This week, we take a close look at the history of an influential Spanish language community radio station: KDNA. Located in Washington State, the station launched in 1979 and serves a rural community which includes farm workers and immigrants. Our guest, Monica De La Torre, is Assistant Professor at the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University and is the author of a forthcoming book about KDNA called Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley.

Show Notes:

* Monica De La Torre* Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley* Chicana Radio Activists and the Sounds of Chicana Feminisms on SoundingOut! * Looking Back on the Lesser-known Histories of Chicano Public Radio on Current* KDNA radio station* Soul Rebel Radio on KPFK in Los Angeles* Bilingual community radio station KBBF-FM in Santa Rosa, California* KRAB Archive for Seattle community radio station KRAB-FM (1962-1984)* Womxn Who Rock collective* KRZA community radio station

Related Episodes:

* Podcast #260: Radio History on the Northern Border of Mexico with guest Sonia Robles (1930-1950)* Podcast #184: Hidden Women’s Radio History in Uruguay with guest Christine Ehrick (Radio Femenina, founded in 1935)* Podcast #134: The KRAB-FM Archives* Podcast #72: Pete Tridish Celebrates an LPFM Success Story (KPCN-LP, run by Oregon’s farmworkers union)