Karen Miller is one of FSRN’s Capitol Hill reporters. A born and bred Hoosier (that means she’s from Indiana for all you non-Midwest types) she was first introduced to Pacifica when she used to listen on the beach in Santa Barbara, California where she lived for 9 years. Her background includes working in journalism in various places around the country; WBST-Muncie, Indiana, KVEN-Ventura, California, Marcus Media, Indianapolis, Indiana and as an intern at CNN in their Washington DC Bureau. In addition to her media background, Karen has also worked in the non-profit world. She is most proud of her work advocating for persons with developmental disabilities and has also traveled to Africa to work in aids orphanages and clinics.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Thandisizwe Chimurenga has been a writer and activist for the past 20-something years. She has been a volunteer for WRFG 89.3 FM in Atlanta, GA, Berkeley Liberation Radio and KPFA in Berkeley, CA, and she is the co-founder and co-host of "Some of Us Are Brave: A Black Women's Radio Program" that airs on KPFK - Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles. Thandisizwe has filed for the KPFK Evening News and Free Speech Radio News since the fall of 2006 and is currently developing the Ida B. Wells Institute whose mission is to counter the marginalization of Black women and girls and their communities by providing them with the tools of Emancipatory Journalism and hands-on media production for the creation and distribution of their voices, viewpoints, and experiences.

Haider Rizvi has been reporting for FSRN since 2002. He specializes in international human rights issues and sustainable development as well as disarmament, women's rights, and indigenous peoples' rights. Based at the UN headquarters in New York, he also writes news and analysis for several global media outlets, including the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and OneWorld.net.

Leigh Ann Caldwell is the Washington, D.C. News Editor for Free Speech Radio News. FSRN is the only progressive daily news outlet that covers the US Congress, the Supreme Court, and the White House. Leigh Ann has been a reporter for FSRN since 2004 where she covered the United Nations and national issues from New York City.

She reported from the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City and on the 2004 elections from the swing state of Nevada. Before that she reported for WBAI in New York City where she covered the rebuilding efforts of Manhattan after September 11th.

Aaron Glantz has visited Iraq three times during the U.S. occupation: for a month immediately after the fall of Saddam Hussein; from February to May 2004; and during the elections in January of 2005. His work from Iraq has also been syndicated to newspapers around the world by Inter Press News Service.

He is author of the San Francisco Chronicle best-selling book How America Lost Iraq (Penguin/2005), which describes how the war turned to disaster from the perspective of the Iraqi people.

Zack Baddorf is a freelance journalist based in Vancouver and has reported for FSRN from the US, Cambodia, Korea, and India. He also filed features and headlines regularly while living and working in Tokyo for two years. His journalism work with the US military took him around Asia, the Pacific, and the Middle East, including to Iraq and Kuwait.

He reported from aboard a Singaporean naval vessel in the Northern Arabian Gulf, in caves below an American military base in Japan, airborne over Australia, next to a cadaver in Nepal, at a WWII cemetery in the Philippines, about moose in Alaska, on a graduation of recruits at an Iraqi naval base, etc.

Kellia Ramares is a freelance journalist, poet and baseball blogger from Oakland, CA. Her work has aired  on KPFA-FM (http://www.kpfa.org), KPFT-FM (http://www.kpft.org), Free Speech Radio News (http://www.fsrn.org), Women's International News Gathering Service (http://www.wings.org), Global Public Media (http://globalpublicmedia.com) and Workers' Independent News (http://www.laborradio.org). She is most interested in nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, radio frequency ID tags, Peak Oil, the police state tactics of the US Government, and sports, especially baseball. Her journalism website is Radio Internet Story Exchange (http://www.rise4news.net), which collects articles and book reviews on R.I.S.E.

Melinda Tuhus is an independent journalist with 20 years' experience in print and radio, including The New York Times, Free Speech Radio News and public radio outlets, and three years' experience reporting for on-line-only publications (including Women's eNews and the "hyper-local" newhavenindependent.org.)  Over the years, she has developed special interest in environmental coverage, women's issues, and criminal justice/prison issues. She is based in New Haven, Connecticut, and has won several state, regional and international awards for her work.