About KHOL - Jackson Hole Community Radio

Emily has served as executive director of KHOL since June 2019. She has transformed the station from a grassroots, volunteer-programmed effort into a dual-format station with an award-winning newsroom and a reach across the Rocky Mountain West. Emily has a background in ecological design and urban planning and has worked as a teacher on the US-Mexico border in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, as a policy wonk in Washington, DC and as a land use planner in Wyoming. She is an avid fiddler of Appalachian old-time music and other traditional folk styles. She has produced projects for the DC Fringe Festival, MIT’s Listening to the City Conference and the Megapolis Audio Festival and performed as a supernumerary with the Washington National Opera for over a decade. When not playing tunes or playing in the snow, she is working to tell the story of America’s favorite poor gal, Li’l Liza Jane.

emily@jhcr.org

Originally from Texas, Rachel first moved to Jackson during a blizzard in 2007 with her rear-wheel drive car. In her early days, Rachel interned at Alpinist magazine, worked for Jackson Hole News&Guide, and volunteered as a DJ at the (then) brand new KHOL. Rachel left Jackson in 2011 to get her master’s degree in media arts at the University of Montana in Missoula, become a creative director at multiple advertising agencies and—most recently—produced dual-format radio for 90.3 KEXP in Seattle. Rachel is a New York Times-published writer, PBS-published film director, and award-winning podcast producer who is honored and excited to bring her life full circle as she returns to Jackson in 2024 as KHOL’s Deputy Director. 

Rachel oversees KHOL’s major gifts effort and assists with programming. 

rachel@jhcr.org

For more than a decade, Jack, a.k.a. KnewJack, has worked numerous parties and events as a DJ, employing his genre-hopping, finger-on-the-pulse style that always manages to move the crowd. Jack has worked in post-production music and sound design on major advertising campaigns, an experience that helped fuel his breadth of musical knowledge. He takes pride in tracking down the rare and obscure, the new and unheard, the re-tweaked and remixed, and, of course, the classic and undeniably funky. All music, he says, is in some way connected no matter the style and Jack’s mission is to provide listeners with a memorable experience each time they tune in to KHOL or see him spin live. Catch him during his show, “The Heavy Warmup,” 8 to 10 a.m. weekdays.

jack@jhcr.org

Prior to joining KHOL, Reed’s daily commute took him up the Jackson Hole Aerial Tram as a market researcher (and Corbet’s Cabin waffle ambassador). Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Reed studied English literature, anthropology and creative writing at Kenyon College, where he also played lacrosse. Now graduated from the NCAA grind, he pursues more “freeride” forms of recreation, including backcountry snowboarding, mountain biking, rock climbing, and kitesurfing. After an adventure, you can find him at home with a Michalada in one hand and his guitar in the other, peering over his computer for the next day’s forecast.

Reed oversees KHOL’s business partnerships, advertising and membership program. 

reed@jhcr.org

Dante Filpula Ankney comes to KHOL as a lifelong resident of the Mountain West. He made his home on the Eastern Montana prairies before moving to the Western Montana peaks to study journalism and wilderness studies. Dante has found success producing award-winning print, audio and video stories for a variety of publications, including a stint as a host at Montana Public Radio. Most recently, he spent a year teaching English in Bulgaria through a Fulbright Fellowship. When he isn’t reporting, you can find Dante outside scaling rocks, sliding across snow or winning a game of cribbage.

dante@jhcr.org

Jenna McMurtry joins KHOL from Colorado where she picked up audio journalism at Colorado Public Radio and Aspen Public Radio. She attended Pomona College in California where she studied History and edited her award-winning college newspaper. When she’s not in the newsroom, she’s probably out in the field. But, there’s an equally good chance she’s going up and down mountains on skis and bikes.

jenna@jhcr.org

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Zoe was born and raised in Jackson Hole before skipping town to attend college in Poughkeepsie, New York. It was there that they began DJing with the Vassar College Sound System and WVKR 91.3. After returning to the valley in June 2022, they sought a similar impassioned music community, quickly joining KHOL as a volunteer DJ.  Zoe brings skills from their time at VCSS, WVKR, and as Layout and Outreach Coordinator at Grey Matters Journal, an undergraduate journal on neuroscience and psychology.  When they aren’t spinning fresh electronica for radio and local throwdowns, Zoe can be hard to track down, but they’re probably tattooing, getting outside as much as humanly possible, or dancing in a low-lit bar.

Zoe oversees KHOL’s social media channels and website.

zoe@jhcr.org