Get Art and Radio Experience
Find career-building experiences at 海角社区.
- Enhance the visitor experience and learn about museum operations on the Visitor Services Team.
- Share your voice and create student experiences on the Manetti Shrem Museum Student Coalition.
- Be a deejay.
- Write profiles and coordinate the website.
- Program new ideas for sports, news, music and science.
- Become the face of KDVS as the front office volunteer.
- Create public service announcements.
- Report the news.
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Editor鈥檚 note: is presented here as it was first published in the College of Letters and Science Magazine in December 2016.
Combining a love for radio and art, Benjamin Castle 鈥14 (bachelor鈥檚 degrees in art history and psychology) now leads sales for San Francisco public radio station .
Castle鈥檚 first foray into radio came early in his time at 海角社区, where he not only hosted a show on , but also was the station鈥檚 business and underwriting director for three years.
鈥淚 loved the radio station and wanted to see it stay around 鈥 and that鈥檚 what the business side makes happen,鈥 said Castle, a native of San Diego. In addition to pursuing a double major and running the business end of KDVS, Castle founded , an organization that reached out to the local arts community to create exhibitions at the university鈥檚 Nelson Gallery [which closed in 2015 to make way for the .]
Art gallery 鈥榠ncredibly rewarding experience鈥
鈥淲orking with the Nelson Gallery was an incredibly rewarding experience and gave me another opportunity for community outreach, which was something I was already doing with KDVS,鈥 Castle said.
Castle鈥檚 job as national sales coordinator for KQED includes setting rates, coordinating and communicating with salespeople, entering orders, advising on Federal Communications Commission guidelines, and creating the KQED 鈥淗appenings鈥 newsletter.
Liberal arts education helped him excel early in career
Castle says his extracurricular work at KDVS and the Nelson Gallery taught him how to reach out to the larger community, and his liberal arts education exposed him to a wide range of ideas, helping him excel early in his career.
鈥淚n the workforce, you never know exactly what you may be doing,鈥 he said. 鈥淔ew people end up doing what they dreamed of when they were 5 years old. A liberal arts education exposes you to many ideas, but more important are extracurricular opportunities and the ability to turn them into a career.鈥
Jeffrey Day is the content strategist for humanities, arts and cultural studies. Devoted to communicating about the arts and humanities, Jeffrey earned a degree in anthropology.