Interested in joining us?
We’re looking to expand our collective of journalists, activists, and DJs to help with the production of a weekly show We have a lift-as-we-climb model of mentorship and could also use help in web posting, social media posting, and event coordination.
Asian American musicians, we’re looking for music to mix into the show. If you are interested in contributing in this way, please contact us at apex@kpfa.org or 510-848-6767×464
Current Contributors
Jane Chang graduated from the KPFA First Voice Apprenticeship in 2010. Since then, she has been the technical producer for Free Speech Radio News and the KPFA Evening News and board operator for APEX Express.
Marie Choi is originally from Jersey and has been in the Bay Area for the past five years. As a young person, she was involved in community and student organizing around racial profiling, education, and building ethnic studies programs. Since she moved to the Bay, Marie has worked as a researcher, organizer, and communications staff for both labor unions and community based organizations. Marie likes cooking, gardening, karaoke, swimming, road trips, and stories.
Ellen Choy aka DJLN is an environmental justice activist, youth organizer and independent DJ from Oakland, CA. She is the Youth Programs Coordinator of the West Oakland Youth Standing Empowered team of Mandela Marketplace, a lead organizer for the Mobilization for Climate Justice West, and a member of a national network of young people of color organizing for climate justice across the US. She is a co-founder of ChecktheWeather and a firm believer of all things created in West Coast style.
Karl Jagbandhansingh is a graduate of the KPFA Radio’s First Voice Apprenticeship program. His activism and media experience spans from the University of Vermont to New York to Chiapas, Mexico. He spent over 5 years in Chiapas as co-founder of Estación Libre, an organization that linked the struggles of communities of color in the United States and Canada with the indigenous Zapatista struggle of Chiapas, with the intention of bringing the lessons of a vibrant grassroots democratic movement back home to communities in the U.S. and Canada.
Kayumanggí Kaloy, Selekta LapuLapu aka DJ “Bruddah K,” co-founded the KALX Third World Department and helped create the Communities of Color variety program at KALX called “Amandla!” He graduated from the First Voice Apprenticeship and co-hosted the Asian and Pacific Islander community show “Inside/Eastside.” He hosts “Roots Kommunikations” and is the lead producer of KPFA API Radio Specials.
Roldan “R.J.” Lozada is an award-winning filmmaker exploring marginalized communities, diaspora, and popular culture, engaging in dialogues of space, identity, and memory realized in narrative forms. Lozada was director of photography and co-producer for Among B-Boys (2011), which won the Audience Award at its premiere at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Lozada is also a content producer for Cinema Asian America, special programming curated by the Center for Asian American Media and Comcast. Beyond production, Lozada works in the legal field representing the condemned at San Quentin state prison.
The Shaolinbboy is an Oakland native, trained in the progressive arts of youth development, digital film-making, public radio broadcasting, and urban gaming. He is sustained by a steady diet of politics, pop-culture, geekery and the internet. Find the Shaolinbboy every Thursday night after APEX Express in the Rockridge BART Parking lot smashing all challengers at 4 Square of the East Bay. Also check his website for a sample of past radio and video work.
Preeti Mangala Shekar is a feminist activist and journalist from India. She also co-produces Women’s Magazine on KPFA and freelances for various publications in India and in the Bay Area. Most recently, Preeti was part of the communications team at the Global Fund for Women.
Robynn Takayama is a community artist whose work has been presented through video, web, and gallery installation in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Chicago. A graduate of the KPFA First Voice Apprenticeship, she has contributed to national and local public radio programs and the Peabody-awarded documentary on Asian American history, Crossing East. Robynn served on the CPB-funded Makers Quest Talent Committee, charged with finding the most imaginative producers and sound artists and urging them to take public radio beyond its traditional airwaves.
Thank you to our past hosts and producers:
Renee Yang Geesler, Pratap Chatterjee, Phatrick Huang, Eric Park, Ivan Jaigardar, Kyung Jin Lee, Kiwi, Kenni Camota, Lawton Chan, Curtis Loo, Nishat Kurwa, Yun Suh, Klay Ordona, Weyland Southon, Wayie Ly, Adriel Luis, April Elkjer, Jason Jong, Eloise Lee, and Amit Pendyal
