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Michigan State University Student Radio

Impact 89FM | WDBM-FM

Michigan State University Student Radio

Impact 89FM | WDBM-FM

Michigan State University Student Radio

Impact 89FM | WDBM-FM

2018-2019 Staff

Joe Dandron

Joe Dandron

Joe is a junior journalism student from Montague, Michigan. Joe serves as the Station Manager for Impact 89FM after spending his sophomore and junior year as Sports Director. Joe covers primarily MSU football, cross country and...

Maddi Farrell

Maddi Farrell

Maddi is currently studying Communication here at MSU. You can often find her around the station doing her duties as Marketing Director, host of the specialty show "Movie Night" and hosting podcasts such as "Movie Chat" and "The...

Eric Bach

Eric Bach

Eric Bach is a senior majoring in journalism with a minor in sports journalism from Coldwater, Michigan. He began at Impact as a volunteer in the spring of 2019, and was hired as the sports broadcast director in the fall of 2019....

Trent Balley

Trent Balley

Trent is a senior journalism student who works as Sports Editor and Men's Basketball Beat Reporter for WDBM Sports. He also co-hosts the Motown Rundown and Impact Izzone podcasts, as well as the Green + White Report live radio...

Justin LaBelle, professional

Justin LaBelle

Justin LaBelle is a junior at Michigan State University majoring in chemical engineering from New Baltimore, MI. Justin has worked among researchers and scientists manufacturing composite materials for a wider manufacturing world...

Daniel Puentes

Daniel Puentes

Daniel is a graduate student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, where he does research at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. His research involves measuring the mass of radioactive nuclei, and how it can...

chelsie boodoo

Chelsie Boodoo

Chelsie is a Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. student at Michigan State University. She studies what happens to the extracellular matrix of cells after they have been stressed. She co-hosts "The Sci-Files" with Daniel Puentes. Together...

Sam Britten

Sam Britten

Sam Britten is a sophomore journalism student. Sam has covered the women's basketball team since late 2018 and has covered events like the NCAAW tournament and multiple MSU football games. Sam currently is volunteering as our...

Maggie Morgan

Maggie Morgan

Maggie Morgan is the Senior Staff Editor for Impact 89fm. She is a Senior studying Professional Writing and Creative Writing with hopes of working in the music industry when she graduates. When she’s not working, she can be...

Kayla Effner

In addition to studying journalism at MSU, Kayla volunteers for Impact as a part of Street Team and Content Team. Growing up in the Lansing area, Kayla has listened to the station for years and decided to become a part of it ...

Kyle Turk

Kyle Turk

Kyle is a recent graduate who last served as WDBM's Sports Editor, a position he had held since December 2017. A Lake Orion, Michigan native, he covered MSU football for the past two years as well as fill-in duty for men's basketball...

Casey Halas

Casey is an undergraduate student at MSU, studying English with a minor in women’s studies. In addition to her classes and working at the Writing Center on campus, Casey enjoys writing articles for Impact about new music and ...

George McNeill

George McNeill

George McNeill (he/him) worked at Impact 89FM from 2018 to 2022, having served as the Station Manager, Operations Manager, and Assistant Program Director (now known as Programming Assistant). He contributed to the station's st...

Neelan Bosnic

Ever since he received an iPod Nano for Christmas in 2009, Neelan has had a voracious appetite for music. From Crazy Frog to Can, his taste is eclectic and sometimes questionable. As a writer for Impact he wants to broaden read...

Hope O’Dell

Being a musician herself, Hope has always been obsessed with music. She’s played guitar since she was 12 and sings crappy love songs in her dorm every night. Hope grew up on '80s hairband rock, but her tastes have shifted to ...

Claudia Kramer

As a Materials Science Engineering major, Claudia joined Impact as a way to keep in touch with her love of music during her time at MSU. She has a wildly variant tastes in music and enjoys writing about all sorts of songs. She l...

Sophie Sagan

Sophie Sagan

Sophie is a senior at Michigan State majoring in social relations and policy and minoring in documentary production. She has been at The Impact in one way or another since 2016. Her current position is News Director and host of...

Hikaru Kudo

Hikaru Kudo

Hikaru Kudo is a sophomore journalism student from Novi, Michigan. Hikaru is the Sports Broadcast Director at Impact 89FM and oversees all aspects of play-by-play, live or recorded, for any athletic event Impact sends staff to....

Stephanie Stapert

Stephanie Stapert

Stephanie is a senior majoring in Creative Advertising and Public Relations at Michigan State. At WDBM she is the website manager and the host of "The Final Rose". You can find her singing along to any song, running around doi...

Ean Montague

Ean Montague hosts The Flashback on Fridays from 8-10 p.m. EST. He previously worked as Managing Editor  while completing his B.A. in professional writing at MSU, and he is currently pursing an M.A. in strategic communication....

Ryan Cole

Ryan Cole

Ryan Cole was the Sports Director at Impact 89FM. He was promoted from Assistant Sports Director in December 2016. He graduated with a degree in journalism from Livonia, Michigan. He covered MSU club football in Fall 2015 and...

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