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Sally Daily is a receptionist at KCUR 89.3. You can reach her at dailysk@umkc.edu.

Mike Pesca first reached the airwaves as a 10-year-old caller to a New York Jets-themed radio show and has since been able to parlay his interests in sports coverage as a National Desk correspondent for NPR based in New York City.

Shawn is originally from Kansas City. Before joining KCUR as a part-time weekend announcer in 2006, he worked at KERA in Dallas and KNTU in Denton. Shawn teaches Digital Media Technology at Summit Technology Academy and works as a video production specialist for the Lee's Summit R-7 school district. In 2018, he was one of 12 teachers named Lee’s Summit Chamber of Commerce Excellence In Teaching award winners. He also works as a composer and arranger and a music educator in Lee's Summit, where he teaches jazz band and marching band at Lee's Summit West. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor of instrumental arranging at UMKC.

Stephen Steigman is director of Classical KC. You can email him at Stephen.Steigman@classicalkc.org.

Lloyd Schwartz is the classical music critic for NPR's Fresh Airwith Terry Gross.

Ben Philpott covers politics and policy for KUT 90.5 FM. He has been covering state politics and dozens of other topics for the station since 2002. He's been recognized for outstanding radio journalism by the Radio and Television News Directors Association, Public Radio News Directors Incorporated, the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters and twice by the Houston Press Club as Radio Journalist of the Year. Before moving to Texas, he worked in public radio in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, Ala., and at several television stations in Alabama and Tennessee. Born in New York City and raised in Chattanooga, Tenn., Philpott graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in broadcast journalism.

Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.

Alan Cheuse died on July 31, 2015. He had been in a car accident in California earlier in the month. He was 75. Listen to NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamburg's retrospective on his life and career.

Barbara Bradley Hagerty is the religion correspondent for NPR, reporting on the intersection of faith and politics, law, science and culture. Her New York Times best-selling book, "Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality," was published by Riverhead/Penguin Group in May 2009. Among others, Barb has received the American Women in Radio and Television Award, the Headliners Award and the Religion Newswriters Association Award for radio reporting.