 | Tansy Alexander - is a native Californian and has called Los Angeles her home for almost 2 decades. She started doing voiceovers several years after her arrival and has voiced countless projects including commercials, narrations, promos, industrials and voice prompt systems. She also performs regularly on-camera in films, plays, commercials, hosting and red carpet assignments. In addition to acting, Tansy plays guitar and sings in 2 local rock bands. She enjoys Pilates and Yoga, cycling at the beach, movies, animals, cooking, the outdoors and her newest hobby, acrylic painting. She also volunteers for Wheels For Humanity and other charities during their yearly fundraising efforts. Tansy is thrilled to be part of the AIRS-LA Volunteers, delivering the weekly Entertainment SDP on Thursdays. |
 | Robert John "R.J." Amador - A recent graduate of the University of California, Irvine, with a BA degree in International Studies and Corporate Management, has myriad interests and skills. Besides his academic pursuits, which focus on energy development in developing countries, he was a Division 1 athlete, locally acclaimed saxophonist, and has volunteered locally and internationally. R.J. is a Crew Leader with Habitat for Humanity. For the past few years, he has volunteered his time to work with the rural laborers of Leon, Nicaragua, building an infrastructure for agricultural education. R.J.'s job experience includes working at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spain, working with local real estate developers, and founding an internationally recognized non-profit project. He is extremely excited to read National Geographic from his new seat at Cambridge University in the U.K. - AIRS's first international volunteer! |
 | 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 Bobbin Beam. |
 | Actress Melissa Baird comes to us from Seattle where she graduated from the University of Washington Drama program. In addition to her stage and voiceover work there she also volunteered as a reader for the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library. In Los Angeles Melissa has appeared in the recent CBS television series, "The Fugitive" and on stage in "Proof" and "Everything I need to know I learned in Kindergarden." She is committed to serving the community and dedicates her volunteer work to her father, who had special needs himself. She reads Real Simple Magazine for AIRS. |
 | Roger Baker - resides in beautiful western North Carolina, where he has lived all of his life. "I wouldn't want to live anywhere else," he tells us. Having only been involved part-time in voiceover for about 5 years, he has found voiceover work to be extremely fun, very fulfilling, and has worked with and met lots of great people in the VO world. His full time career is in the electronics industry where he is employed by Tyco Electronics as a Metrology Specialist. When he's not working on voiceover, he loves writing and producing his own award-winning (someday...) music. In addition to AIRS, he can also be heard weekly on The News from the WWW, carried by the Illinois Radio Reader Association, and as "Blake in the afternoon" on a local Christian rock radio station. Roger currently produces the Friday Health SDP for Daily AIRS. |
 | Alice Baptiste - began her career as a voiceover actor in October, and has changed a hobby into a passion! She hails from Butler, Pennsylvania, works full time as the Circulation Supervisor at the Butler Public Library, and babysits grandkids. She's not sure where she gets the time to record Ladies Home Journal for AIRS... but somehow it all works. |
 | Bobbin Beam's professional career from behind a microphone began in Milwaukee in 1970, while she was still in high school, making her one of Wisconsin's first female radio broadcasters. Bobbin's broadcast career includes seven major-market radio stations, and two television stations. In 1984, Bobbin became a full-time voiceover talent and moved to Southern California. Since then, her voice has been heard in many countries, in thousands of commercials, narrations, audio books, documentaries, trailers and promos. ABC, Disney Channel, and Fortune 500 companies have featured Bobbin's Voice... warm, friendly, professional, and sincere. Bobbin enjoys coordinating the monthly podcasts for Readers' Digest at AIRSLA. |
 | 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. |
 | The Library Fairy® joyfully performs dynamic folklore programs for schools, libraries and special events across the nation. She promotes literacy, diversity and self-esteem while introducing thousands of young lives to the art of storytelling. Her company, Super Showstoppers, is an approved Arts Education Provider in Theater Arts (folktale emphasis) with LAUSD sponsored by their ACPN. She has university degrees in English and Communications and her articles on storytelling can be seen in L.A. Parent Magazine. Her children's book "The Magical Tree and Musical Wind" is now available at www.thelibraryfairy.com and other fine booksellers. Kids can visit her website and download fun coloring pages and bookmarks. Parents, librarians and teachers will also find valuable storytelling ideas and resources at the site. Sponsors interested in supporting the show may contact her directly. The Library Fairy's® fiscal sponsor is the National Storytelling Network, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | Darrayl Hampton - is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, and has resided in Los Angeles since 1992. He is a proud graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (Go Bears!), and when not working as a sales manager for a small telecommunications company, enjoys sporting events, trivia contests, and recording the ESPN Magazine podcast for AIRS-LA! |
 | 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. |
 | Bob Jordan - studied piano as a young man at the Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. He began his professional 'behind the mike' career 31 years ago, hosting a successful radio morning show in Southern California. From there Bob moved into production were he spent 20 years writing, voicing and producing thousands of commercials and promo's for major clients such as Disneyland, Knott's Berry Farm, Universal Studios, Sea World, Ford, Walmart and Media Matters. Bob has been a method actor for the past 15 years performing lead roles in many Christian and community presentations. He has also been the master of ceremonies for several big city Beauty Pageants in California. Currently, he performs the voiceover services described on his web site at www.thevoicebobjordan.com. Bob is honored to be on the AIRS-LA volunteer team, podcasting feature articles from Money Magazine. |
 | 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). |
 | Mike McGonegal - started his corporate life as hybrid IT administrator and customer service representative in the hotel services industry. After he and his family moved back East, he became a contract desktop support engineer (it's not nearly as glorious as it sounds) at one of the world's largest institutional investment firms, where he quickly became THE support person for the entire executive staff at the company's Boston headquarters. After that contract ran out, Mike got a job closer to home at a software company, where he provided support and training for both in-house and paying customers. He's provided what would eventually be termed 'e-learning' to such companies as Merck, Scotts Lawncare, CitiGroup, and the US Army Signal Corps long before there was a word for it... However, all things must come to an eventual end and since then, Mike has focused on building his voice-over business using both his 'geek' and customer service skills to his clients benefit. Mike makes his home in New Hampshire with his family and reads Motor Trend for AIRS. |
 | Ken Miller - A forty-six year broadcasting veteran whose career has included local and national sales and general management positions in radio. During those 46 years, Ken has had sales management and marketing responsibilities for the California Angels, Los Angeles Rams, UCLA Football and Basketball and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Currently, he is a consultant to the Los Angeles Dodgers and KABC for the Dodgers Radio Network. A longtime resident of Woodland Hills, Ken and his wife of 51 years, Marlene, have four grown children and eight grandchildren. Ken presents "Dodger Time" for AIRS-LA. |
 | Linda O'Brian - 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. |
 | Samara Pals - is currently a student at a high school for the arts in California. For the past twelve years, she has studied acting, dance, voice and diction, vocals, and several other theater arts related subjects. Some of her acting credits include Gertrude in Hamlet, Emily in Our Town, Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, and Athena in Olympus. Samara is very glad to have the opportunity to work with AIRS-LA by reading for the Teen Goddess podcast. |
 | Tony Pettit brings more than 25 years of voice over and radio broadcasting experience to AIRSLA. His voice has been heard on numerous television and radio commercials, corporate instructional programs, e-learning programs, book recordings and telephone on-hold messages. Among his clients are: The National Geographic Society, Houghton Mifflin, The Walt Disney Company, Red Lobster Restaurants, NASA, Nickelodeon TV, Amtrak, Bank of Montreal, Harcourt Publishing, Thomas Nelson Publishers, and Compass Learning, to name just a few. A native of New Jersey, he and his wife now make their home in Florida. Tony enjoys traveling, cooking, model railroading and, of course, recording Time magazine for AIRS-LA. |
 | Professional voiceover talent Donna Reed specializes in narration and broadcast promos. A native New Yorker, she is currently the voice for tv news stations and documentaries for the travel industry. Before working as a voiceover talent and her career in broadcasting, Donna served in the United States Coast Guard in Operations and Public Affairs as a photojournalist. She is a graduate of Florida State University whose professional memberships include American Women in Radio & Television and Women in Film & Television. Donna reads Redbook Magazine for AIRS-LA. She is also a mom who knows the value of frozen dinners. |
 | Linda Thompson - retired from her fourteen year aerospace engineering career to be a stay-at-home mom to her and husband Richard’s two kids. One of the real joys of this rewarding new job was reading stories to Scott and Bryn. Now that both are in high school, they run in horror from Mom when she follows after them trying to get them to listen to the still delightful (to Linda) books. Much to their relief, Linda is now reading for AIRS LA instead. You can hear her health news selections weekly, but, sorry, no Goodnight Moon. |
 | Eila Ulyett - trained as an actress at Corona Stage School in London for 6 years. After working in film and television she decided to see what life was like on the other side of the camera and pursued a career in Casting, working for Pemberton's Advertising Agency and London Weekend Television. In 1994, Eila and her family moved from England to California, for what was supposed to be a 3 year business transfer. But 3 years turned into 5, and 5 turned into 15! Now they are American citizens loving every second of their Southern California lives. Eila started her voice over career in 2008 and is delighted to be an AIRS volunteer in such esteemed company. You can hear her reading weekly articles from Business Week magazine. |
 | Paul J. Warwick hails from Boston, Massachusetts but now calls Orlando Florida his home. He's been married to his wife Lori for 17 years, and has a 16 year old beagle, and two cats, one 13 the other 8. When he's not recording and editing the PC World Magazine podcast for AIRS-LA, Paul's busy marketing his voiceover business through social networks. |
 | 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, she's working on several new podcast projects for AIRS. |
 | Melanie Wood moved from her native London, England to Florida in 1999 after concluding a ten year career in training, development and public speaking to pursue her hobby of flying. She continued public speaking while training for her commercial pilots license, which she gained in 2001. She started in voice-overs in 2008 and continues to record from her home studio between her flying career as she also fly’s Private Jets Internationally. Melanie’s voice is now featured in AIRS pod casts and she reads monthly articles from Oprah magazine. |
 | 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. |
 | As a veteran publicist and writer in Los Angeles, Margo Zinberg has touted the talents of NBC stars, sung the praises of Nickelodeon’s top tweens and toons and penned untold press releases and magazine stories. Eager to cross over to voice-over she has studied with noted coaches during the past year. Her initial foray into the field actually occurred many moons ago when she narrated an adaptation of The Song of Hiawatha at age 10 for Detroit’s PBS channel. She holds a B.A. in communications from the University of Michigan and a Masters in journalism from UCLA. An avid tap dancer, she performs with the Diane Davisson Dancers and voices "radio spots" linking musical numbers of the troupe’s "Spec-tap-ular!" shows. She also enjoys recording audio books for RFBD (Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic) and LibriVox.org as well as LA Magazine for AIRS. |
