WBCR-LP 97.7FM, Great Barrington Community Radio

David Barrett
Vice President

Dave Barrett is a professional nonprofit fundraising consultant, based in Housatonic. Prior to founding his own consulting practice, he directed the development efforts for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the Berkeley Montessori School, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, Chanticleer, and the California Shakespeare Festival. Dave is also a saxophonist, whose performing and recording credits include work with Sam Rivers, Butch Morris, the Rova Saxophone Quartet, Splatter Trio, Tim Berne, Club Foot Orchestra, Sergey Kuryokhin, the Dead Kennedys, Banda Elastica, and many others. He is the host of the “Saxophone Power Hour” on WBCR, which is currently on sabbatical.

Jennifer Browdy
Director

Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University, and since 1994 has taught Comparative Literature, Gender Studies and Media Studies at Bard College at Simon's Rock. She has also been a member of the faculty of the interdisciplinary Project Renaissance program at the University at Albany, SUNY, since 2002. In 2004, she published the anthology Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean, which collected essays and poetry from that region's well-known and emerging women writers. A new anthology, African Women Writing Resistance, co-edited with Pauline Dongala, Omotayo Jolaosho and Anne Serafin, was published in 2010 by the University of Wisconsin Press, African Women Writers series, and is also being issued by Pambazuka Press in London for distribution in Europe, Africa and Australia. In her scholarship, teaching and activism, she has followed the trail of women's resistance across cultural and geographic boundaries, gravitating to narratives and stories written by women whose voices are not typically heard in mainstream U.S. discourse. Since 2002 she has directed an annual conference in observance of International Women's Day at Bard College at Simon's Rock, and served for five years as Vice President for Programs of the Berkshire Chapter of UNIFEM/USA (now known as Berkshire Women for Women Worldwide) as well as two years on the national Board of UNIFEM/USA. Her ongoing mission with her publications, teaching, organizing and public speaking is to open up a space in which the voices of women writers can gain a wider audience and be recognized and appreciated for their aesthetic beauty and political power.

Christy Collins
Director

Christy Collins is a web developer in Columbia County, NY with a long standing interest in community media issues. She has been responsible for WBCR-lp's website for many years and also runs CoCotodo.com, a user contributed events calendar website for Columbia County, NY. She has worked in both management and development capacities with clients including ProPublica.com, IDEO, The Stanford Social Innovation Review and BMI. She is also the president of the M-CM Network, a rare disease advocacy non-profit.

Peter Levine
Director

Peter hosts Jazz Straight Up on Sundays. He also works on the Tech committee and the Full Power committee and as a trainer for new programmers. His passion for jazz was a gift from his father. He was a jazz and rock drummer in college , studied with Roy Burns, and still taps and drums on any horizontal surface, to the great annoyance of everyone around. He started hanging around radio stations and hifi shops at age 13, has been building things with a soldering iron from the age of 12, is a Ham radio operator and did radio in college in Atlanta, where he majored in Mathematics. He and Ellen Croibier moved to Sandisfield in 2000 and share their home with Grey the cat and Petunia, a Havanese. Peter works in Lee, managing investments for individuals and businesses.

Paul C. Rapp, Esq.
President

Paul Rapp is an intellectual property attorney who lives and works in Housatonic, MA. Paul teaches art & entertainment law at Albany Law School and MCLA, is a member of the band Blotto, and hosts The Splatto Festival Fridays at 2:30 on WBCR-LP.

Nick Ring
Director & Founder

Yvonne Skiba
Treasurer

Yvonne Skiba is a tax accountant who lives and works in Housatonic, Massachusetts running her company Berkshire Tax Services. Yvonne's love of free speech and radio brought her into WBCR-LP and eventually led her to take on a directorship role within the organization.

Frank Tolopko
Secretary

Frank is a retired computer systems analyst living with his wife Arlene in Otis. He is a product of Manhattan's Lower East Side and still a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker. He's making the transition to country life in the Berkshires. Frank's varied background and career includes dabbling in electrical engineering, degrees in French and Russian linguistics, and an MBA specializing in computer systems. He has worked as a copy editor and proofreader, typesetter, computer programmer, information systems analyst, and a continuing education instructor. He has amused himself with folk singing and dancing. Frank's interest in radio started with his first crystal radio at age 5, continued with filling the audience at live radio broadcasts in Radio City, and QSLing shortwave radio transmissions during the turbulent 50s, 60s and 70s. These pursuits led to his interest in languages, history and political activism. Frank is the host of "The 9/11 Report" which examines the opening and seminal event of the 21st Century.