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RADIO COUNCIL
Dharma Dailey, Haines Falls. A media policy researcher specializing in community media and community networking Dailey's clients have included the Prometheus Radio Project, The Media Justice Fund and the Ford Foundation. Dailey is the Director of Research at the Ethos Group, a consulting company focusing on the social impact of information and communication technologies, specifically community broadband networks. Current Ethos research focues on information needs and flows of academic researchers, policy analysts, and network practioners who are interested in the social impact of local communication infrastructure networks. Recent presentations include "Online Participation and Democracy," One Web Day, Washington Square Park, New York, NY (with Lawrence Lessig, Susan Crawford, et. al.); "Grassroots Wireless and You," National Association for Telecommunications Officers and Advisers Conference, Atlanta, GA; "Data Collection for Community Wireless Networks," International Summit for Community Wireless Networks; and "Good Media Needs Good Bones, Feminist Approaches to Media Policy and Infrastructure," Women Action and Media Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Max Goldfarb, Hudson-based artist. Goldfarb is a radio artist whose work intersects many disciplines. He has exhibited at such venues as the SculptureCenter, NY; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Western Front, Vancouver, B.C.; Mjellby Art Center, Halmstad. Sweden; Art & Idea, Mexico City; De Stadgalerij, NL; and Fringe Exhibitions Space, Los Angeles, CA. His M49 project represents recent projects including objects, improvised electronics, radio transmissions, and performative situations. Goldfarb graduated from the MIT Visual Studies Program in 2006 and currently teaches at Parsons.

Hosneara Kader, works with Hudson Family Literacy, a group working in the Hudson City school system.

Debra Kamecke, is the Library Director of the Cairo Public Library.

Christina Malisoff, is Program Assistant at the Hudson Opera House.

Kathleen Packard, Greenville. Acclaimed for her ability to create beautifully crafted graphic designs, Kathleen McQuaid Packard founded KathodeRay Media in 1996, and has created interactive and traditional marketing programs for many highly recognized brands and organizations such as HBO, American Express, Pfizer, ABC Radio, Otis Elevator, Dial Soap, New York City Opera, CitiGroup and IBM. Deeply involved in her local community, Packard serves on the Board of Directors of the Greene County Chamber of Commerce as Vice President, and is a Past President of the Kingston Business Builders BNI Chapter. In addition, she has taught Multimedia Design and Development as an adjunct professor at Parsons Design School in New York City. # Andrew Turner has been the Executive Director for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene County since 1998 and prior to that worked as an environmental educator in the lower Hudson Valley. Turner has provided leadership for the creation of the Agroforestry Resource Center (The ARC). The ARC has become an important regional educational center with a focus on the ecological and economic sustainability of our rural landscape through workshops, community outreach and support to private landowners and farmers. Turner has served on many local and regional boards and has provided facilitation and planning support to numerous local projects and community initiatives. He also serves in a statewide capacity for Cornell Cooperative Extension supporting efforts to enhance the health and viability of a local food system in New York State.

Tom Roe, free103point9 Program Director, Acra. Roe is a radio artist who has exhibited widely both in the United States and internationally including at the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, at Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, Poland; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico; Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT; The Kitchen, New York; and The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida; among numerous others. In Sept., 2006 he served as a radio technician with The Wooster Group's show "Who's Your DADA?!" at the Museum of Modern Art. Roe has also written about music for The Wire, Signal to Noise, and The New York Post, among others. Roe has led many of free103point9's "Radio Lab" education lectures and workshops, at venues such as Columbia University, Brown University, Brooklyn College, Flux Factory, The Kitchen, NYU's ITP Program, RPI University in Troy, and other locations.

Alan Skerrett, President of the Columbia County NAACP lives in Valatie.

Paul Smart, Catskill. Smart has worked as a local journalist for nearly a quarter century, having served as editor of the Mountain Eagle, Ulster Magazine, and the Catskill Quarterly in addition to his current work as editor of The Phoenicia Times and Olive Press, reporter for the Woodstock Times, and art journalist and critic for Ulster Publishing. He has also served as a regular contributor to the Christian Science Monitor and written copy for a host of local organizations, as well as receiving a number of NYSCA and other public funding grants for his curating work, film series, and various fiction and creative non-fiction writing projects over the years. He is the author of two books and the husband of artist Fawn Potash, with whom he shares a toddler son, Milo.

Hudson Talbott is the Vice-President of the Catskill Community Center. Talbott is also the author of several children's books. His latest is River of Dreams, about the Hudson River and currently being turned into a theatrical production to premiere this summer.