Nicole Sawaya is the executive director of the Pacifica Radio Network. Sawaya started her career as a news reporter before moving into radio management. Since then, she has been general manager at KZYX, KPFA, and KALW. She also worked at New America Media and NPR in Washington DC.

In March of 2002, Sonali Kolhatkar, a 27 year old software engineer from Caltech, with a background in Astrophysics, decided to make a career change. She tried out for a position as host and producer for KPFK’s Morning Show, a two hour daily public affairs program. Today she hosts and produces Uprising every weekday morning.

Davey D is a Hip Hop historian, journalist, deejay and community activist, originally from the Bronx and now a native of California. He graduated from UC Berkeley. Davey D also pens a Hip Hop/Political column for the San Jose Mercury News. Davey D also hosts a weekly Hip Hop/Political TV talk show on Oakland's Soul Beat television... Davey D sits on the advisory board for civic organizations like Black Youth Vote as well as Rock the Vote.

Larry Bensky is a literary and political journalist with more than forty years experience in both print and broadcast media, as well as a teacher and long-time political activist. He is well known for his work with Pacifica Radio station KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California, and for the many nationally-broadcast hearings he anchored for the Pacifica network.

Aimee Allison is host and producer of KPFA radio's Morning Show. In 2008, she received an award from Project Censored for her coverage of Winter Soldier, an historic public testimony from Iraq War Veterans.  Aimee has been active for over a decade in telling her personal saga from Army medic to Conscientious Objector and counseling military members on how to assert their rights and their conscience.  She co-wrote Army of None (Seven Stories Press, 2007) and went on a forty city tour speaking to groups organizing to address the excesses of school and community-based military recruitment.

Mitch Jeserich spent three years as the Washington DC Editor of Free Speech Radio News, heard throughout the Pacifica Radio Network, where he covered the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court. Originally from California, Mitch covered the state legislature in Sacramento for KPFA. Before becoming a journalist, Mitch worked as a community organizer in both the disability and immigrant rights communities.

Nathan Moore is the Network Programming Coordinator for Pacifica radio. Nathan lives and works in the Washington, DC area, with occasional travel (as well as many phone calls) to stations in the Pacifica network. He began work with Pacifica in January 2007. Before coming to Pacifica, Nathan spent three years as the News & Public Affairs Facilitator (the workers’ collective version of a News Director) at WORT-FM Community Radio in Madison, Wisconsin.