Kevin Vance

Kevin Vance is an Announcer, Producer, and Music program host at KALW Public Media, where he's the local host of Morning Edition, studio operator for Your Call, and producer of the folk music show, A Patchwork Quilt.

Before joining KALW, Kevin was a daily board operator at KPFA, a bookseller and shipping/receiving at Cody's Books in Berkeley, and a student at Laney Community College in Oakland, where he worked for the school's cable TV station and performed as well as worked tech for a number of plays in Laney's Theatre Arts department. Kevin came to KALW in the early 90s in his 30s and Kevin's special for Martin Luther King's birthday won the Silver Reel award with the National Federation of Community Broadcasters.

Kevin is particularly interested in issues of history and international relations, recovery from addiction, justice for the bullied, as well as Comic Art, and Kevin is committed to non-commercial broadcasting.

When not working, He's listening to music, riding a bicycle, playing a guitar, being part of a family, and napping.