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Emily Jones locally hosts Morning Edition and reports on all things coastal Georgia for GPB’s Savannah bureau. Before coming to GPB, she studied broadcast journalism at the Columbia Journalism School and urban history at Brown University. She’s worked for the Wall Street Journal Radio Network, WHYY in Philadelphia, and WBRU and RIPR in Providence. In addition to anchoring and reporting news at WBRU, Emily hosted the alt-rock station’s Retro Lunch as her DJ alter-ego, Domino.

Brantley resigned as president and CEO of WBOI in November 2022.
Brantley has lived in Allen County, Indiana for almost 30 years, serving as a community servant, advocate, and trusted news anchor. In June 2021, Brantley retired from WANE TV as Indiana’s longest serving African American news anchor, to become President/CEO of the Fort Wayne Urban League, prior to becoming the President and General Manager of WBOI/Northeast Indiana Public Radio.

Bob Mayer is a native of Elmont (next door to Queens), New York. Bob earned his Bachelors Degree in Music Education from Butler University, Indianapolis, in 1969, and his Masters Degree in Music Education from Queens College, City College of New York, in 1975. His teaching career began in Port Washington (home of J.P. Sousa), New York, in 1970. Bob retired from the University of Saint Francis in 2015, where he was director of Bands and music instructor. He serves as a firefighter on the West Central Fire District.

Barbara J. King is a contributor to the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos & Culture. She is a Chancellor Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary. With a long-standing research interest in primate behavior and human evolution, King has studied baboon foraging in Kenya and gorilla and bonobo communication at captive facilities in the United States.

Zach joined 89.1 WBOI as a reporter and local host for All Things Considered, and hosted Morning Edition for the past few years. In 2022, he was promoted to Content Director.

Tony Sandleben joined the WBOI News team in September of 2022.

As WBOI's canine consultant, Helo patrols the station on a diligent search for snacks and attention.

He generally oversees snack removal operations in the newsroom. In Helo's free time, he enjoys snuggles and searching for lost toys and missing people in dense foliage.