 | Max Flehinger - our Board Chairman, has a long resume in public service. He was past Chairman of the Board of the Los Angeles unit of Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, Director of Volunteers for the Los Angeles Radio Reading Service (LARRS) for ten years, and a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Tarzana Neighborhood Council and the Tarzana Community Center. Along with other former volunteers at LAARS, he founded AIRS in 2005. |
 | Dr. Bill Takeshita - is the founder of the Dr. Bill Takeshita Foundation, which provides information and assistance to help children who are visually impaired. The Foundation was established in 2004 after Dr. Takeshita, a pediatric low vision optometrist ironically lost his own sight, but gained a new perspective on vision impairment. |
 | Jeff Peters - AIRS's Board Vice Chairman is another volunteer from LARRS. He is an actor, composer and performer who has been involved in the recording industry since 1989. He has a degree in music theory and composition from the University of Texas. He has been a Music Producer of many album projects, film scores, commercials and corporate shows as well as several Six Flags theme park shows. Aside from performing, Jeff also has a Pro Tools-, Logic- and Final Cut-equipped production studio where he does Post Sound, Video Production and Editing as well as Music Writing and Arranging. |
 | Richard Burden - our Treasurer is an AIRS founding member and former Chief Engineer. He has been a broadcast engineer for more than fifty years. He was instrumental in bringing FM stereo to the public and is one of only seven colleagues who have been given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Broadcast Engineers. He currently operates Burden & Associates, his own broadcast systems engineering firm. |
 | Joe Jurca - AIRS Secretary, has 40 years experience as an Aerospace and Sonar Systems Engineer, 15 years of which was spent managing military contract proposal teams. He was named Engineer of the Year by his company and once won a special award for excellence running a losing proposal effort (Really! - Ask him about it. It was like winning second place in a tug-of-war.) Since his retirement in 2000, he has been a volunteer reader at Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFBD), in Reseda, CA. He is currently AIRS's Chief Engineer and assistant web designer and records a series of podcasts featuring scientific articles from popular journals. He enjoys reading the printed word, one of the most intimate and imaginative forms of communication, so much he can't imagine life without it. |
 | Jack Caulfield - also an engineer by training, served as project manager for the recently - completed recording studio for LARRS. Currently he is office and finance manager of a niche business serving the entertainment industry worldwide. He spent thirty years with Rockwell International, the last fifteen in the corporate office in various capacities. Jack is legally blind. |
 | Rick Gerber - following graduation from law school, received a Ford Foundation Fellowship to become only the third American attorney to work as an intern in the Legal Service of the European Economic Community. For many years he lived in Brussels. Until his retirement, Rick served as director, Vice-President, and Regional Counsel for Federal Express in Brussels. |
 | Paul Harris - is a professional web designer, running his own firm, Paul Harris Web Design. He has contributed many hours to the design and maintenance of the AIRS web site. |
 | Anne Marie Howard - is an actress and voice-over artist. She is the spokeswoman for the National Association of Realtors and was recently the Ditech spokeswoman. She appears regularly in primetime television series such as Criminal Minds, Cold Case and Las Vegas, as well as in feature films such as The Weather Man and Blue Streak. Watch for her in the Adam Sandler film opening in June. |
| No photo available | Patricia Jordan - is the Public Information Manager for the nonprofit Center for the Partially Sighted, a low vision rehabilitation agency helping children and adults with impaired sight maintain their independence. The Center has offices in Los Angeles, Tarzana, Torrance and San Luis Obispo. Patricia speaks to the public about maintaining healthy vision and about how to find help when vision fails. |
 | Kristin Macdonald began her television career doing research at Eyewitness News in Manhattan. After graduating with honors in film and television, she landed a spot in news setting up stories for reporters and pitching new segments. The Executive Producer was impressed with her ability to book talent and hired her as a freelance Associate Producer for his company, Troika Productions. Kristin learned how to produce telethons and went on to produce the Los Angeles Easter Seal Telethon, hosted by Alec Baldwin and Heart of the Nation with Ed McMahon. Working with people with disabilities was rewarding for Kristin and, at the time, she had no idea she would be facing the challenge of vision impairment. |
 | Janet Ault - After 20 years as a successful account executive for such companies as United Telecommunications, 3M, and Bell Atlantic, Janet got off the corporate merry-go-round to be an at-home mom to her only child, Natalie. When Natalie entered first grade, Janet decided to try her hand at her life-long dream: voiceover. After training for a solid year, she slowly, but surely, built up a clientele. Being a freelance talent allows her the flexibility to pursue the career she always dreamed of yet be available as wife and mother. Janet has voiced projects for Disney, Six Flags, Hasbro, Dial Corporation, CSK Auto, Fisher-Price, Pei Wei Asian Diners, as well as scores of local and regional clients. She adds her talents to the monthly podcast of the Reader's Digest coordinated by Julie Williams. |
 | Cynthia Citron - has lived and worked on every continent except Antarctica as a journalist, communications specialist, documentary screenwriter and theater reviewer. She was Director of Publications at Boston University, serving as editor of Bostonia, the University's award-winning alumni magazine; an associate vice president of the University of Hartford; Communications Director for CARE, the international relief and development agency; and Public Relations Director for City of Hope. At Boston University she also served as public relations director for the School for the Arts. She is also the co-founder of Earthwatch, the scientific research expedition organization. Her honors and awards include: the Haile Selassie Gold Medal for services to the Ethiopian Empire, the Exceptional Achievement Award for Bostonia Magazine, medals from the International Film Festival of New York for Fighting Famine in Africa and the Chicago Film Festival, for Man in Ethiopia. |
 | Nancy Codina - spent over 20 years of her career in the Telecommunications Industry, primarily in management and sales of large communications systems to Fortune 100 and leading global companies. She was previously a volunteer reader for Los Angeles Radio Reading Service (LARRS) and for Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFBD) in Hollywood. |
 | Ed Fallin III - with a Master's degree in engineering, was an editor and reader for LARRS for three years. In school, he was chief announcer and disc jockey for the U. of Maryland radio station. In addition to aerospace engineering, Ed has been president of a shopping center merchants' association and a radio and movie actor. |
 | Veronica Garcia - is a recent graduate of Cal State University, Northridge, with a BA degree in Journalism. She plans to follow up on that accomplishment with a law degree at either Berkeley or USC. Her job experience includes Public Relations work for the Plaza del Sol Performing Arts Center at CSUN and a stint at FM radio station KCSN, where she wrote news summaries. Veronica has also written articles for El Nuevo Sol, the Spanish-language newspaper at CSUN. Her hobbies include participating in church activities at Centro Familiar Cristiano, in Sylmar; traveling; and, of course, reading La Opinión for AIRS. |
 | Philip Gibbons - is a voice-over actor home-based in Cookeville, Tennessee, So naturally, he is AIRS's "Tennessee Volunteer." He has been on the air since the age of 15, more than 30 years. He is a deejay on FM channel 94.7, the "Country Giant," and has recently had the honor of introducing country acts for the Grand Ole Opry radio broadcast on "Giant Night at the Opry," at the historic Ryman Auditorium. Philip podcasts article selections from People Magazine for AIRS and is the public address announcer for the Tennessee Technological University football games and womens basketball games. To send Philip an e-mail, just click on his photo. |
 | DC Goode - has been a VO pro since 1984 and was in radio for 10 years before that. After 20 years in Los Angeles and Orange County, Ca. working in radio, TV, as an actor, VO and variety artist; he moved to Northern California in 1995, where he has a VO studio with ISDN and phone patch serving VO clients all over the world. Most recently he can be heard on radio spots for Time Warner, Frontier Airlines and TV commercials for Microsoft, GMC, Cadillac, Rush Copley Hospital and many more. He also can be heard in Documentaries, audiobooks, narrations, MOH and IVR for several companies and he provides characters for Interactive games. In the Looping and ADR department, his most recent work is in the movie Zodiac, now out on DVD. He also coaches talent and, of course, reads for the Reader's Digest Series for AIRS. |
 | Harlan Hogan - has been a full time voice actor for over 30 years. You might recognize his voice from many classic ads. Hallmark: "When you care enough to send the very best." Raid! "Kills bugs fast - Kills bugs Dead." Even Quaker Life’s immortal: "It’s cereal even Mikey likes." Today, you hear him on commercials for Cracker Barrel and Ford trucks and documentaries like "The Life and Tragedy of Louis Sullivan" and "Storm Warriors. Heroes of the shipwreck Coast." Harlan is also that voice that thanks you for you generous contribution to PBS. He lives in the Chicagoland area and contributes his talents to Readers Digest series for AIRS. |
 | Alexis Kent - has been recording audio books for the Braille Institute for ten years. She is a voice-over actor in commercials and trailers and an ex-dancer. She too, was a LARRS volunteer. |
 | Bill Lee - His parents are his heroes! They married while working at the same radio station, so he grew up in a radio family, and as a result, got an early start on the air at age 14. He's been in radio for 30 years and voice-overs since 1993. He's worked markets as small as Colorado City, Texas (population 4500) and as large as Dallas (population roughly 4 million.) He does work for radio and television stations across the country, is the voice of "Announcer Roy" on South Park's video game "Chef's Luv Shak," and considers reading for the Boise state historical library "Books on Tape" program, something thoroughly enjoyable. Bill is one of the talented readers of AIRS's Reader's Digest series. |
 | Danielle Lescure - is an actor and model on the rise. She's very proud to be working with such wonderful, talented folks and a great organization, for which she has found time to read LA Times articles and fill-in as scheduler (the most demanding of the volunteer job categories at AIRS). |
 | Linda O'Brien - is a voice actor with 20+ years experience and a client list that includes SONY, the Beverly Hills Hotel & Spa, Arm & Hammer Tooth Paste, CVS Pharmacy, Fantastic Sams, Verizon, Century 21, NAPA Auto Parts, Johnson & Johnson, Bell Helicoptor, Focus on the Family, Compassion International, Mercury Records, Way Out West Stores, Midwest Mechanical, Dallas Community Colleges, Vartec Telecom, GTE On-Call, Dollar General, Coca-Cola Bottling, Relax the Back Stores, Budget Rent-A-Car, Southwestern Bell, Sprint, MCI, Texas Instruments, Hills Science Diet, Hewlett Packard, Turbo Tax, American Heart Association, Walmart, Geico, ABC Radio Network, WOOD-TV(NBC), Family Life Radio and many more! She is the host of United Stations Radio Network's American Christian Music Review and reads articles from Reader's Digest for AIRS. |
 | Georgette Perna - is a full-time commercial and animation voiceover professional in Los Angeles. After many years as both an attorney and attorney search consultant, she made the leap to pursue her passion for animation voiceover in 2007. Georgette was selected as a finalist for "Best New Voice" for the 2008 Voicey Awards, and she is currently providing voices for a variety of programs including children’s television, DVD, educational, interactive game, and commercial programming. She is on the Ice Axe Kids Foundation Board of Directors. |
 | Larry Wayne - is currently on the air in the evening with the nationwide K-LOVE radio network. Residing near Sacramento, CA. with his wife of 27 years, he spends his time with his adult children, being grandpa to his 7 grandkids, traveling, and reading Readers Digest for AIRS! Growing up near Chicago, Illinois, Larry remembers often reading Readers Digest, when it would show up in the mail - addressed to his parents! He always read the jokes first! Larry has been involved in radio broadcasting and voice narration work for over three decades. |
 | Julie Williams - is celebrating her 30th year in voice-overs. She has voiced thousands of commercials, narrations, video games, infomercials, documentaries, and other types of voice-over. Julie has been heard all over the world, and nationally on HGVT, WE, and other media outlets. She has served such clients as Coca-Cola, Pampers, Pizza Hut, Billy Graham, The US Army, US steel, Imperial Sugar, Sunny Delight, Dominos Pizza, Adobe, and thousands of others. Currently, Julie is heard on national Eyeglass World commercials, The New Body Shaper infomercial, and Skincerity Skin Care Product ads. She’s the voice of the video game "Stevie Learns Pool Safety." Last, but not least, her voice is prominently featured in AIRS podcasts of selected articles from Readers Digest. |
 | Dan Woren - For the last two decades, Dan has made his income primarily as a voice-over artist. He has been heard commercially as the spokesman for Pacific Life Insurance, Hertz Car Sales, the National Realtors Association, and Robinsons-May. Recently, Dan started recording books-on-tape for Random House - titles include: "Brother One Cell," "Under The Baseball Moon," "The Inner Game Of Tennis," and "Three Signs Of A Miserable Job." Dan is also very active in the cartoon/anime world, providing voices for numerous characters, including the tragic-hero Roy Fokker, on the "Robotech" series, Jagi, in "Fist Of The North Star," and Wilbur D'Anclaude, in "Armitage Poly-Matrix." Currently, he can be heard as the voice of Byakuya Kuchiki in the anime series, "Bleach." Dan spends some of his free time writing poetry, prose, and the occasional happy song. |
