People

Donna Vestal is the editor of Harvest Public Media and is based at KCUR. She came to the station in 2010 after nearly 18 years as a business editor for The Kansas City Star, where she directed small business, retail,...

Elana Gordon covers the health beat at KCUR. She was previously a production assistant for KCUR’s live daily news show, Up to Date, and reported for the bilingual newspaper, Dos Mundos. Before taking the plunge into radio, Gordon...

Emilie joined KCUR as the Web Administrator in September 2011.

Emilie is an experienced multimedia journalist. She has done web production work for Marketplace and KPCC. She has reported for print, radio and online media outlets,...

Frank Morris has supervised the reporters in KCUR's newsroom since 1999.   In addition to his managerial duties, Morris files regularly with National Public Radio. He’s covered everything from tornadoes to tax law for the network, in stories...

Ever since he set foot on the baseball diamond at Fernwood Park on Chicago's South Side, Greg Echlin began a love affair with the world of sports.  After graduating from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, he worked as a TV sports...

Jenny began her radio career in 1994 as a news reporter for KSMU in Springfield, Missouri at Southwest Missouri State University.  She moved to Kansas City in 1996 and worked as an intern for New Letters On the Air.  Jenny volunteered at KCUR...

Jeremy Bernfeld is Harvest Public Media’s multimedia editor and is based at KCUR. New to the Midwest, Jeremy joined Harvest in 2011 from Boston where he helped build wbur.org, named the best news website in the country by the...

Jill Jordan became a phone volunteer at KCUR in 1991, and just couldn't stay away. After an internship assisting "Up to Date" Producer Stephen Steigman, she finally turned "pro" on the telephone as a receptionist for the station two years ago....

Julie Denesha is a freelance documentary photographer based in the Kansas City area.

Julie graduated from The University of Kansas in 1993, with degrees in Journalism and Russian Language and Literature. After college, she worked as...

Kathleen Connaghan-Gross joined KCUR as the Membership Coordinator in January of 2012.  Previously, Kathleen helped coordinate the Memory Walks of the Alzheimer’s Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and the first national conference of the...

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Kim Noble, Mid-day  host,  put down roots in Kansas City in 1988 after a few decades of globe hopping and calling Plymouth, England home. With a rich background in theatre, the transition to radio was easy ... she has "never met a microphone...

Laura Spencer caught the radio bug more than a decade ago when she was asked to read a newscast on the air on her first day volunteering for KOOP, the community radio station in Austin, Texas. 

After moving home to Kansas City, she...

Laura Ziegler began her career at KCUR as a reporter more than 20 years ago. She became the news director in the mid 1980's and  in 1988,  went to National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. as a producer for Weekend Edition Saturday...