphics and marketing in retail and wine sales with having worked with newspapers,corporations and publishers worldwide. She has been a listener to KVMR for the last 20 years and became a broadcaster at KVMR 10 years ago with still her own morning show on Fridays.

Having lived in Nevada County for the last 26 years brings an amount of ambassadorship and presence to KVMR with such longstanding community involvement. Jerianne is a former member as well as a past president to KVMR's board and is sure that KVMR is yet to see its potential in music, community and its world changing presence.

Prior to sometime in the early '90's, Gary Harrison had never called a radio station to talk to a broadcaster. Listening to KVMR changed all of that. "The humor, warmth, and good music I located on my car radio at 89.5 FM brought new listening adventures to my life." In 1996 Gary chased a dream buried from years ago to become a radio broadcaster by taking the summer- time broadcasting class offered by KVMR. After very early morning "Red Eye Radio" stints and some substitute slots, Gary is now broadcasting a folk music show twice a month named "Carefree Highway."

After a career spent in education as a teacher, a principal, and a teacher union staff member, Gary retired in 2000 and moved from Auburn to the Grass Valley/Nevada City area. His career as a teacher, manager, organizer, and negotiator gave him expeience that seemed perfect for KVMR. Gary says, "In all of these matters, you must learn to be a good listener…something I always have to strive to be. This causes me to focus as much as I can on playing good music for the listeners, and I try not to spend too much time "jawing" at them. As far as radio is concerned, first of all I am a listener."

Even though retired, Gary continues to work part-time, participates in the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program, is a board member for the Auburn Education Foundation, and works on fund drives for the ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) Association, the AED, and the American Cancer Society.

Gary treasures the friends he has made through KVMR, including broadcasters, listeners, staff, board members and volunteers. "I started working in KVMR as a way to give back to the community, KVMR being 'community' radio, of course. In reality, I know I get much more from KVMR than I give. For all of this and more, I am grateful for the opportunities I have had with KVMR."

Phil Hart moved to Grass Valley in 1997 after completing a career as CEO and of DDC Office Interiors in Los Angeles. Phil is a graduate of UCLA class of 1961 and received a Masters degree in Spiritual Psychology at the University of Santa Monica in 1997. Phil founded DDC and successfully grew the company until it was acquired by a public company in 1997. Since that time he has continued as a Business and Life Coach and been an active force in the Mankind Project a Non-Profit which provides personal growth opportunities for men around the World. His other non-profit experience includes board member of Tree People (and environmental organization in Los Angeles) Board member of the Mankind Project. Current Board Member of Inside Circle Foundation (working with convicts inside Folsom Prison).

Phil will be celebrating 25 years of Marriage to Suzannah in 2009. They have 4 children and three grandchildren. His love of travel, singing, gardening and tennis fill out the rest of Phil's life today here in Grass Valley.

Bob Holderness is the sole proprietor of the Holderness Law Firm which was formed in November 1980. The law firm relocated from Sacramento to Folsom, California in 1998. At present, Bob primarily practices law in the fields of land use and real estate. He has, however, handled a wide variety of public law and civil litigation matters including service as general counsel to the California Physical Therapy Association, appearances before state and local regulatory bodies, real estate and ranch litigation, partnership and corporate shareholder litigation, administrative hearings, and public contract bid protests before the California State Board of Control. He has successfully advocated a number of land use entitlement projects and is currently working on a 3.600 acre Folsom annexation project, among other things. His real estate clients include AKT Development, KT Communities, Parker Development Company and Elliott Homes, Inc.

In addition to his law practice, Bob Holderness has a long record of service and political activity. He was chairman of the Sacramento County Democratic Unified Campaign in 1978. He was elected to the Folsom City Council in November 1990, and assumed the office of Vice Mayor in December 1990. In December 1992, Bob was elected Mayor of Folsom by his peers. He was re-elected to the city council in November 1994, and continued to serve as Mayor until December 1995. During his time on the Folsom city council he also served as the Chairman of the Sacramento-Placerville Transportation Corridor Joint Powers Authority, member of the Folsom-El Dorado County Joint Powers Authority, and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District.

Currently, Bob is Chairman of the Folsom Tourism Bureau Board of Directors. a member of the Board of Directors for the Folsom Economic Development Corporation and Chairman of the Long Range Strategic Planning subcommittee of the board. In addition, he serves on the citizens' steering committee for the foundation of a private university in the Sacramento region. In 2004 Bob headed up the successful campaign for Measure "W", a growth management initiative for the City of Folsom, which passed with over 69% of the vote. Bob also served on a citizens committee for Renewal of Measure "A," Sacramento county sales tax for transportation projects, which passed with over 70% of the vote in 2004.

Bob is a graduate of Santa Clara University and he obtained his law degree from University of California, Los Angeles. Before entering private law practice Bob served four years in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, serving with the Fourth Armored Division, First Armored Division, both a part of US Army, Europe, and the U.S. Army Judiciary in Washington. D.C., where he represented clients before Article I appellate courts.

Joshua D. Lichterman, Ph.D. is the owner and President of the Emergency Management Group Inc. of Grass Valley, CA. He has been a Business Continuity Planner for more than 27 years and has worked with a variety of clients in both the public and private sectors. He has performed risk assessments and vulnerability analyses, developed business continuity plans, and designed and delivered related training and exercise programs. Dr. Lichterman has also focused on supply chain resilience issues.

He developed the Preferred Evacuation Plan for the Trans Bay Tube for the Bay Area Rapid Transit District following the train fire in 1979. He taught at the California Specialized Training Institute and the UC Berkeley Extension Certificate Program in Emergency Management.

He started his career as a volunteer fire fighter. He chaired the Fire Assessment Commission in the City of Berkeley following the 1991 Berkeley-Oakland Hills Wild Fire. His clients have included: Neutrogena Corp., Chevron, Berkeley Unified School District, City of Berkeley, California Department of Rehabilitation, Genentech Corp., and other clients.

Recently he wrote "Work Place Preparation for an Avian Flu or other Pandemic [How a Worldwide Avian Flu Pandemic could affect your job!!!]."in Bird Flu What to Do: Prepare to Survive by Verona Fonté with contributions by Joan Halifax, Ph.D., Joshua Lichterman, Ph.D. and Grattan Woodson, MD, FACP, published in June 2006.

He is currently involved in a project to convince 11 pilot counties in California to adopt a new Mass Care & Shelter Annex specifically focused on the needs of People With Disabilities and the Elderly.

For the past year, Josh has been working with three colleagues on raising venture capital to bring a software program associated with the Photo Voltaic Industry to market.

After living in Berkeley for 26 years, he and his wife moved to Nevada County and had their dream house built for them-a straw bale structure. In the 9 years they have lived here they have created extensive gardens and orchards on their land. In addition they are both fiber spinners and involved in the fiber arts.

Josh has served on a variety of boards and organizations including:

• Member Board of Trustees, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont, 1988-92.
• Member Board of Directors, College of Environmental Design Alumni Association, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1990-96.
• President, Board of Directors, College of Environmental Design Alumni Association, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1993-94.
• Leader, Challenge Sonoma Adventure Ropes Course, Eldridge, CA 1989-95.
• Team Leader, Challenge Sonoma Adventure Ropes Course, Eldridge, CA 1993-95.

Locally he has been:

• President, Foothill Fiber Guild, Nevada County, CA 2001-2002.
• Member, Greater Auburn Fire Safe Council, Auburn, CA 2002
• Member of the Board of Directors, Nevada County Jewish Community Center, Grass Valley, CA 2003-2004
• Member of the FONA Fire Committee
• In October 2006 he joined the Board of Directors of KVMR.

Josh believes that KVMR's independent, non corporate, media voice creates an increasingly important beacon of information that counters the administration and the neo-con influenced media's dominant view. He joined the Board because he wants to work to guarantee that this voice is never silenced. He appreciates the in-depth programming on environmental, land use, ground water, transportation, fire, health, sustainability, and economic issues and the extraordinary mix of music which expands his appreciation of music of the world. He is honored to be part of this exceptional community and committed to helping KVMR move into its future.

Tony Spinetta is the general manager of a small winery in Amador County. His ancestors emigrated to the town of Jackson from Italy in 1852. From 1989 until 2005, he was one of California's few independent alcoholic beverage distributors and introduced wines from the Sierra Foothills to countless retailers and restaurants as the wine industry blossomed throughout the gold country.

Tony graduated from California State University, Chico, in 1989 with a BS in business administration and an emphasis in marketing. He guides the marketing of his family's wines, and he has consulted to a variety of eclectic clients over the years.

Tony joined KVMR's membership roster in 1982. He also supports KFJC, KDVS, and LinkTV. He has volunteered his services to the Amador County Chamber of Commerce and extended support to the Plymouth branch of the Amador County Library. He used to moonlight as a deputy commissioner of civil marriages and occasionally performs marriages in rather shaky Spanish.

While attending CSU Chico, he held down an airshift and worked closely with the general manager at KCSC, Chico, a student owned non-profit alternative radio station. Several small market part time airshifts followed, and Tony has hosted hundreds of live remote broadcasts and many days of emergency news and information coverage. You might remember him as a recurrent membership drive host at KVIE, Sacramento, during "Austin City Limits" in the late 1990s.

He loved spinning stacks and stacks of the hottest wax, but Tony is happy to let somebody else play with the microphone and console. He pledges to support and encourage the creative efforts of KVMR's broadcasters, staff, and volunteers, and he will preserve the freedom and variety that KVMR's listeners have come to expect. He wants to hear more punk rock on KVMR.

Dan Wall is currently the Chief Sacramento Lobbyist for the County of Los Angeles, and he has worked in and around California State Government for the last 32 years. His Sacramento resume includes time at the State Department of Social Services, the Employment Development Department, the Senate Committee on Finance, the California State Association of Counties and the Office of Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson, Jr. Academically, Dan has a BA in Economics from St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California and an MA in Economics from San Francisco State University.

Dan was raised in San Francisco, and he and his wife, Janet, have lived in Sacramento since 1973. They have five grown children: Erin, Amy, Laura, Mary and Tom. In addition to his family, Dan's interests include being a huge fan of music and radio (as far back as he can remember), a tolerable cook (especially Italian), a fair rhythm guitarist, a 'professional' sushi junkie and a devoted (but mediocre) golfer.

Dan’s past community involvement included 13 years of service on the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Division of the American Heart Association (with one year as Chair) and six years as a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Capital Division of the March of Dimes. In addition to KVMR, he is currently serving on the Boards of Directors of the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra (seven years) and the Sacramento Division of the YMCA (two years).

After regularly visiting the area for nearly 10 years, Michael Young and his wife Karen Newell Young finally realized their dream this summer and moved to an old Victorian in Nevada City. He retired after a 33-year career in journalism, the last 20 at the Los Angeles Times where he served as an editor on the foreign desk, a business editor and managing editor of the paper's Orange County edition. Upon moving, one of his first duties in his adopted town was to apply to serve on the KVMR board of directors. He loves the eclectic mix of music and news and hopes that some of the skills he's honed chasing the news and dealing with the readers will come in handy at KVMR.

Born in Chicago the son of a "Bauhaus" architect, Young moved with his family to West Virginia and Ohio. He eventually graduated from Ohio State University, where he had the distinction of never attending a Buckeyes football game. His first daily newspaper job was in the Boston suburb of Framingham as a city hall reporter. His salad days continued at the Providence Journal where he spent seven years, working his way from reporter to city editor. From there it was on to the Times in Southern California where he lived first in Orange County, then in Pasadena. On Sept. 11, 2001, he was drafted to work on the national desk, assigning and editing stories on the attack, a gig that lasted nearly two years. He specialized in coverage of the anthrax scare. He also started the extended news desk to provide expanded news coverage on the paper's web site and edited on the foreign desk.

He served on the board of directors of Waverly School, a private non-profit in Pasadena. He also had a long affiliation with Integrity House, an Orange County non-profit that serves as a clubhouse for disabled adults.

He and Karen, who retired as executive director of communications at USC, have two daughters, Alison and Marly, who matriculate respectively at UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis. His hobbies are reading and playing guitar in various bands, from grunge and country to British invasion and disco. He hopes to become involved in broadcasting and as a board member, to help KVMR grow stronger while maintaining its charm and close connection to its listeners.