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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.

Kerry Sheridan is a reporter and co-host of All Things Considered at WUSF Public Media.

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.

World Cafe senior producer Kimberly Junod has been a part of the World Cafe team since 2001, when she started as the show's first line producer. In 2011 Kimberly launched (and continues to helm) World Cafe's Sense of Place series that includes social media, broadcast and video elements to take listeners across the U.S. and abroad with an intimate look at local music scenes. She was thrilled to be part of the team that received the 2006 ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award for excellence in music programming. In the time she has spent at World Cafe, Kimberly has produced and edited thousands of interviews and recorded several hundred bands for the program, as well as supervised the show's production staff. She has also taught sound to young women (at Girl's Rock Philly) and adults (as an "Ask an Engineer" at WYNC's Werk It! Women's Podcast Festival).

David is responsible for individual and foundation giving at WBOI, including on-air fundraising. His background includes journalism and non-profit development. He spent two years as an AmeriCorps Volunteer before joining WBOI in June 2009. David also assists in the design and delivery of digital content through WBOI.org.

Jennifer is responsible for creating WBOI’s annual budget, completing monthly financial statements, working with CPAs on the annual audit, and handles day-to-day financial needs. She also completes and submits the Corporation for Public Broadcasting annual report.

Mark volunteered and also served on NIPR's Community Advisory Board before becoming the Director of Underwriting. He is responsible for working with our existing corporate partners to continue the development of meaningful relationships. He develops new relationships with businesses, large and small, throughout our listening area and also assists with event and program sponsorship opportunities. Email Mark Sitz