KDFC, KUSC, & USC Radio Group

Consulting Producer, Strategy, New Initiatives, Events & Special Projects - San Francisco & Los Angeles

Classical California is the most-listened-to network of classical music radio stations in America, serving over 1,000,000 listeners each week. Classical California’s mission is to make a positive impact on individuals and communities by championing the power of classical music, expanding music education and the arts, and nurturing the love of classical music for all.

91.7 FM Bay Area.

Human Centered. Bay Area Rooted. World Inspired.

Senior Advisor: Music + Cultural Initiatives (2022 - Present)

Director of Strategy: Music, Culture + New Initiatives (2021 - 2022)

Senior advisor and strategist for music and cultural initiatives. Together with KALW Executive Director, identified market opportunity for, researched, and launched KALW’s Music Mission (2020-2021), which aims to create a beloved, and indispensable home for music discovery in the SF Bay Area, helping define the Bay’s musical and artistic identity, and contributing to the Bay Area’s cultural landscape and the world beyond.

Led the search for and selected the station's first-ever Music Director, and worked together to onboard and cultivate a flight of new music programming and on-air talent. Identified and formed partnership with 25th Street Recording in Oakland to establish a new live broadcast and studio home for KALW Music and create the station’s multi-year broadcast operation there (2021-2024). Developed and co-launched KALW Presents (2022), a new marketing and engagement arm of the station. Identified, developed and orchestrated first-ever KALW x Stern Grove Music & Arts Festival season-long partnership (2024), collaborating with Stern Grove, KALW Music Programmers, filmmaker, KALW Music Journalism Director and audio content teams. Co-created and launched KALW’s Emerging Artist Project in partnership with Follow the Music. Collaborated on brand development, helping to craft a new look for the newly-formulated KALW Public Media. I continue to advise and co-lead the Music Mission (now a team of five), spearhead partnership development and artistic collaborations.

KALW is an NPR-affiliate and features the most acclaimed programming from NPR the BBC and the CBC, alongside 45 hours per week of locally-produced music, along with arts and culture programming with deep Bay Area roots. KALW is dedicated to inspiring audiences and telling the human story in all its breadth and richness. We celebrate discovery, equity, independence and new voices.

An innovative blend of ideas journalism and live events. Zócalo connects people to ideas and to each other.

A Knowledge Enterprise of ASU - Los Angeles, CA

Consulting Producer, Special Projects

Sample Projects:

“Should Global Democracy Become More Direct?”

“Why Don’t Women’s Votes Put More Women in Power?”

“What Do We Need From Campaign Journalism”

“How Much Information Is Too Much?”

“Are We Living in a World Ray Bradbury Tried to Prevent?”

“How Have Women’s Protests Changed History?”

“Zócalo Live On Twitter: How Has Racism Shaped The American Economy? With Eduardo Porter & Cynthia Greenlee”

“Zócalo Live On Twitter: Will Anyone Ever Be Able to Afford to Live in California? With Jerry Nickelsburg & Erika Aguilar”

“How Can Humans Coexist with Monster Wildfires?”

“Zócalo Live on Twitter: Four Questions With Jennifer Mercieca & William Sturkey”

“Can We Build A Better Summer Olympics?”

“How Do Oppressed People Build Community?”

“What Can Poetry Offer Us in Distressing Times?”

“How Can We Make Farm Work Healthier?”

“How Does Music Change Your Brain?”

“How Are Native American Artists Envisioning The Future?”

“How Can L.A. Use Its Past to Build a Brighter Future?”

“What Does the Resurgence of White Supremacy Mean for the Future of Race Relations?”

“Will California Learn to Regulate the Marijuana Business?”

“What Can Life on the U.S.-Mexico Border Teach America?”

“What Can Everyday Angelenos Do About Homelessness?”

“Does Hawaii Welcome Immigrants?”

KCRW’s Apogee Sessions are the station’s most intimate live music series, held in the private recording studio of legendary mixer/producer Bob Clearmountain and Apogee Electronics Co-founder/CEO, Betty Bennett. Sessions are mixed by Bob Clearmountain.  With sound far superior to any live venue and a capacity of just 180 guests, this series caters to core music lovers, and offers a rare opportunity to experience artists close up.

Each session is filmed and recorded for broadcast on Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW’s signature music program, and features performance and interview between performers and KCRW DJs.

The series has featured over 100 sessions, each attended by major supporters, media, tastemakers, and core music fans.

As co-creator and Executive Producer of KCRW's Apogee Sessions, I launched and produced the first 75 sessions. My team and I worked closely with KCRW's Music Director, Music Department, and a wide range of artists and management to create this series.  

Featured artists include: John Legend, Beck, Tom Jones, TV On The Radio, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, Johnny Marr, Queens of The Stone Age, Patti Smith, Gary Clark Jr., Cold War Kids, The Avett Brothers, War on Drugs, Chrissie Hynde, Nas & Damian Marley, Janelle Monae, Interpol, Manu Chao, David Gray, Teddy Thompson, KD Lang, Little Dragon, St. Vincent, Death Cab for Cutie, Ryan Adams, Shelby Lynne, M Ward, The Shins, Thenewno2, Bloc Party, Regina Spektor, Band Of Horses, Divine Fits, Local Natives, Jose James, Airborne Toxic, James Blake, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Vampire Weekend, Fitz & The Tantrums, The Olms, Quadron, Ludovico Einaudi, KT Tunstall, Jim James, Gary Numan, Jake Bugg, Rosanne Cash, Kelis, Beck, MGMT, Chromeo, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Meshell Ndegeocello, Conor Oberst, Jenny Lewis, Belle and Sebastian, Toro y Moi, Alabama Shakes, Glen Hansard, Miguel, Silversun Pickups, Hiatus Kaiyote, Foals,  Pete Yorn, Mayer Hawthorne, Sturgill Simpson, Miike Snow, The Kills, Norah Jones, Spoon, Tinariwen, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Future Islands, The XX, Dan Auerbach.

KCRW's Summer Nights, now 10 seasons strong and growing, is the station’s signature free, all-ages, outdoor summer music event series,  taking place across Southern California.  The series comprises of nearly 40 music events in communities throughout the greater Los Angeles Area, Orange County, and Santa Barbara. 

As Co-creator and Executive Producer of Summer Nights, I launched and oversaw the first eight seasons. My team and I collaborated with a wide rage of cultural partners, programmers, business districts and communities to facilitate these partner-driven events.

Summer Nights partnerships and locations have included:  The Annenberg Space for Photography, Hammer Museum, Chinatown Redevelopment District, Santa Monica Pier, California African American Museum, Anaheim Packing District, Metro Arts Presents, One Colorado, and Santa Barbara’s Museum of Contemporary Art.

KCRW expands to serve the Northern California music community and introduces KCRW’s Bay Area Sessions, hosted in Oakland and San Francisco, Left, Right & Center Live on the road in San Francisco, KCRW’s Metropolis and more.

I oversaw strategy, research, development and creation of KCRW events, partnerships and collaborations in the Bay Area to build community, audience, brand awareness and to serve fans and supporters.

Development and creation of a wide variety of ongoing KCRW events, salons, partnerships and collaborations in Santa Barbara to build community, audience and brand awareness.  KCRW launched the Santa Barbara station in 2014.

A partnership between KCRW and the Annenberg Foundation to host annual, first ever, large-scale, free outdoor concerts on the greens in Century City, to accompany the Annenberg Space for Photography's major exhibitions.  The series enjoyed 5 seasons, with a total of 16 shows, celebrating music, community and photography with 5,000 attendees each night.

As co-creator, executive producer, and collaborator of this series, I worked closely with the Annenberg Foundation, KCRW Music Director Jason Bentley, Spaceland Productions and J. Ben Bourgeois Productions.

Featured talent included:  Miguel, Paul Oakenfold, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Nas, TV On The Radio, Cold War Kids, Natalia Lafourcade, De La Soul, Dwight Yoakam, X, Classixx, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, Gregg Allman, Other Lives, Moby, Band of Skulls, Shelby Lynne, Portugal the Man, Raphael Saadiq, Mondo Cozmo and more, plus KCRW DJs Jason Bentley, Garth Trinidad, Anne Litt, Anthony Valadez, José Galván, Gary Calamar and Dan WIlcox.

As Executive Producer and co-creator along with KCRW Music Director Jason Bentley, and Spaceland Productions’ Mitchell Frank, I oversaw all aspects of the event from concept to completion for its first eight seasons.

KCRW's Masquerade was called LA’s “go-to Halloween event of choice,” selling out every year. The annual Masquerade Costume Ball brought together 3,000 guests to the iconic MacArthur in DTLA, featured five uniquely themed ballrooms and stages, 13 KCRW DJs, multiple live bands, dance acts, ghost stories and culinary delights.

A variety of special KCRW partnerships with Ira Glass, Peabody Award-winning host and producer of This American Life, when Ira brought his storytelling genius to sold-out evenings in LA.  I worked closely with Ira Glass's agency and team to book, determine venues, oversee marketing, ticket sales, and night of show details.

2015 + 2014 featured Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host.

2012 featured A Night with Ira Glass: Radio Stories and Other Stories.

A wide range of live broadcast news and public affairs events over two decades, including many incarnations of the wildly popular Left, Right & Center Live, mayoral debates, town hall events and more.

I co-created and produced these live events in collaboration with KCRW Programming Director and senior producers.  Event locations have included the Theatre at the Ace in DTLA, the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, Peterson Automotive roof top LA and more. 

Elon Musk, Tesla Motors creator and standard bearer for innovation and design, in a rare conversation with Frances Anderton, before an intimate audience in his showroom. I collaborated on and produced this event.

Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam and Swell Season’s Glen Hansard. This modern troubadour united with the Oscar-winning songwriter for a once-only intimate club gig together, playing solo acoustic for an intimate audience at Sayer’s Club.  I co-created and produced this evening in collaboration with artist management.

For the first and only time, DJ Henry Rollins and legendary Black Flag front man presented an exclusive collection of rare cuts and conversation, unforgettable music and stories, showcased in a living room setting for 600 people—from his personal vault. I co-created and produced this evening in collaboration with Henry Rollins.

A Sounds Eclectic Evening was KCRW's first-ever concert series.  It grew from its first sold-out year at the 2000-seat Wiltern Theatre to six consecutive sold-out years at the 6,000- seat Gibson Amphitheatre.  ASEE brought together world-class musical talent each year on a main-stage, included an exclusive backstage party for VIPs and LA’s top culinary names, and an after-party for more than 2,000 guests, featuring acclaimed club DJs.

I conceived, co-created and co-produced these signature annual KCRW music events, in collaboration with KCRW Music Director, Nic Harcourt, and Spaceland Productions owner Mitchell Frank.

Artists for A Sounds Eclectic Evening main stage included: Zero 7, Beck, Ben Harper, Coldplay, The Shins, Franz Ferdinand, Death Cab for Cutie, Lily Allen, Cold War Kids, Jurassic 5, Sia, Elliot Smith, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Blackalicious, Ozomatli, Aimee Mann, Shelby Lynne, Pete Yorn, Café Tacuba, Kinky, Z-Trip, Pete Yorn, Beth Orton, Gomez, Feist, Wayne Coyne, Norah Jones, Gary Jules, Jem, Liz Phair, Shelby Lynne, Damien Rice, Polyphonic, Spree, Travis, The Like, Bitter:Sweet, Nellie McKay, Keaton Simons with Abba Roland, Aqualung, Joseph Arthur, Van Hunt, Paul Buchanan, Video, Britt Daniel, Goldspot, Breakestra, Sparklehorse, Ramsay Midwood.

Artists for A Sounds Eclectic Evening after-party included: Thievery Corporation, Felix Da Housecat, DJ Shadow, Mark Farina, Dan the Automator, Cut Chemist, Z-Trip, The Pinker Tones, and Mocean Worker.

I was the Executive Producer of this intimate evening series that featured on-air personalities in conversation with high-profile guests in private homes.

Events included:

David Lynch, host of the groundbreaking series Twin Peaks which returned in summer 2017 for it's third season after a quarter-century hiatus. 

Francis Anderton, host of KCRW's Design and Architecture program, in conversation with Simon Doonan about fashion, art and creativity.

Elvis Mitchell, host of KCRW's The Treatment, and Michael Keaton in front of an intimate live audience to talk about playing characters with a divide in their personalities, and why comedians really know how to act.

Evan Kleiman, host of KCRW's Good Food, and Pulitzer Prize winning food writer Jonathan Gold in moderated conversation with chefs Kris Yenbamroong (Night+Market, Song) and Carlos Salgado (Taco Maria).

Elvis Mitchell in conversation with Dan Harmon on being back at community, and punk rock television.

Madeleine Brand, host of KCRW's Press Play, in conversation with production designer K. K. Barrett, LACMA’s Michael Govan, and A+D’s Greg Goldin.

I was the Executive Producer, in partnership and collaboration with Helms Bakery and KCRW host Frances Anderton, to create these pop-up events celebrating design and architecture.

Featured events included:  Reinventing the Wheel, conversation and innovations in transportation design with Geoff Wardle (Art Center College of Design), Craig Hodgetts (UCLA’s Hyperloop Suprastudio), Harald Belker (Concept Designer for Batman and Robin, Minority Report) and Michael Lejeune (Creative Director Metro LA).  In 2012, Mobility & Modern Architecture in L.A. featured conversation with LACMA Director Michael Govan, Wim de Wit of the Getty Research Institute, MOCA guest curator Christopher Mount and more.

Exclusive semi-annual partnership with The Moth Mainstage featured America’s best live storytellers at a renowned 800+ seat Hollywood club, and historic Santa Barbara theatre.

I was the Executive Producer of these KCRW evenings, working collaboratively with the Moth and KCRW teams.

I produced a wide variety of culinary events over the past 15 years.  These events were hosted by KCRW’s Evan Kleiman, featured top chefs and personalities, on a variety of topics.

UpClose was KCRW's premier cultural series featuring the station’s on-air personalities in lively and compelling conversations with leading figures in film, culinary, design, radio documentary, art, politics, literature, and pop-culture. 

As co-creator and producer of UpClose, my team and I worked closely with KCRW's General Manager, program directors, producers, hosts and a wide range of talent, partners and venues.

UpClose highlights include: California Cuisine: What is it and Why it Matters?, interviews with Mad Men's Matthew Weiner, Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, Sapphire, Catherine Keener, musical salons with Rhythm Planet guests Alan Pasqua, Dori Caymmi and many more.

Groundbreaking event celebrated KCRW's new state-of-the-art media center to house the station and to built awareness of related capital campaign.

I Executive Produced a complex event on active construction site, featuring live musical performance by Ben Harper and additional special guests.

A partnership between KCRW and the Annenberg Foundation to host annual, first-ever, large-scale, free outdoor concerts on the greens in Century City, to accompany the Annenberg Space for Photography's major exhibitions.  2014 was the second year of this popular concert series.

As co-creator, executive producer and collaborator of this series, I worked closely with the Annenberg Foundation, KCRW Music Director Jason Bentley, Spaceland Productions, and J. Ben Bourgeois Productions.  

The 2014 concert series Country in the City was created to support the Annenberg's exhibition, Country: Portraits of an American Sound. Each event hosted 4,000 attendees.

Talent included: Greg Allman, Shelby Lynne, Jamestown Revival, Wynonna Judd, Sturgill, Simpson, Nikki Lane, plus KCRW DJs Jason Bentley, Anne Litt, Chris Douridas and Gary Calamar.

KCRW’s Annual “Best of the Year” album review event.  An intimate conversation (and party of the year!) with KCRW DJs, as they reflected and played tracks from their ‘best of’ lists.  Guests got the scoop 24 hours before the lists are announced.

A partnership between KCRW and the Annenberg Foundation to host annual, first-ever, large-scale, free outdoor concerts on the greens in Century City, to accompany the Annenberg Space for Photography's major exhibitions.  2013 was the first year of this popular concert series.

As co-creator, executive producer and collaborator of this series, I worked closely with the Annenberg Foundation, KCRW Music Director Jason Bentley, Spaceland Productions, and J. Ben Bourgeois Productions.  

Talent included: Moby, Band of Skulls, Portugal the Man, Raphael Saadiq, plus KCRW DJs Jason Bentley, Anne Litt, Gary Calamar and Dan Wilcox.

KCRW special partnerships hosted opening and closing parties that brought awareness and audience to select expeditions.

Along with the support from collaborative foundations and sponsors, KCRW hosted events in the Los Angeles community including LA United Way's Homewalk 5K/run to reduce veteran homelessness and Hilton Grant Homewalk.

The Grand Opening celebration of The KCRW Media Center and Santa Monica College’s Center for Media and Design.

A collaborative event between KCRW and Santa Monica College to showcase SMC’s Center for Media and Design and to offer a sneak peak into KCRW’s new studios and headquarters.

This day of celebration and festivities included a private ribbon-cutting ceremony and live musical performance for 400+ major supporters, city officials and more, as well as an afternoon for the community (3000+) featuring interactive tours, DJs, student dance performances, new media open house, curated culinary offerings, family activities and more.

I produced the day, collaborating and working closely with Santa Monica College President and SMC senior team, KCRW President and a wide range of staff, talent, graphic designers, venders, city officials and volunteers.

Critical Thinking With Warren Olney:

A partnership between KCRW and Zocalo featured a series of cultural events moderated by Warren Olney, the dean of Southern California journalists and executive producer of the nationally syndicated public radio program “To the Point”.

There Goes The Neighborhood:

A series that highlighted the Los Angeles identity crisis. City officials tout new development and shiny commuter trains, while longtime residents opposed the gentrification. Hosted by, Saul Gonzalez and Madeleine Brand.

Pop-up events took place at various locations including:

LA regional Food Bank, Annenberg Beach House, Ameba records, Union Station, and Music Center Plaza

A resource page showcasing KCRW's many press articles, featured announcements, artist performance and highlights, event recaps, and more!