Santosha Kuykendahl
Santosha is a seething Rochester-based stay-at-home mom. After growing up in a Marxist household, doing a stint as a Peace Corps Volunteer and marrying a socialist from the former Soviet Union, she had the brilliant idea of studying global business in grad school in South Carolina, of all places. She spent several years looking at the Confederate flag atop the nearby statehouse and ultimately made her mark in grad school by declaring one day that she thought it was tacky for the professors to spend so much time talking about money. Work brought the family to upstate New York, where they promptly bought a Victorian house that serves as the perfect setting for Santosha's retro-Victorian life: family, church, and neighborhood. Santosha is only too grateful for the fact that life has changed from the Victorian era in one significant way, however: bored, slightly hysterical young mammas are now threatened with pharmaceuticals rather than lobotomies, hysterectomies or other invasive cures.

Claudia Quinn Cashman
Claudia is a former professional musical theater actor and dancer.  Although she has had to learn to dance on the INSIDE lately, she continues her career as a voice artist, both locally and nationally. She is very excited to be part of "Life Now", as a Unitarian AND as a voice artist!  Claudia  is a writer, multi-media artist, photographer, wife and mother, animal lover, tree hugger, walker of labyrinths near and far and a firm believer in the strong connection that exists between her soul and the pull of the moon in all its phases. Intuition is the guiding force in her life. She greatly dislikes cooked peas and hot, humid weather.

Bob Thompson
Bob is a lifelong resident of Irondequoit NY, leading what would seem a normal suburban existence. But we all encounter turnings in life and Bob is no different. A single father of five, he is following the path of discovering new passions in life. His recently found interests include kayaking, cooking, road cycling and geocaching, all a far cry from his daily work as a mortgage banker. Bob's passion for people is what brings him to LifeNow! Radio. He believes that all of life's lessons can have a positive impact on one's life journeys. Sharing those experiences will remind everyone that there really are silver linings to those storm clouds.

Kelly Kilmer Hall
Kelly is a transplant to the snowy city streets of Rochester from the relative serenity of Happy Valley, home of Penn State University, where she grew up. Despite being raised in an academic environment, life has resisted her myriad attempts to finish her undergraduate degree, but it hasn't stopped her from working in a wide variety of jobs. Kelly has been a foster parent, worked in a battered women's shelter, managed a residential program for homeless adolescents, and has spent the last 10 years writing for a variety of alternative and traditional publications.
She and her husband Tom, a Rochester native, homeschool their four children and cherish the time they get to spend with these wonderful beings before they run off to pursue their own interests. Contrary to appearances, she does not "have her hands full," but enjoys the challenges of balancing marriage, parenting, working, and homeschooling.
Life is a joy, not a burden, and as they say, it's about the journey, not the destination. She enjoys sharing the stories of the world around us through her craft.

Dawn
Wendt
An almost native of Texas, Dawn settled in Western New York aftertraveling across the country as a lab tech and QA queen for a now-defunct environmental firm, and before actually experiencing a real winter. 
Now a web design tech for a local community college, she and husband/toymaker Bruce also travel the northeast selling toys at arts and crafts fairs, when not shuttling their two kids to school and activities, walking the new dog, or bemoaning the lack of progress in renovating their drafty old house. LifeNowRadio fulfills Dawn's lifelong dream of being a pseudo-NPR correspondent!