Our Staff

josh moyar - General Manager

As general manager, Josh has the honor of sharing KBGA’s unique vision with the community through diverse programming and awesome events. A Chicago native, he went west young man and is working on his Master’s degree in Environmental Journalism. His favorite band is Twin Peaks and his favorite dinosaur is the Dilophosaurus. He is rumored to have a close, personal relationship with the Lobster.

MAllory peterson - MUSIC DIRECTOR

Mallory loves everything college radio. She uses her love and passion for music to guide her work as KBGA’s Music Director. Hailing from Minneapolis, her inspiration for becoming a radio DJ came from Northern Exposure’s Chris Stevens. In search of wide open spaces, she took a page out of The Chicks’ book and headed out west to study environmental science at the University of Montana. 

Renna Al-Haj - media Coordinator

Hi everyone, I'm Renna! I'm a cool cat from the mean streets of South Dekota! I'm a real rough and tumble kind of girl. I have a checkered past filled with adventure, schemes, and romance. My gang growing up was called Moths Boys and consisted of 4 people: Tuffy, the muscle of the group, she led her life under the lights of a pool table hustling suckers for cold hard cash. Lou Steves McCormick, He was the schemer, always had an ace up his sleeve and a way to make a quick buck, she liked her self a smoke more than a glass a’ water on a hot day. Then there was Ice Box, He was the quick-witted know-it-all of the group. We called him Ice Box because on the outside he was warm, but on the inside he kept condiments at an agreeable temperature. And then there was Rida Freedmen, aka Moth. She was the soul head of the group and took no shit. We called her the Moth because she was always flying towards the light but never dying, always toying with death, tasting it, breathing its air, feeling the rush of silence and solace that death brings and chewing through all our clothes. That was how my gang grew up. But now I've left the south Dakotan Countryside in favor of the big city. I've moved on. Put those days behind me. Where Lou, Tuffy, Ice box, and Moth are up to now is all folklore. But our pool cues are still scuffed, windows broken, and gum stuck to the bottom of the soda fountain tables. We will always be a part of a rapid city, we will always live on. Maybe in tall tales woven by the kids of today, maybe in the minds of those whose paths we crossed along the way. However we are remembered, Moths Boys will never die. I love to travel and I like dogs.

Allison - Intern

Allison is the KBGA intern. In her free time, Allison likes to do stuff and participate in things. Her favorite artists are Car Seat Headrest, STRFKR, and the Beatles, and her favorite way to listen to them is through her ears. 

Matilda Milner - Outreach cOORDINATOR

Matilda is stoked about college radio, and to direct all programs thereof. She is from Oregon and consequentially did not learn how to pump gas until the age of nineteen. Matilda studies English literature and music-wise, likes 90s alt rock acts such as Björk, MBV, and Sleater-Kinney, but only the normal amount and not in a lame way.

grace hansen - Program Director

Grace lives and breathes music, which is why she will always know more about music than you do. She inherited her dad’s vinyl collection and is therefore cooler than you. Grace grew up in Great Falls, Montana- the music capital of the world. When Grace started kindergarten, her mother, a former music teacher (and violist) wanted Grace to play standing bass, but she insisted on the violin instead (huge mistake). You can now find Grace suffering from incredible amounts of impostor syndrome in the school of music hallways. She is studying music composition. Grace would take a bullet for Beyoncé.

sam cittadini - pRODUCTIONS eNGINEER

Sam Cittadini is super stoked to do what a production engineer does, which I don’t need to explain, because you AND I know what that is so yeah no need to explain that. Sam is originally from Oregon (from the video game Oregon Trail). He recently purchased some Pit Viper sunglasses and people are saying they look super sick and that they fit his head well, and he shouldn’t return them for the other pair that they had that looked way better but the sales lady said they look a little too small on him and that Spider-Man Pit Vipers don’t look very good on a grown boy, even though he specifically looked at them on the website and whispered to himself “yeah those are the ones that are going to change my life, those are the ones that will make my co-workers at KBGA stop calling me ‘little wee one sammy boy’” so basically that sales lady can go to hell because she doesn’t know what a pair of Spider-Man Pit Viper sunglasses could do to a man and how much they really could change someone’s life. He is a Journalism Major.

halley linscheid - art director

she likes to make films she likes to swim she likes to dress up she likes to dance she likes glitter she likes aerial silks she likes electronic music she likes nighttime she likes trinkets she likes poetry she likes the magic in the world she likes summer she likes rain

Halley is a BFA digital filmmaking student at University of Montana