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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

2019-2020 Staff

Abbi Wynsma

Abbi Wynsma

Abbi Wynsma, the station's live music director, is currently a senior studying Media and Information. Her favorite artists range from Hayley Williams and Arctic Monkeys to Beyonce and Dolly Parton. Currently she's been jamming...

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...

Mason Vore

Mason Vore

Mason Vore is a freshman from Austin, Texas, majoring in Social Relations & Policy and Economics. At Impact 89FM, he volunteers for both Music Review and Content Team. Some of his favorite musicians include Car Seat Headrest, Ange...

Luca Melloni

Luca Melloni

Luca is a senior journalism student and the sports editorial assistant at Impact 89FM. He is the men's and women's soccer beat reporter where he spent the last three seasons covering the two programs, as well as the men's basketball...

Charlotte Steinberg

Charlotte Steinberg

Charlotte is a sophomore journalism student at Michigan State who originally hails from New York City. She covers women's basketball for Impact, but has also helped cover men's basketball. She also was a frequent contributor...

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...

Katelyn Connelly

Katelyn is a first-year student at Michigan State University studying environmental engineering and is expected to graduate in 2023. Hailing from Birch Run, Michigan, she has always had an interest in journalism and an adoration ...

Kyle Davidson

Kyle Davidson

Kyle Davidson is many things. A journalism and political science student. A connoisseur of Michigan’s finest local musical offerings. A lover of shoegaze and all things ending in “Lizard Wizard.” Most prominently, he is Impact�...

Nicholas Selzer

Nicholas is a freshman at Michigan State University whose major is undeclared. He expects to graduate in 2023. Before coming to MSU, he lived in Orlando, Florida, for three years. Before that, he lived in Chesterfield Township,...

Norene Bassin

Norene Bassin

Norene edits the music & entertainment section as of May 2022. They grew up in Royal Oak, Michigan, but now reside in Lansing. They are majoring in journalism and expect to graduate in 2023. Some of their favorite genres include...

Taylor Haelterman

Taylor Haelterman

Taylor is a senior journalism major with a concentration in writing and editing and a minor in media photography. She is also currently pursuing her masters in environmental and science journalism. Taylor hosts the weekly audio n...

Nathan Stearns

Nathan Stearns

Nathan is a senior journalism major who serves as the Sports Broadcast Director for Impact 89FM. He previously served as the News Director and Sports Editorial Assistant for Impact. He also primarily covers football, along with...

Ian Gilmour

Ian Gilmour

Ian is a senior journalism major who covers men's soccer for Impact 89FM. He has also previously covered men's basketball, women's basketball, and football while at Michigan State.

Aidan Champion

Aidan Champion

Aidan is a senior journalism major who serves as a football beat reporter for Impact 89FM. He has covered wrestling, women's basketball, men's basketball, football and baseball while at Michigan State.

Adam Bakr

Adam Bakr

Adam is a senior journalism major who covers men's soccer for Impact 89FM. He also covers professional soccer and contributes to Impact's professional sports coverage.

Austin Winslow

Austin Winslow

Austin is a junior journalism major who covers women's basketball for Impact 89FM. He has also previously covered men's basketball and appeared on Breslin Breakdown, Impact's women's basketball podcast.

Kyle Hatty

Kyle Hatty

Kyle is a senior journalism major who covers hockey for Impact 89FM. As Impact's hockey beat reporter, Kyle serves as the co-host of the Behind the Mask podcast. He has also previously covered football, women's basketball, and...

Ryan Collins

Ryan Collins

Ryan is a junior journalism major who covers football and hockey for Impact 89FM. He also appears on Spartan Redzone, the Green & White Report, and hosts Behind the Mask, Impact's podcast covering Michigan State Hockey.

Sam Britten

Sam Britten

Sam is a senior journalism major who covers women's basketball for Impact 89FM. He has also previously covered men's basketball and football while appearing on Breslin Breakdown, Impact's women's basketball podcast.

John Supan

John Supan

John is a senior journalism major who covers hockey for Impact 89FM and appears on Behind the Mask, Impact's podcast covering Michigan State Hockey.

Luke Saccone

Luke Saccone

Luke is a senior journalism major who covers women's basketball and football for Impact 89FM. He has also previously covered baseball and men's basketball at Michigan State.

Alex McRae

Alex McRae

Alex is a senior communications major who covers baseball and football for Impact 89FM. He also contributes to professional sports coverage and occupies the role of Impact's NFL Draft expert.

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...

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...

Josiah Leach

Josiah Leach

Josiah was the Managing Editor of the Content (Entertainment) Team, helping to produce and delegate writing projects for the Impact 89FM website. They are from Commerce, Michigan and now live in East Lansing. In addition to th...

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...

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