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Current News Stories
Suspect in Murder of UNM Prof and Grad Had History of Stalking
Wed., 10 Mar. 2010
FULL STORY
 Uranium Mining Permit Upheld in Northwest New Mexico
Tue., 9 Mar. 2010
FULL STORY
 Senator Bingaman to Lead Senate Committee Discussion on Stronger Appliance Efficiency Requirements
Mon., 8 Mar. 2010
FULL STORY
 Supplemental Medicaid Funding Approval Uncertain
Mon., 8 Mar. 2010
FULL STORY
New Mexico Business Weekly Report
Fri., 5 Mar. 2010
FULL STORY
 Consumer Group Issues Warning for NM on Health Care
Fri., 5 Mar. 2010
FULL STORY
State Workers Take Furlough Day
Fri., 5 Mar. 2010
FULL STORY
 State Democratic lawmakers want to explain tax increases to voters; Republicans look to November
Thu., 4 Mar. 2010
FULL STORY
State Senate Passes 75 Cent Cigarette Tax; One More Hurdle Before it's Headed to Governor for Signature
Thu., 4 Mar. 2010
FULL STORY
 New Mexico State Legislature Adjourns
Thu., 4 Mar. 2010
FULL STORY
 New Mexico Woman Missing in Hawaii
Thu., 4 Mar. 2010
FULL STORY
 Coss Re-Elected in Santa Fe
Wed., 3 Mar. 2010
FULL STORY
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Staff
Jim Williams
News Director & Reporter
505-277-8015
Jim's been in radio for 23 years or so. He started as a news reader at a tiny AM station in south Georgia, where the newscasts were twenty minutes (give or take a minute) long and included lean hog futures. He's grateful, he says, to now get to focus on plutonium pit futures instead.
He sees media consolidation and corporatization as giant red flags that the U.S. public would do well to recognize. He adds that KUNM called to him from afar several years ago and he had to heed the call: "Real community radio is a fading art, but a very few stations, like KUNM, are going to take it to the next level, and probably just in time...I want to do what I can to help make that happen."
Jim loves New Mexico: "An ideal day is a twelve mile hike up and down three thousand feet of ponderosa- and fir-covered ridgeline followed by a huge plate of the hottest red chile enchiladas I can find." He's also apparently fighting a healthy addiction to The Office...and losing.
jimwilliams@kunm.org
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Elaine Baumgartel
Morning Edition Host and reporter
505-277-9980
After living in New York City for seven years, Elaine returned to her home town of Santa Fe in 2001. She began volunteering at KUNM in 2004 as a phone room volunteer. As a graduate student in the Communication and Journalism Department at UNM, she was also a work-study employee in the KUNM News, Operations, Production, and Programming Departments before being hired on a full-time basis in the News Department. Elaine finds that her work at the station balances nicely with her academic interests in media analysis and representations of race, gender, and class identity.
elaineb@kunm.org
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Sarah Gustavus
All Things Considered Host and Reporter
Sarah grew up in Texas, but came to New Mexico after a stint in Pacific Northwest. She served as an Americorps and VISTA volunteer for two years, and then worked at KBCS and KUOW. She has reported for NPR, Weekend America, Making Contact, the Northwest News Network and various documentary programs. Travel is a driving force in her life. It was at a radio station in Cape Town that she choose to pursue a career in radio. She received an undergraduate degree in political communication from the University of Texas.
sarah@kunm.org
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John West
Reporter
505-277-8013
Raised by two academics, John West long resisted going into education, only to wind up working for KUNM.
The Democratic National Convention of 2000 was a pivotal moment in West's life. "I was on the front lines of numerous police riots outside the convention", he reports. As a volunteer legal observer for the National Lawyers' Guild and the American Civil Liberties Union, he says, "I became deeply convinced of the value of just reporting the facts of what actually happened".
West has been a member of at least one public radio station everywhere he's ever lived. "Public radio has always been my lifeline to the broader world around me", he says. In Albuquerque, he chose to support KUNM "because of the variety of news and public affairs programming. It's very rare," he says, "to hear Pacifica and NPR news on the same station, but it's a valuable dynamic to have."
While making tortillas for a living at Frontier Restuarant's graveyard shift, West first volunteered in the KUNM phone room in 2004, and rapidly found he could not stay away. "This is my sanity," he says about volunteering, and then working in the newsroom. "I wouldn't trade it for the world."
jmwest505@gmail.com
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Adrian Martin
Web Publisher
Adrian Martin is originally from Silver City, New Mexico. She was one of the youngest founding members of CATS (Community Access Television of Silver), the first all-digital cable access television station in the US. She also occasionally made bad jokes as a fill in on "The Morning Show with Gwyn and Lori" on KNFT-AM in Silver City.
Adrian is currently a Studio Art major with an emphasis on Making Stuff at the University of New Mexico. Her favorite president is Theodore "T. R." Roosevelt. He once shot a rhinoceros at sixteen paces.
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