PRADO Award Honorees

The Development Professional of the Year award recognizes a station-based individual who has demonstrated excellence at their public radio station.

Development Professional of the Year Presented by PRADO

2023 - Andrea Hansen, Iowa Public Radio

2022 - Ellen Oost, Louisville Public Media

2021 - Regina Yeager, North Carolina Public Radio

2020 - Ashley Peterson, WERS and Sandi Billings, NWPB

2019 - Shelley Kerley, St. Louis Public Radio

2018 - Ira Salmela, KUMD

2017 - Mary Dunaway, KNKX

2016 - Bert Wesley Huffman, Georgia Public Broadcasting

2015 - June Peoples, Northwest Country Public Radio

2014 - Renee Dillard, WSIU

2013 - Sylvia Carson, KUT and KUTX

2012 - Rebecca Dopart, Wisconsin Public Radio

2011 - Gray Smith, Louisville Public Media

2010 - Valerie Arganbright, Minnesota Public Radio

2009 - Anthony Hayes, WAMU

2008 - Joan Kobayashi, KMFA

2007 - Hy Kloc, Boise State Radio

2006 - Robin Turneau, Vermont Public Radio

2005 - Walt Gillette, WAMU


PRADO Pioneer Awards

2004 - Ford Ballard, KRWG

2003 - Bob Stein, MajorGiving.com

2002 - Sheila Rue, SR Sound Programming

2001 - Donna Apidone, Capital Public Radio

2000 - Cathy Ives, New Hampshire Public Radio

1999 - Paul Damberg, KUMD

1998 - Gordon Bayliss, WGUC

1997 - Roger Gomoll, Minnesota Public Radio (KLSE)