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	Cynthia Black Producer / Managing Editor

Cynthia Black's background is as rich with experience as her show with political authors, thinkers, insiders and guests! An artist since the 60's her populist politics informed her choices and moving from east coast to west, she has performed with photographed or interviewed leading edge thinkers from 70's punks like Patti Smith to modern music greats like David Tudor and Composers Inside Electronics. Always looking for the single "trigger" in a work that opens its message to the audience, she says "Process is everything in art or life, people affecting circumstances and vice versa, then learning and improving. The best art is like life. It creates change."

Not content to stick with the arts, eventually Cynthia went to the opposite end of the process path: business! After running a variety of small businesses including what she says was her most satisfying work-- in mediation --she comments "Creating a business for me is identical to creating art. In both cases you start with a vision and must create a three-dimensional (real world) solution."

So now, why radio? "The important message today is political and the important art is restoration of representative democracy, because legislation affecting every artist, business person and family is being fixed at the top by special interest money. How can we be free to realize our vision, whatever it is, under such control? Creating processes for reversing that circumstance is now for me the only art --or business --worth doing!" --Cynthia Black.

Multi-Emmy award winner John Ridgway's internatinal media branding is viewed daily on six continents, roughly three-quarters of the world's population.

Through his production company Via Worldwide, John has provided brand design and strategy for some o fthe world's most-watched channels and shows, including: NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press, CBS Evening News, Monday Night Football, Entertainment Tonight, CNBC, MSNBC, and global events such as World Cup Soccer, Tje Academy Awards, and The 1996 Summer Olympics. Ridgway's world wide client base includes Paramount, Discovery, ESPN, NewsCorp, Fuji Japan, Hong Kong Cable, ORT Russia, Star Asia, RTL Germany, MediaCorp Singapore, and SKY U.K.

In past years Ridgway served as Design Director at PBS EIght/Phoenix and then KCET/PBS/Los Angeles.

Prior to moving to Los Angeles Ridgway resided in Arizona and is a graduate of Arizona State University. John was formerly Art Director of the New Times and his photography has appeared in the Washington Post and Newsday.

In the 1990's, he co-created the first television political campaign in Russia for the country's then President Borsi Yeltsin. In recent years he has consulted on American's world brand presence for the White House and the U.S. State Dept.

Ridgway teaches media branding at UCLA, Otis College of Art and Design, The International Film School in Cologne and has established endowed scholarships at Arizona State University and Otis.

Ridgway has circled the globe more than 25 times and visited over 75 countries and all seven continents. He now resides in Malibu, CA.

Al is an International Journalist whose credits include: The New York Times, Washington Post, International Herold Tribune. Al was also former Editor and Chief of the New Times Newspaper in Phoenix, Arizona. He currently resides in Laguna Niguel, CA .

Jesse is an Emmy award winning News Producer / Director, whose credits include: NBC Nightly News, Dateline, Entertainment Tonight, The Today Show. Jesse currently heads up his own Production Company in Hollywood, CA .

George is a radio Producer / Host who has anchored talk shows across the US, including New York City, NY and Los Angeles, CA. George is currently a producer for morning radio in the Los Angeles market.