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David Waddle joins HPPR as the new host of Western Swing Radio Rambler. For as long as this station's been on the air, he has been living the life of a would-be Western Swing host for a regional public radio station. He has been a country-and-Western dance instructor, live music entertainer, singer-songwriter, and advocate for Western Swing music across the Texas panhandle. (He also has some serious talent when it comes to making chili.) HPPR is thrilled to welcome David to our Saturday lineup of regional music programming, and we're kicking up our heels at knowing that Western Swing is back on HPPR!

Darian Benson is a reporter based at WFYI in Indianapolis. An Indy native, she is eager to report on public health in her hometown. Darian graduated with a journalism degree from Indiana Unviersity- Purdue University Indianapolis. Previously, she covered city and public policy for WFYI and statewide public health for Indiana Public Broadcasting.

Bo Hamby (he/him) is a producer and director at Morning Edition. His career in journalism started at KCRW in Los Angeles, where he spent a couple years reporting on local news before heading to the Columbia Journalism School. In 2018, he joined the Morning Edition staff. Since then, he's produced over a hundred Up First episodes, traveled to El Paso and Juarez to cover immigration and interviewed celebrities for a series of stories on their favorite artwork of the decade. He was born and raised in Singapore.

Ryan Finnerty is producer on Hawaii Public Radio's local public affairs talk show The Conversation where he reports on local and state politics, business, economics, science, and the environment. Before coming to Hawaii Public Radio, Ryan was an officer in the U.S. Army stationed at Schofield Barraks on Oahu. He graduated from the University of Vermont with a degree in economics.

Nina Feldman is an independent producer based in New Orleans. She produces feature news stories for WWNO and her work has appeared on The World, Latino USA, NPR's The Salt, State of the Re:Union among others. She is also the founder and emcee of New Orleans Ladies Arm Wrestling, or NO LAW.

Savannah comes to Wyoming Public Media from NPR’s midday show Here & Now, where her work explored everything from Native peoples’ fraught relationship with American elections to the erosion of press freedoms for tribal media outlets. A proud citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, she’s excited to get to know the people of the Wind River reservation and dig into the stories that matter to them.

David Condos is High Plains Public Radio's western Kansas reporter. Based in Hays, he covers issues that shape rural communities across the Great Plains — from water and climate change to agriculture and immigration. His work reaches audiences across Kansas through the Kansas News Service, a statewide collaboration of public radio stations.

Bailey Troublefield joined HPPR in October of 2020 through the senior PRO (Pursuing Real Opportunities) internship program at Amarillo Area Center for Advanced Learning (AACAL). She will focus on a variety of graphic design projects for HPPR’s music programs, development campaigns, and general station promotions. Bailey has played violin in the Tascosa High School Symphony Orchestra for the last four years. She is an avid artist and also dabbles in photography. Bailey plans to graduate from Tascosa in May 2021. After school, she’ll continue her creative studies at Amarillo College. Her goal is to eventually earn a four-year degree in Advertising, Art, & Graphic Design.