George Graham
George Graham was the first employee of WVIA Radio and has been on the WVIA staff since 1972. A native and resident of Carbondale, PA, he is a magna cum laude graduate of Duke University, where he majored in electrical engineering. Graham joined the WVIA staff in connection with the studio design and construction of WVIA-FM; with his four years of on-air experience at the Duke University radio station, he immediately moved into on-air work. He sought to bring the eclectic contemporary music radio programming that marked student radio in the late 1960s and early 1970s at Duke (where he was program director) to Northeast and Central PA.

He introduced Mixed Bag, which has become purportedly the longest continuously-running program of what is now called "album adult alternative" music in the country. Graham introduced Homegrown Music, a program to spotlight talented regional artists in performances from the station's studio. The series has been running continuously as a weekly series since 1976 and includes weekly recording session broadcasts and monthly live concerts performed before a studio audience.

He also hosts WVIA's All That Jazz and presents extensive annual radio coverage of the region's jazz festivals from Delaware Water Gap and Scranton. Graham has written for regional publications and also works as a freelance recording engineer, producer, and mastering engineer. In 2023, he received the Radio Broadcaster of the Year Award from the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters (PAB).

Kris Hendrickson
Kris Hendrickson earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from the University of Scranton. He has worked as a director, producer, editor, and graphic designer for commercial and public broadcasting stations. He has worked in the field of live broadcasting since 1990, directing news programs, live performances, entertainment programs and cultural programs. Since 1999 Kris has been part of the production and creative team at WVIA Public Media, the PBS affiliate in Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania.

Kris now splits his time between long-form and short-form multimedia and video production projects. His work has taken him around the United States and across Europe and Canada shooting, directing and editing nationally distributed series and documentaries. He is a two-time Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmy winner, an eleven-time Emmy nominee, and the recipient of six awards from the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters.

Some of Kris’s work as a director, producer, and editor include the award-winning WVIA series You’re The Chef, distributed nationally through The National Educational Telecommunications Association, and documentaries such as Remembering the Sirens and Wham-Re-Bop-Boom-Bam: The Swing Jazz of Eddie Durham, distributed nationally through American Public Television. Kris is also a director and frequent content contributor to WVIA’s Keystone Edition series, as well as the Emmy-winning WVIA digital series VIA Short Takes.

Loren Schoenberg
Loren Schoenberg is a senior scholar of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, on the faculty at Juilliard, and has taught at the Manhattan School of Music and the New School. Schoenberg has lectured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the White House, the New York Philharmonic, Stanford University, and the Aspen Institute. He has conducted the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra as well as the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, the American Jazz Orchestra, and the WDR Jazz Orchestra in Koln, Germany.

Schoenberg, a tenor saxophonist/pianist, has played and recorded with Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Heath, Eddie Durham, Marian McPartland, Clark Terry, John Lewis, Christian McBride, and Buck Clayton, and he was musical director for Bobby Short from 1997 to 2005. He also received two Grammy awards for best album notes in 1994 and 2004. From 1986 to 1995, Schoenberg oversaw the Benny Goodman Archives at Yale University. He has taught several education programs for Jazz at Lincoln Center and served as a screening judge for its Essentially Ellington program for 20 years. Schoenberg has been published widely (including in the New York Times), and his book, The NPR Guide to Jazz, was released in 2003.

In 2001, he led the effort to establish the National Jazz Museum in Harlem and served for more than a decade as its executive director. He created many of its signal programs and enlisted Christian McBride, Jonathan Batiste, Ken Burns, and Wynton Marsalis to help further the museum’s mission.