New hires, new year!

We highlight some great audio and informative events in this newsletter. Please forward this on to anyone you think might be interested!

Welcome to Charity Marchandt & Canaan Schlesinger!

Charity comes to KBOO with an incredible breadth of experience producing multi-media content and digital and print campaigns. We're excited to welcome them as KBOO's PM News Director!

We would also like to extend a warm welcome to Canaan Schlesinger, KBOO's new PM Public Affairs Director. Canaan is a member of the Pacific Underground collective and an avid newsroom volunteer. You can check out his work on the KBOO website!

KBOO Youth of Color Production Internship

Deadline to Apply Jan 27, 2017

Help KBOO get our programming up on national platforms (like AudioPort and PRX) and get paid! This internship is open to people of color attending college and/or under 30.

Application and details on the KBOO site!

Join our Thank-A-Thon next weekend!

On the weekend of the inauguration, we're conducting a Thank-A-Thon!

We'll be calling KBOO members (just the ones that told us it'd be ok to call) and thanking them for their support. If you're not sure what to do that weekend, join us at the KBOO studios to show gratitude to fellow believers in a more just, inclusive, and participatory media.

No experience necessary. Let's do it! Sign up here!

KBOO's Analog Archive Database Pt.1

There's a new analog archive database available at the station! Selena Chau, KBOO's digital stewardship resident, will be holding two training session so you can learn how to use this tool.

Email selena@kboo.org to RSVP. Feb 4th, 10-11am and 11-noon

Learn more about our database here!

Volunteer Spotlight

This month, we had a chance to interview Ray Bodwell, newsroom volunteer, about his experience with KBOO and his love for community radio!

Meet Ray on our Volunteer Spotlight!

32nd Annual Live Remote Broadcast of the World Arts Foundation tribute to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Join us for a tribute to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

this Monday

For more information on the event, please go to the World Arts Foundation website. We will be broadcasting this event from 10am to 6pm on 90.7 FM in Portland, 91.9 FM in Hood River, 104.3 FM in Corvallis, and online at KBOO.FM.

Anjali and The Incredible Kid Celebrate 11th Anniversary on KBOO!

You can join them in celebrating 11 incredible years on the air anytime - just listen to their latest episode on our website. Click here!

ICYMI: Audio Highlights

On Africa Oye, Golden Wilson hosts Hisham Mayet of Sublime Frequencies, focusing on the recent triple LP release: Music of Burkina Faso.

A Radio Geekly continues their series on Gatekeeping, and discusses oppression of the LGBTQ community in geek culture.

Welcome Back to Changeable Bulbs and their Eclectedelic Funky Music & Collage late night magic.

Hear it here

Host John Shuck speaks with three activists who have a proven track record on social change about King's dream and how it has been hijacked. Hear Dr. Catherine Meeks, JoAnn Hardesty, and Teressa Raiford on the KBOO website.