Welcome to our Board of Directors

Our Board Members

About KAFM Board Governance

In 2001, The KAFM Board of Directors made a strategic decision to institute a dynamic model of board governance called Policy Governance.  This highly acclaimed model allows Board members to focus on long-range planning rather than operational minutia.

It has been overwhelmingly successful in helping to create an organization that is responsive, creative and highly accountable for superior results.

By setting out clearly defined goals and policies for management, the board can focus on mission and strategic agendas.  Management, in turn, is given the authority and flexibility to operate the organization within these pre-established guidelines.  Policy Governance has been instrumental in creating an organization that in just a few short years has become one of the most widely respected and highly effective non-profits in the Grand Valley.

Board of Directors Contact Information

Bruce Bonar, Secretary

In addition to being on the KAFM Board of Directors, Bruce is an active KAFM volunteer, and continues as one of the original Studio D concert sound engineers.  He is also very active in local city government.  He is a member the Fruita City Council, is Chairman on the Fruita Board of Adjustments, and is also on the Fruita Tree Board.  He previously served on the Fruita Planning Commission and the Community Master Plan Steering Committee.

Bruce has a broad background of experience.  He was born in Washington, D.C., and graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in Conservation and Resource Development (Fish and Wildlife Management).  He has worked as a cartographer, land and river guide, race car mechanic and crew chief, worked in fisheries biology with Colorado River endangered fishes, and was Lead Quality Control Chemist at a chemical manufacturing plant.

He enjoys playing with old Golden Retrievers, old Landcruisers and sailing canoes.

Gretchen Reist Henderson

Marc Foster

Marc has born and raised in Wisconsin and has lived in Michigan, Indiana, Maryland, and Texas. He has lived in the Grand Valley since 1992. Marc is a trained wedding officiant and funeral celebrant, performing 50+ ceremonies each year. For work and pleasure, he has traveled to more than 39 countries. He has played percussions since junior high school, and live music of all genres and independent films are his entertainment passions. Marc is also a proud owner and rider of a 1981 Honda CBX motorcycle. He has three grown sons who live in Denver, Atlanta, and Bucharest, Romania.

Marc has been an on-air programmer since KAFM’s inception in 1999. Over these years, he has programmed several different shows. He also served three years on KAFM's first Board of Directors from 1999-2001. He was recently elected to a second three-year Board term in April, 2010.

Steve Thompson

Steve was born and raised in Grand Junction and have spent most of his life living on the Western Slope of Colorado.  He has many family members and friends that live close by and he owns a local company called Project Coordinators Inc. that helps people with projects.  He has been a member of the Kiwanis Club of Grand Junction for nearly 20 years and is a past president.  In addition, he has served as Housing Chairman for the JUCO committee for nearly 15 years.  He also has volunteered at KAFM for the past four years and currently has a variety show every third Saturday from 3 pm - 6 pm and a community affairs show called Construction 101 on every fourth Tuesday at 12:30 pm. He is now alternating Wednesdays from 6 am - 9 am as well.

During his life, he has raised three children, skied and climbed many of Colorado’s highest mountains, served four years in the U.S. Air Force, hitchhiked across Canada and has had many other travels and wonderful experiences.  During it all, music has been his constant companion and inspiration.  He has a great deal of fun participating at KAFM.  "The people and the experience have all been incredible and I would encourage anyone to get involved with these great people."

Claudia Ragar, Vice-President

Claudia Ragar, Development Manager at Marillac Clinic, has worked in the non-profit world for over 15 years in the area of public education and health care.   Beyond her love of a wide variety of music, she enjoys all that the Grand Valley has to offer in outdoor adventure and solace in nature.  Her greatest claim to fame, however, is being the mother of KAFM's youngest programmer, Dillon.

Craig Roberts, President

Tina Harbin

Cliff Sprinkle

Cliff came to the Grand Valley in 1992 from Scottsdale, Arizona and spent the first 14 years in the Palisade area and now lives in downtown Grand Junction with his incredible wife, Julie, and dogs, Georgie and Deuce. Cliff works for the First National Bank of the Rockies. Prior to all of this, those important formative years (mid/late '70s) were spent at the University of Arizona in Tucson, after which he began his banking career in 1980 in Arizona. In 2002, Cliff did an about-face to become a seasonal Park Ranger for Colorado State Parks. He did this for six years and between seasons, he worked and traveled throughout the US, Mexico and Canada.

"It makes me proud to say I have lived my entire life in the American West and value everything about it, with an emphasis on Original Coors. From standing on the summit of Mt. Rainier to bashing around in The Maze, the West is my soul center of the universe. In my estimation, KAFM represents everything a radio station should be: locally owned and operated, community based programming, assisting where it can and most importantly, great music. I am honored to be a part of KAFM and its terrific team of staff and directors."  

Jen Rieke Taylor 

Jen Rieke Taylor moved from nearby Telluride to Grand Junction in 1992 (or was it '93?) in search of a small town that exuded character and community.  It took a full year before she realized Grand Junction was that very place.  Fifteen years later, she is a business owner (Mountain Sprouts), mom of three, avid mountain biker, trail runner, telemark skier, aficionado of vintage motorcycles and Land Cruisers and resident Board Vice President for Grand Valley Public Radio Company.  She is proud to be a civic leader in this community by serving the Grand Valley's non-profit central nervous system, KAFM.