Staff

Ed Bremer, News and Public Affairs Director

Ed has 30 years experience as a professional radio producer and has earned numerous awards for his work including two Golden Mike awards, six San Diego Press Club Awards and several awards from United Press International.  He has produced for UPI, the BBC and National Public Radio.  Ed served as News and Public Affairs Director at Spokane Public Radio before becoming News Director for KSER in 1991.  In 1994 Ed was named Station Manager of KSER and returned to News and Public Affairs at KSER in 2006. He is a longtime Everett resident.
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Sondra Santos, Host, Morning Program

Sondra's broadcasting career began back in her college days at Utica College of Syracuse University.  She caught the broadcasting bug after taking a radio and television course.  Through that course, she landed an internship with ABC affiliate WUTR-TV in Utica, New York.  She also hosted a show on college radio station 90.7 WPNR.  Since then, Sondra has worked in radio and TV as a field reporter, host, and associate producer, most recently at NW Cable News soon after relocating to the Puget Sound.  Sondra lives in Everett with her partner and their twin daughters.

Shayne has nearly 20 years of experience in the non-profit sector as both a manager and volunteer.  After working as a professional photographer for nearly 12 years Shayne decided to apply his passion for social change by switching careers to the non-profit sector full time.  Shayne’s experience includes fundraising, grant writing, public policy, community organizing, public relations, and marketing.  Prior coming to KSER Shayne served as the Director of the Meals Partnership Coalition, and has produced several studies related to poverty and social inequalities.

Katie has over 15 years of non-profit experience that includes fundraising, grant writing, programming, media relations, and public outreach. Katie served as program & communications coordinator at Grantmakers in the Arts and as director at both Center on Contemporary Art and Sand Point Arts & Cultural Exchange in Seattle. She began her fundraising career as a program assistant for Donor Relations at the University of Washington. Katie was a production assistant for NPR’s “All Things Considered” in Washington, D.C., and helped launch the community-based low power FM station Free Seattle Radio.

Chris became KSER's chief engineer in 2008, having previously served the station in a variety of capacities. Chris' profiessional radio engineering training began with the Navy, but his experience dates back to a childhood fascination with everything electronic. Chris is an active ham-radio enthustiast and a licensed pilot, and he continues to host the long-running Classical Edge program heard Tuesday evenings at 9pm and rebroadcast Sunday mornings at 4am. When he's not keeping KSER's equipment in tip-top shape, Chris works as a professional photographer.

Steve's radio career began in the 1980s with stints at 92.5 KZAM in Bellevue, and FM99 KEZX in Seattle.  For over 20 years he worked for two major media companies in the in-store music industry creating branded programs for large and small businesses.  More recently he owned his own media production company focused on music consulting and web-based training.  He continues to host the popular Saturday morning Big Bandstand program on KSER.  Steve lives in Edmonds with his wife Helene.