Meet the KCET New Media Team! Learn more about KCET.org here.

Web Team:

Gary Dauphin Follow @ebogjonson
Director of New Media
Previous to working at KCET, I built and managed websites for NPR West, AOL, Community Connect and other orgs. My writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Vibe Magazine, Essence, The Root, Interview, Bidoun, The Source, Lacanian Ink, and other publications. I also like to play the occasional video and role playing game.

Zach Behrens Follow @ZachBehrens
Editor-in-Chief, Blogs
Zach came to California in 1999 to attend CalArts for a degree in music. He took his creative degree to work at the City of Santa Clarita's Cultural Affairs Office before ending up in journalism, starting his career at LAist.com, where he served as Editor for three years. He's been with KCET since 2010.

Drew Mackie Follow @kidicarus222
Associate Producer of New Media
Drew Mackie, KCET's associate director of new media, liked shows about old British people before it became fashionable to do so. Ahem. A graduate of UCSB, he's been writing about pop culture for various SoCal outlets for more than a decade. Once he saw Julia Child eating in Santa Barbara, and it was one of the happiest moments of his life.

Katherine Spiers Follow @katherinespiers
Food editor and Associate Producer
Prior to joining KCET.org as the food editor, Katherine was a freelancer writing strictly about fun things -- travel, gardens, bars and restaurants -- for publications such as Gourmet, LA Weekly, Budget Travel and the LA Times. Before coming to Los Angeles she was an assistant at the AP bureau in Rome, where most of her time was spent buying batteries and cough drops for the Vatican stringers. Working at KCET, creating original content showcasing the best in Southern California eating, is much better.

Yoli Martinez Follow @yoli_martinez
Community Moderator
I'm a proud San Fernando Valley native who loves books and public transportation. I'm here to answer your questions, moderate discussions, organize contests, and make sure all our show info is up-to-date.

Henry Cram Follow @HenryTCram
Video Production Manager
A California native, Henry graduated from Laguna College of Art and Design with a degree in illustration. Aside from being the resident "video guru" (converting video for web), Henry also assists with editing and animation on original web content. His passions include sculpting, gardening, and cheese. To see some of Henry's illustrative work visit,

Jason Bazalar Follow @jbazalar
Web Programmer
KCET New Media's Web Programmer, structures and maintains the Television station's website and other company related web entities. Although most of his work activity focuses on front end web programming and working with a content management system, his past experience a systems administrator in the field of information technology broadens his duties to take on some common server based tasks that are needed to keep the site running correctly. He is well integrated in the company as he must plan and interact with different departments within the company to reflect business goals on the web. Jason recieved his Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems from California State University, Los Angeles and has worked at various companies and continues to work with an enthusiastic look towards new web technologies.

Melissa DeMund Follow @melishka74
Web Developer
Melissa has been with KCET since August 2010. She has worked in web design and web development for 12 years.

Departures

Juan Devis Follow @JDevis
Executive Producer
Juan Devis is a Public Media artist and producer, whose work crosses across platforms - video, film, interactive media and gaming. His work, regardless of the medium is often produced collaboratively allowing for a greater exchange of ideas in the production of media and art. Devis has charted the stations' new Arts and Culture initiative, Artbound, consisting of a television series, an online networked cultural hub and the creation programmatic partnerships with cultural institutions in Los Angeles. In addition, Devis has been spear headed a slate of new series such as the Emmy nominated Live @ the Ford and the Presidential Japan Prize winner Departures.

Justin Cram
Justin Cram is a trained graphic designer and web producer having worked for numerous educational institutes and NGOs including Doctors Without Borders, PBS, Merlin UK, Pasadena City College, University of California San Diego, University of California San Francisco, and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. In 2008, Justin Cram joined the online documentary series Departures as a producer of the Los Angeles River, Venice, Chinatown, Richland Farms, and Highland Park installments. He graduated from Art Center College of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design focusing on motion graphics and book design. He loves chilaquiles and coffee with his wife and son.

Kelly Simpson Follow @kellimpson
Associate Producer
I am an Associate Producer for KCET Departures and as a Baltimore native, I enjoy delving into the historical idiosyncrasies of my adopted West Coast home each day. To my surprise, it is possible to survive and thrive in L.A. without a car. On two wheels or less I journey the crowded L.A. streets people watching, soaking up the sun, or reading a good book while laughing at those in traffic. Catch me if you can on my non-fixed gear bike, for a laugh, baking tips or some of the endless information I'm collecting about the cultural history of L.A.

Yosuke Kitazawa Follow @YosukeKitazawa
Site Editor
Yosuke's background includes a degree in Film Studies, surviving the entertainment industry as a music supervisor, serving as copy editor of an arts & culture magazine, archiving 100-year old photos at a museum non-profit, among other adventures. Somehow they all come together as he brings his multimedia experience to KCET as Site Editor of Departures.

Artbound

Juan Devis Follow @JDevis
Executive Producer
Juan Devis is a Public Media artist and producer, whose work crosses across platforms - video, film, interactive media and gaming. His work, regardless of the medium is often produced collaboratively allowing for a greater exchange of ideas in the production of media and art. Devis has charted the stations' new Arts and Culture initiative, Artbound, consisting of a television series, an online networked cultural hub and the creation programmatic partnerships with cultural institutions in Los Angeles. In addition, Devis has been spear headed a slate of new series such as the Emmy nominated Live @ the Ford and the Presidential Japan Prize winner Departures.

Drew Tewksbury Follow @drewtewksbury
Managing Editor and Producer
Drew Tewksbury is Managing Editor and Producer of Artbound. He has come from a diverse media background, having worked as a producer for NPR show News and Notes, a regular music columnist for L.A. Weekly's West Coast Sound, and Senior Writer/ Contributing Editor for Flaunt Magazine. Drew is a graduate from USC's Annenberg School for Journalism Graduate program and in his free time, he runs Echo Park Jazz, a non-profit performance series housed at Lot 1 Café in Los Angeles.

Socal Connected

Brian Frank Follow @frankreporting
New Media Editor
Brian Frank is new media editor for SoCal Connected, KCET's half-hour weekly television news magazine. He also writes for the Ballot Brief blog. Generally a restless soul, he switched to journalism after a short career as an educator. In that role, he provided intensive intervention for at-risk and special needs students in literacy and language comprehension, a job that took him inside schools from Baltimore to Dillingham, Alaska. He also spent a year as an assistant English teacher in Japan. Brian received his master's degree in online journalism from USC's Annenberg School of Journalism and Communication in 2009.

Miguel Contreras
Associate Web Producer
Miguel Contreras has been at KCET since 2009, where prior to working for SoCal Connected, he served as Outreach Coordinator for the Education Department. He worked running an afterschool program for the City of Long Beach and as an instructional aide for special education students in North Long Beach before graduating from UC Berkeley with degree in Political Economy. He has an Emmy for his AP work on SoCal Connected, which he uses to hang heavy gold and/or platinum chains. He is related to Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite, and he, too, can make all of your wildest dreams come true.

Your Turn To Care
Rubi Fregoso Follow @boofregoso
Associate Producer
Rubi has been with KCET since 2007 working in a variety of capacities, most recently as Associate Producer for the Your Turn To Care website.  Her background is in education, media literacy and production.  She has lived most of her life in L.A. outside of a few extended stays in the lovely cities of La Puente and Long Beach.