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  • Anna Rose MacArthur
    News Director
    Delta Affairs Weekly

  • Dean Swope
    Videographer/Editor/Graphic Designer

    Dean first showed up at KYUK as a volunteer in 1986 on a Sunday night  show called Radio Free Bethel, co-hosted with Craig McMahan (Martin McKenna).

    In 1988 Dean was hired as master control operator for TV.

    In 1990 Dean became the...

  • Gabby Hiestand Salgado
    Wellness Programming Producer

    Gabby Hiestand Salgado is a first year Jesuit Volunteer and is the new Wellness Programming Producer. She was raised in Seattle, Washington and went to school at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where she studied...

  • Johanna Eurich
    Managing Editor

    Johanna Eurich's vivid broadcast productions have been widely heard on National Public Radio since 1978. She spent her childhood speaking Thai, then learned English as a teenager and was educated at a dance academy, boarding schools and with...

  • Joseph Seibert
    Chief Engineer

    Joe was born in Arizona but schooled in the Houston, Texas area. He served seven years in Uncle Sam’s Canoe Club, and then attended Harvard on the Highway ( aka San Jacinto Jr. College). He eventually matriculated at Texas A&M University....

  • Julia Jimmie
    Yup'ik Translator & On-Air Host

    Julia was born in Bethel and grew up in Tuntutuliak. She was born the last of 6 children. She was raised in a Yup’ik household and spoke only Yup’ik until she was about 10 years old. 

    Julia was married in 1995 and moved to Kwigillingok....

  • Katie Basile
    Multimedia Producer/Director

    Katie Basile is a photographer and multimedia storyteller from Bethel, Alaska. 

    After graduating with a degree in Photojournalism from the University of Montana, Katie lived in Prague and interned with Spectrum Pictures. Eventually she...

  • Krysti Shallenberger, Alaska’s Energy Desk
    Reporter

    Krysti Shallenberger reports on climate, energy and natural resources development for KYUK. She travels to Alaska by way of Washington D.C., where she was an editor at Utility Dive, a trade publication, and a reporting fellow at E&E News....

  • Petra Harpak
    Administrative Assistant

  • S. Grady Deaton
    Live Content Producer
    Coffee@KYUK

    Grady is from all over Born in New Orleans, raised in Brownsville, Texas, and hailing from Boston, Massachusetts. Here are his words...

    I come to you from the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where I was raised.  I have two...

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