Jennifer Waits, co-founder of Radio Survivor, is a San Francisco-based writer, scholar, and radio practitioner with a particular interest in college and community radio.  She co-chairs the College, Community and Educational Radio Caucus of the Library of Congress’ Radio Preservation Task Force and works to evangelize the importance of preserving and saving radio history. Before the global pandemic, she obsessively toured radio stations all over the United States (and a few in Ireland) and has visited and written up field trip reports for 165 station visits. A long-time college radio DJ herself, she’s hosted a weekly music show at Foothill College radio station KFJC 89.7FM (Los Altos Hills, California) since 1999 and is the station’s Publicity Director. Jennifer has a Master’s degree in Popular Culture Studies and has written about radio, music, youth culture, and pop culture for a number of publications and websites, including Radio World, PopMatters, Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, Radio Journal, and long-gone beloved teen mag Sassy.