People

Beti Montes

Beti was born in the historic city of Hidalgo Del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico and moved to Kansas City in 2000. She currently works in "Conexion Latina" a magazine to discuss Hispanic related matters. Beti started her broadcasting work with "Radio Carumba" several years ago. She is a happy person who...

Richard Mabion

Richard Mabion

Richard's main objective in the urban arena is to find more ways for people of color to truly understand their environment. As a grass-roots environmental activist in Kansas City, Kansas, he is presenting his philosophy of environmental organizing to neighborhood groups in low income communities by recounting his experiences with...

Lady D

Lady D hosts Mother's Mix on Mondays from 3 to 6pm.  She is originally from Great Bend, Ks.  She studied Economics at UMKC.  This spiritual being delights in her children and grandchildren.

Martha Mary Lally

Martha Lally is a versatile media professional. She is a native Kansas City girl, but was later educated at SMU in Texas (which explains a lot we can’t talk about here). She has years of  live television and radio reporting and producing experience, before living the life of a Corporate...

Carol Jean Barta

Carol Jean Barta (Co-Host). Best-known to KKFI listeners as “Carol Jean, the Garage Sale Queen,” Miss Barta began her radio career in the 1950s as “Kudles, the Weather Girl” on local stations WHB-AM and KUDL-AM. – at roughly the same time she was crowned “Miss Cinerama 1955” and “Miss Prairie...

Susan Sanders

Although I don't produce my own show, I participate in other people's shows and I simply love the comraderie. On the "Pioneer Series" for Heartland Labor Forum, I've interviewed women in traditionally male-identified jobs: a female pilot, firefighter, drummer, mail carrier, electrician. For "The Tenth Voice," I interviewed a woman...

MC Richardson

MC Richardson, host of “Guess Who’s Coming to Kansas City,” was a volunteer with KKFI from 1994 to 2020. Mr. Richardson established the Minority Broadcast Academy, the Minority Journalism Program and the Minority Opinion Poll.