About Global Voices Radio

Global Voices Radio is a non-profit corporation, based in Auburn, Washington, founded in 1993. Our I.R.S. 501(c)(3) number is 91-1618296.

For over eleven years we created weekly radio interview programs focused on the challenges facing our world with a unique whole-systems perspective. First as It Plays in Peoria Productions, then as Global Voies Radio, we created programming to support more just and democratic approaches to the issues that transcend borders and to the ways communities may respond to these challenges.

On September 5, 2004, we decided to suspend regular syndication of our weekly radio program, seeking instead to concentrate on our local, low-power radio service in the Auburn, Washington community, Auburn Community Radio.com as well as our local poetry series SPLAB!, or The Northwest SPokenword LAB. By August of 2006 we had turned over ACR to the city of Auburn and the local literary arts series known as SPLAB! evolved into the spin-off group known as the Striped Water Poets. SPLAB! itself continues as a labratory of consciousness using the spoken and written word to build community and teach people how to deepen their own consciousness through a writing discipline.

Many of the programs are available for a contribution to GVR.

On February 13, 2007, we launched Organic Poetry.org as an extension of the literary-oriented consciousness work.

On March 1, 2007, we began to focus on manifesting a vision for an artist housing project in Auburn

About host Paul Nelson:
"...a genius interviewer and visionary" - Larry Dossey, M.D.
"(his) sense of the mythic is down and dirty as well as sublime" - Jean Houston
"...a real radio intuitive" - Mona Lisa Schultz, M.D., Ph.D.
"...An original thinker and poet of the airwaves." - Jane Leavy, Author

A selected list of programming:

• Violence Against Women - Lisa and Mary Ellen Stone
• African-American Literature - Ethelbert Miller, Howard University
• Sustainable Food Systems - Tom Forster - Taproot Farm
• Same Sex Marriage - John Fisher
• TV and its Effects on Youth - Gloria DeGaetano
• Indian Activism - Russell Means, American Indian Movement
• Northwest Coast Indian Spirituality - Beaver Chief, Lummi Tribe
• Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks - Loretta Napoleoni.
• The History of the Decline of Wild Salmon - David Montgomery.

The Global Voices Radio Board of Directors

Paul Mallary
Board Member since June 30, 2001; Board President as of July 3, 2002
Long-term Auburn-area resident Paul Mallary serves on the Algona, Washington City Council, was Chair of the 31st District Democratic Organization and served on the Algona Planning Commission and the Board of Directors of the South King County Multi-Service Center.

Chuck Goodwin
Board Member since 2000
Chuck has worked in the field of Supported Employment for 12 years. Through his company Woodfrog Consulting, he provides employers and private clients with aid and information on issues pertaining to employment of people with disabilities. Father of two young daughters, Chuck has been an Auburn resident since 1988 and dabbles in antiques.

Fred "Beaver Chief" Jamison
Board Member Emeritus from 1998 - June 8, 2001
Beaver Chief was a unique, multifaceted, uninhibited Northwest Coast Native American who came from a long line of Shamans and Chiefs who have passed the accumulated wisdom (known as the Traditional Teachings) from generation to generation for many thousands of years. He passed away on June 8, 2001 and we will miss him dearly.