Dan Bloom, Producer
Dan Bloom grew up in Takoma Park, MD surrounded by the arts, family and great friends. During his formative years, Dan spent many days and nights at Dance Place, the Washington DC studio/theater for dance & music founded by his parents, Carla Perlo and Steve Bloom. As a student in the School of Communications & Theater at Temple University, Dan first entered the world of public radio with internships at WHYY in Philadelphia. After graduation, Dan returned to Maryland and was hired as a broadcast engineer at the Metropolitan Washington Ear, a radio-reading service for the blind and visually impaired. All the while, Dan was angling for a position at XM Satellite Radio and he found his opportunity as a part-time reporter for XM’s Instant Traffic & Weather channels. Six months later, Dan became the afternoon producer of Instant Traffic & Weather, and then he went on to produce for XM channel 148 FIFA World Cup 2006, and eventually held the position of Technical Producer for the XM program ‘The Agenda with Joe Solmonese.’ Dan’s stated goal is to ‘bring the funk’ to The Bob Edwards Show.
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Chad Campbell, Senior Producer
Chad Campbell began his radio career at WUNC in Chapel Hill, N.C., where he also attended college, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in Radio, Television and Motion Pictures (Look mom, I'm using my major!). In the summer of 1993, he worked as an intern for "Weekend Edition Saturday" at NPR in Washington, D.C. Two years later, Chad was hired as a temporary production assistant on "All Things Considered." During his nine-plus years at NPR, he worked as a producer and director with "Talk of the Nation," in NPR's promotion and fundraising department, and with Bob Edwards for five years at "Morning Edition." In October 2004, he joined Bob and his satellite crew at XM. Chad now oversees the weekly production of Bob Edwards Weekend which is distributed to public radio stations across the country by PRI.
Chad lives in Alexandria, Va., with his wife, daughter and son.
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Andy Danyo, Producer
Andy Danyo got a degree in classics from the University of Georgia and quickly realized there wasn't much she could do with it besides waitressing, politics and radio. So she did all three. She held three different positions in the office of Senator Max Cleland, then worked for a lobbying firm, representing peanut and Vidalia onion farmers. She can still explain the peanut quota program in excruciating detail and eats a Vidalia onion like an apple. Before moving to XM Satellite Radio in time to help launch "The Bob Edwards Show," she worked four years for NPR's Corporate Communications Department. The last thing she did there was plan Bob Edwards' 63-city book tour, "Bobapalooza."
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Steve Lickteig, Executive Producer
Steve Lickteig (LICK tie) joined "The Bob Edwards Show" as a producer in February 2006. He came to the show from NPR where he produced and reported stories for "Morning Edition," "All Things Considered" and "Weekend Edition." He also produced election stories for NPR's National Desk, traveling the country with senior correspondent Linda Wertheimer. While at NPR, broadcasts of NPR's "All Things Considered," "Talk of the Nation" and special coverage.
In 2000, Steve independently produced and reported the radio documentary "One Family and a Kansas Town" which aired on 100 public radio stations and was funded by a grant from the Kansas Humanities Council.
In addition to his radio work, Steve recently served as assistant director and story editor on the documentary film Waiting for Hockney, which will be released in the fall of 2007.
Steve’s radio career began at KOFO in Ottawa, Kansas, a tiny AM station where he literally spun the country hits. From there, he found his way into the newsroom at commercial radio stations in Lawrence and Topeka. His last commercial radio job was in 1991 at the 50,000-watt AM powerhouse KOA in Denver, where he produced several talk shows. In 1992, he landed a job at NPR member station KANU in Lawrence, Kansas, where he reported and hosted the local broadcast of "Morning Edition." From there, it was on to a brief bartending stint, and then back to public radio at member station WUGA in Athens, Ga., then NPR. Also, Steve used to be a Marine.
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Ed McNulty, Senior Producer
Ed McNulty wanted to be a team player and write his bio in the third person, but he found it too awkward. "I found my appreciation for public radio in Iowa as a junior at Grinnell College. It began with 'All Things Considered,' deepened with 'World Cafe' and ended up with me securing a twice-weekly internship 77 miles away at the local public radio station, WOI/Ames. But I chose development, which to my liberal arts-addled mind, seemed more sensible than running around with a microphone. It was interesting enough and led to another internship — this one in Strategic Planning and Audience Research at NPR in D.C. — and from there, a job in NPR's development shop. But it wasn't long before I decided that one should do radio when one works for a radio outfit, so I finagled my way onto 'WESat.' Best move ever. I worked with Daniel Schorr and Scott Simon and all the great folks there, and learned how, when a story is done right and an interview conducted well, transformative listening to the radio can be. After six great years, I left NPR for the challenge of a new format on a new platform and since then, I've been happily trying to plant the pubradio flag on the untamed shores of satellite radio."
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Cristy Meiners, Producer
As The Bob Edwards Show’s sole delegate from the great American west, Cristy Meiners is trying to live up to that sides of the country’s reputation for brute strength and a no nonsense attitude. Unfortunately, her two degrees in the liberal arts and as well as a passionate dedication to all things pretty have made that a little difficult. While Cristy was a graduate student at Brigham Young University, she produced and hosted a daily radio show called "The Arts in Utah," thus setting in motion all future radio work. After a number of freelancing voicing and writing jobs, an internship with the U.S. Supreme Court, teaching college, and finally writing that master’s thesis, Cristy interned with NPR’s Arts Information Unit, and stayed on at NPR to work in various, albeit sometimes random capacities (she produced the funding credits with Frank Tavares one summer). Cristy happily joined the Bob Edwards crew in August 2007.
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Ariana Pekary, Producer
Ariana Pekary joined The Bob Edwards Show as a producer in April 2007 after returning to Washington, DC from San Francisco. On the Left Coast, Ariana worked (sometimes volunteered) at two NPR stations and KGO-ABC radio. Her love for public radio began during her daily commute to her first job, post-college (as a rookie broker for Morgan Stanley). The mainstream FM morning shows bored her so she kept turning the dial left until she found Bob Edwards on NPR’s Morning Edition. “Public transportation is an enemy of public radio,” she often says. She learned that quip from her first boss at NPR, the then Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin. While assisting him she completed NPR’s Next Generation Radio training program (where she completed a radio diary of a homeless man) and temped for Weekend Edition Saturday. At the San Francisco stations, she did a little bit of everything in radio – from interning to helping produce election night coverage to producing live, daily shows: KQED’s “Forum with Michael Krasny,” KALW’s “Your Call,” and KGO’s afternoon newscast. Eventually she found her way back East, to Bob Edwards, only this time at XM Satellite Radio.
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Geoffrey Redick, Technical Producer
Geoffrey Redick grew up listening to Bob Edwards on NPR's "Morning Edition." This early experience turned him into a lifelong public radio fan, and he decided to get on the air as soon as possible. That opportunity came at WOUB in Athens, Ohio, and he hosted programs and newscasts there for four years. He graduated from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and moved to Memphis, where he took a job with WKNO. He spent five years there, engineering live music shows, hosting "All Things Considered" and producing programs, including the weekly public affairs show "Smart City." In July 2005, Redick joined "The Bob Edwards Show." In addition to his radio work, he contracts with the film production company Bricker-Down. He narrated "The Calling," a Telly-award winning documentary distributed to public television stations via the network NETA.
Redick lives in Silver Spring, Md., with his wife, daughter and two cats
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Shelley Franklin Tillman, Editorial Assistant
Shelley Franklin Tillman is a Washington, D.C., native. After high school, she joined the military and served in the U.S. Army Reserves for 10 years. During her tour of duty, she was called up for Desert Storm and spent four months working for the 450th Civil Affairs Battalion in Iraq. She landed her first radio job in 1992 as the receptionist for NPR's "Morning Edition." She worked for the program for 13 years, eventually taking charge of all of the show's administrative, scheduling, day-to-day and long-term logistical planning. She joined Bob Edwards and the gang at XM in October of 2005.
Tillman lives in Upper Marlboro, Md., with her husband and daughter.
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