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About Prometheus
Our Staff
While Prometheus members started their voyages on the oceans of aether as pirates to protest media concentration, demanding access to the airwaves, the Prometheus Radio Project does not operate any pirate radio stations, nor assist in setting up pirate radio stations. Here's the skinny on who we are.
Pete Tri Dish
Pete triDish was a member of the founding collective of Radio Mutiny, 91.3 FM in Philadelphia In 1996, He was an organizer for the station's demonstrations at Benjamin Franklin's Printing Press and the Liberty Bell; on both occasions the station broadcast in open defiance of the FCCs' unfair rules that prohibit low power community broadcasting. He was the organizer and speaker for the Radio Mutiny tour of 25 cities from January to March of 1998, and undertook another 20-city tour in February 1999 with the Prometheus Radio Project. He also worked on the first two microradio conferences on the East Coast --and organized radio barnraisings in 9 communities around the United States. He actively participated in the rulemaking that led up to the adoption of LPFM. He sat on the committee that sponsored the crucial Broadcast Signal Labs study, which proved to the FCC that LPFM would not cause interference. Tridish has helped to build a number of low power radio stations, and provided advice to hundreds. He has done radio trainings in Guatemala, Colombia, Nepal, Tanzania, and other countries. He has spoken at colleges, coffee shops, living rooms, and even the CATO Institute. He has been interviewed for several segments on NPR, a number of college, public and pirate radio stations, CNN, for Maximum Rock and Roll, Radio Ink, Radio and Records, Philadelphia City Paper, Baltimore City Paper, Albany Times Union, Philadelphia Inquirer, Freedom Forum, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, the Nation, Talkers Magazine, Washington Post, Broadcasting and Cable, Radio World, Hollywood Reporter, Z Magazine, Paper Tiger TV and other news outlets. He holds a BA in Appropriate Technology from Antioch College.
Hannah Sassaman
Hannah Sassaman is a rabble rouser at the Prometheus Radio Project. She was a key organizer of major FCC localism hearings in San Antonio and Rapid City. She recently helped coordinate the successful building of an FCC-licensed emergency radio station used by families displaced by Hurricane Katrina, in Houston. Hannah regularly facilitates workshops, radio plays, and movement building discussions at Prometheus' Radio Barnraisings. Hannah has been featured in segments on NPR's 'On the Media', on 'Democracy Now', on CNN, C-Span, and a variety of other TV, radio, and print projects. She will spend much of this year on the road, leading workshops on community wireless projects. Fresh to Prometheus from the Philadelphia IMC and the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, Hannah is banned from all official National Association of Broadcasters events.
Anthony Mazza
Anthony Mazza received his BAS in Sociology from Temple University in 2000. He began with Prometheus as a volunteer in the Fall of 2002, joining the staff in 2003 as Administration Director. Since then, his primary responsibility has been to ensure a sustainable future for the organization. This includes working with our board of directors to establish both short term and long term development and fundraising goals, as well as organizing day-to-day administrative tasks, among other support. In addition, he is a leading organizer in the Philadelphia Independent Media Center and Radio Volta, a community-based internet radio station in Philadelphia.
Some Alumni
Sara Zia
-- artist, activist, and media diva--has been involved in community organizing, independent media production and distribution for nearly a decade. She was a speaker on the 1998 (?) Prometheus Tour and helped develop materials on how to file comments with the FCC. She also co-founded Free Radio Gainesville, a low-power community radio station in North Central Florida, and was centrally involved in building the Civic Media Center, a resource center housing thousands of independent and self-produced books and videos. She has worked on production projects with Paper Tiger TV, Philadelphia Independent Media Center, the Self-Education Foundation and Scribe Video Center. Currently she works as an assistant to the director of Bread and Roses Community Fund. In her spare time she pursues her degree in Film and Media Arts and American Culture at Temple University and writes long essays on the absorbtion of challenges to hegemony into mass pop culture and other fancy college phrases.
Joan D'ark
Joan D'ark is a founding member of the Constructive Interference Collective in Memphis, Tennessee, the owner/operators of Free Radio Memphis and Black Cat Radio. She was a speaker on the 1999 Prometheus Tour and was the main organizer of the Constructive Interference Microbroadcasting Conference in April 1999. She is the veteran of two FCC raids, including a stint of jailtime for broadcasting. Joan is entering Temple law school this fall. She intends to study media law and will re-enter the fray for media and democracy in a few years with her degree in hand. She will continue to help Prometheus when she can in her spare time
Amanda Huron
Amanda Huron co-founded the Mt. Pleasant Broadcasting Club, a neighborhood group in Washington, D.C. that is organizing to apply for a low power license under the FCCs new low power licensing system. She taught radio production in English and Spanish to teenagers at the Cesar Chavez School for Public Policy, the Next Step public charter school, the Asian-American LEAD youth power project, and the Marthas Table community center teen program, all located in Washington, D.C. She was a principal organizer of the Showdown at the FCC! Microradio Conference and demonstration at the FCC and National Association of Broadcasters in October 1998. In addition, Huron served as the national coordinator of the Microradio Empowerment Coalition, which worked with the Prometheus Radio Project to ensure that the FCC created the new low power service in the interest of grassroots communities. She recently sought sanctuary in the graduate program at the University of North Carolina and still periodically consults for Prometheus.
Bruce Hall
Bruce Hall serves as the webmaster and is otherwise learning the ropes. Mt Pleasant Broadcasting Club gadfly as well. Spent his twenties in an unsuccessful but extremely satisfying attempt to rid the world of nuclear weapons for various DC-based non-profits. Now spending his thirties as budding film maker and student of life in the Big Apple.
Marissa Johnson
In 1997-98 Marissa Johnson worked with the defunct pirate station KAW in Lawrence, Kansas during her first year of college at the University of Kansas. She first became acquainted with Prometheus Radio Project a year later, when she attended a workshop that Pete Tridish and Amanda Huron presented at the conference on Civil Disobedience in DC. After spending time in Detroit, MI, DC, Chiapas, Mexico and some more time where she grew up in Wichita, Marissa moved to Philadelphia to settle down. At Prometheus, Marissa started with applicant outreach and then added funding/grant work to her plate. Now she manages the Prometheus books and assists with a little bit of everything else. She currently attends Temple University, where she is an English major with a Latin American studies minor.
