KPTZ Staff
General Manager – Taylor Clark
Chief Engineer – Bill Putney
Founding Program Director – Larry Stein
Local News Producer – Jim Burke
Program Coordinator, Log-Building Lead – Karen Anderson
Promotions Director- Genevieve Barlow
Underwriting and Business Development – Marshall Gouch
Volunteer Coordinator – Rachel Smith
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Calendars Lead – Jim Burke
Community Relations Lead – Chris Bricker
Emergency Team Lead – Nora Petrich
Log Building Lead – Karen Anderson
Our KPTZ MVP – Jerry “Mr Music” Osborne
Production Lead – Taylor Clark
Public Service Announcements – Randy Lyon
Remote Broadcast / Automation Lead – Mike Carroll
Spinitron Lead – Karen Anderson
Station Bookkeeper – Kim Jacoban
System Admin / IT – Rick Thomas
Technical / Web Admin – Matt Woodward
Web Editor / Production / Editor – Pat Rodgers
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Calendar Events – calendar@kptz.org
DJ Hosts (Live On-Air) – dj@kptz.org
Entertainment Calendar Events – entertainment@kptz.org
FCC / EAS / Legal Inquiries – info@kptz.org
General Inquiries / Listener Comments / Website – contactus@kptz.org
Music Submissions – music@kptz.org
News Submissions – news@kptz.org
Public Service Announcements – psa@kptz.org
Board of Directors
Jon Pinnow (President)
After decades of visits to the Quimper Peninsula, Jon moved to Port Townsend in 2019. He has a long history in audiobooks and public radio, recording for the Library of Congress’s National Library Service since 1989, working at Colorado Public Radio since 2001, and freelancing occasionally with other public radio operations around the country. As a kid, he built quaint little towns out of Legos, pretending to work at an imaginary radio station. Now, he likes making music, crafting stories, listening for ravens and living in this quaint little town, helping out at mighty KPTZ. Jon joined the Board in August of 2023.
Monica MickHager (Vice-President)
In 1984, Monica choose Port Townsend as her new home to raise her young family. She has been a part of our PT community as a business owner of a landscaping company (Budding Earth Gardening), has raised 4 kids and has been an active volunteer in our schools, in causes she cares about, and on city community boards. She was Operations Manager for the PTFF for 12 years, she is currently on the Port Townsend City Council. She started volunteering for KPTZ by helping to build our current radio station studio in 2011 and has participated in helping to coordinate our bi-annual fund drives. Monica is looking forward to continuing to build KPTZ. A top priority in her life is spending as much time as possible hiking this amazing peninsula on which we all live. Monica joined the Board in January of 2018.
Nat Jacob (Secretary)
Nat is a long-time KPTZ listener and DJ. His show, The Death of Comedy, has been alternately offending and entertaining the greater Port Townsend area since it first hit the airwaves in 2016. Nat spends his days defending indigent community members accused of crimes, and his evenings with his lovely wife, Ariel and their terrier Sonia. He enjoys Disc Golf, tabletop RPGs, and karaoke. He feels fortunate to live in the same community as the rest of his family. Nat joined the Board in June of 2019.
Christine Walsh Rogers (Treasurer)
Christine Walsh Rogers works for Glacier Bancorp and lives in Cape George. For many years she has supported local radio stations wherever she lived and after moving to PT in 2020, she began volunteering here. She is currently Lead Tabling Volunteer and Digital Music Assistant. She has been a board member of the Jefferson Healthcare Foundation and is also a board member of the PT Film Festival. She stays active exploring the beaches and forests of the Pacific Northwest. Christine joined the KPTZ Board in August of 2023.
Conner Bouchard-Roberts
Conner Bouchard-Roberts grew up just down the street from his bookshop in Uptown. After spending 12 or so years away he moved back to town in 2019. Amongst other things, he is the founder and publisher of local art-press, Winter texts, board-member of the Jefferson County Beacon, and a consultant with the Bureau of Livable Futures. Conner joined the Board in August of 2023.
Fred Flanzer
Fred and his wife Cindy moved to Port Townsend in 2020, concurrent with the COVID pandemic. Their daughter, Natalie and her husband Tyler had moved here in 2017. Two grandsons later, PT was the natural nesting place for adoring grandparents. After 50 years in broadcast radio (hosting, programming, marketing, and management), Fred wanted to offer his experience to our local radio station in hopes that he could complement the skills of the talented KPTZ team. His first official task as a KPTZ volunteer was cleaning the bathrooms at Fort Worden Building 305 in preparation for the station’s public open house. He impressed the team so much with his janitorial prowess that they asked him to produce promos and public service announcements. Why not? A few months later, he was extended the privilege of becoming a KPTZ Board Member, because one never knows when a sudden mess will need attention. He began his career at a free-form non-commercial radio station which thrived on the creativity of a college community. Fred says that KPTZ is the closest he has come to that through all of his prior work experience. His hope as a board member is that we can communicate to the people of the Olympic Peninsula that KPTZ is truly of, by, and for them; that we are an analog (on-air) and digital (podcasts, streaming audio, and video) canvas for their creativity. Bring us your energy, your enthusiasm and your creative ideas – become part of the fabric that knits our community together!
Ethan Raup
Ethan Raup is currently Chief Operating Officer for KEXP in Seattle, where he has worked since 2014. During that time, he has been involved in guiding the station’s growth and cultural evolution, working to invest more in staff and active involvement in KEXP’s staff driven Racial and Gender Equity initiatives. Prior to KEXP, Ethan served as Director of Policy and Operations for Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn. Ethan joined the Board in January of 2022.
Aliza Saraco-Polner
Aliza moved to the Quimper Peninsula in March 2021 and is excited to participate in spaces that foster connection within our local community. She hails from a left-brain/right-brain background, and has devoted a considerable amount of her time merging her joy for mathematics with her passion for creative arts. By day, Aliza works in operations and financial management for a global non-profit. By night, she enjoys wandering the woods to marvel at the mossy magic of the Pacific Northwest, painting, drawing, and writing about said marvels, and planning overly ambitious, elaborate, and circular meals for her favorite holiday, Pi Day. Aliza joined the Board in June 2024.
Editor / Production: Pat Rodgers
Graphic Design: Nate Malmgren
Admin: Matt Woodward
Port Townsend photography donated by Jason Squire Photography
DJ host photography donated by Barney Burke.
