WELCOME TO KVMR'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS

• KVMR's Mission Statement and Core Values

• Message From KVMR's Board President

• What Is A Nonprofit Board Of Directors?

• Board Meeting Minutes

• KVMR's Strategic Plan

You may email KVMR's Board of Directors at; theboard @ kvmr.org

Board Member Bios

Michael Young, Board President

Folks have any number of reasons for moving to Nevada County, be it outdoor recreation, the beauty of the four seasons or the charm and closeness of small-town living. For board president Michael Young, it was, in large part, the ambiance of KVMR. Young was attracted not only to the eclectic music and news, but also to the vibe of togetherness it projects. So in 2007, after visiting the area for more than 10 years, he and his wife Karen pulled up stakes in Los Angeles to realize their dreams of living in a small town and giving back to the community.

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 and national desks, 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. Soon after, he attended the station's broadcasters' training and now hosts "Strawberry Alarm Clock," broadcasting alternate Monday mornings from 4 to 7 a.m.

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. Currently, he is active locally in the Gold Country Kiwanis.

His wife Karen, who retired as executive director of communications at USC, is on the Board of Directors of Hospitality House where she led a grant-writing effort in 2009 that garnered $200,000 for the Nevada County homeless shelter. They have two daughters, Alison and Marly, who graduated respectively from UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis, and now live and work in Santa Cruz and Sacramento. His hobbies are reading and playing guitar in various bands, including the party band Sgt. Funky. He hopes to help KVMR grow stronger while maintaining its charm and close connection to its listeners.

Phil Hart, Board Board Vice President

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.

Don Kewman, Board Treasurer

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.

Lee Osborne, Board Secretary

Lee retired from the Nevada County Sheriff's Office in 2007 after 30 years service to Nevada County and 32 years total law enforcement service. He commanded the Corrections Division, the largest and most diverse division of the Nevada County Sheriff's Office. He was responsible for development and management of a $12 million budget and is well versed in all aspects of leadership, personnel development and management.

Lee was born in Mt. Shasta CA and grew up in Dunsmuir. He is a 32 year resident of Nevada County. He became a volunteer broadcaster at KVMR in 2004 and has his own show, Conant Road; alternate Mondays 4-7 AM.

Lee's involvement in radio started with a Radio Workshop at College of the Siskiyous in Weed, CA which performed radio dramas and simulated broadcasts of the home basketball games. He continued in radio during his Senior year at Chico State College where he hosted Valley Concerts, two hours of classical music on KCHO the campus radio station.

Lee brings a wealth of leadership, budget management, personnel, training and non-profit board experience to the KVMR Board of Directors.

Janet Cohen, Board Member

Since moving from England to California in 1987, Janet Cohen has worked in the business world and also as Executive Director of the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL). A hard and fast KVMR fan, Janet is a principal at the Grant Farm and Community Action Partners. These consulting firms specialize in grant writing and capacity-building for non-profits, private businesses and government agencies, especially in the fields of conservation, green energy and public transportation. She has provided strategic planning, communications, facilitation and fund development assistance to many different organizations throughout California. In addition, Janet successfully founded and coordinated SYRCL's Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival, the largest environmental film festival in the United States and, like KVMR, another Nevada City treasure.

Joshua D. Lichterman, Ph.D., Board Member

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.

Mary Ross, Board Member

Mary Hall Ross left her native Illinois on a west-bound train at age 19. She spent the next 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, earning a BA in Urban Studies from San Francisco State University and a Masters in Public Administration from Golden Gate University, and honing her management skills in the service of The Sierra Club Foundation, the Northern California Cancer Center, and Stanford University.

Mary, her husband Steve, and sons Miles and Gabriel moved to Nevada City in 1999. Mary has worked for the County of Nevada since 2002, except for one year spent as the interim director of the Nevada City School of the Arts. She is currently the Chief Fiscal & Administrative Officer for the County's Information & General Services Department, which includes serving as the County Purchasing Agent.

Mary brings to the KVMR board over 25 years experience in grant and contract administration, budgeting, financial and personnel management, board development and support, procurement and strategic planning. She has served on the boards of educational, women's health, and youth archery organizations. Mary loves to spend her evenings making quilts while listening to KVMR.

Tony Spinetta, Board Member

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, Board Member

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).