6 years ago I walked into AINC studios to do my volunteer audition. I was so nervous – I thought I totally botched it! Kat brought me into her office and began playing my audio back to me. Of course, I was cringing listening to my own voice (who likes hearing their own voice anyway?)… But after some words of wisdom, Kat put me on Gilpin County News. I started volunteering at AINC to challenge myself to be confident in my voice. I  then made it my goal to get a job at AINC.  I’m celebrating my 4 years of employment at AINC. It has been a wild, but amazing, ride!

I had never needed to worry about the TP inventory in the men’s room, always well-supplied for our volunteer readers and staff, until we ran out. While the order was in transit, I used paper towels for a few days. Then our audio engineer, Katy, invited a guest: our old friend, her predecessor, Ryan. During his visit, he emerged from the men’s room and announced we were out of TP. I said I had to use the rough stuff all week. Katy immediately said, “Why don’t you take some from the women’s room? There’s a bunch in there.”
Now I know.

I started volunteering in 1999 reading children’s programming. For the first few months, I recorded on reel-to-reel tape. Recorded programs were played overnight using a VCR. I lived and worked in Denver so drove to Boulder once a week to record. By September the recording studios were computerized and I was working in Boulder so I could record over my lunch hour. I had no idea then that I would be joining the AINC staff two years later.

Where was I 30 years ago? 1991 I was in Polarity Therapy training, working a full time gig, working a part time gig as a clinical specialist, and teaching step aerobics. It was also when first became aware of the Radio Reading Service of the Rockies (original name), as a credit union was in the same building, and I first saw the sign for RRSR. It took me 5 years for my life to slow down enough to where I was ready to investigate what RRSR was all about.