Tajudin was born in Ethiopia. He works over at playback as a Master Control operator. Outside MTN he is an independent filmmaker, and also works freelance. On his spare time he loves to play his keyboard and work on his own projects.

Keith is a camera person and sound engineer for various MTN productions. Away from MTN, he is a musician, producer and runs a music publishing company called BoppDuWopp

Todd works on various MTN productions as well as over at MTN playback. When he isn't at MTN he is a freelance video producer, and when he isn't doing that he channels his production skills into independent narrative filmmaking. Todd is also completing a novel as part of his MFA degree at Hamline University.

Eboun is an administrative assistant who assists the MTN employees whenever they need a happy helping hand. During her spare time she likes to watch movies and have a good laugh. Currently she's a student at Minneapolis Community and Technical College studying for her Liberal Arts/Business Management degree.

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Hamil is a production specialist primarily focused on producing MTN's Community Events programming. He enjoys the fallibility of language and whispering haiku to shallow graves.

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Vera makes the schedule of programs that ultimately plays on each of the three channels and tries her hardest to encourage new programming! She enjoys singing, watching commercials, and teasing people. She also loves to cook as long as she doesn't have to do the dishes!

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David Paul manages MTN's automated playback system, which means that he makes sure that shows are playing on MTN's three channels, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. His favorite food is rice and he loves the Minnesota Twins.

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Fanuel Tsehaye assists members in the studio and equipment checkout areas. He also works as part of the MTN Production Services team. He was born in Eritrea and is currently a student at the University of Minnesota studying Mass Communications, Marketing and Media relations.

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Beth Peloff keeps MTN's books, teaches about half of the Beginning Field Production classes and is the Producer of MTN's series on the arts called MTN Access to Art. In her spare time she enjoys making and watching documentary films and banging around on the guitar.

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John Akre teaches field production classes for adults and youth, does video production work, keeps the web site running, and edits the Monitor. When he's not at work, he enjoys gardening, reading, bicycling, and animation. See what non-work video he is up to at www.sloppyfilms.com.

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Doug manages Equipment Checkout, teaches the Basic Studio Production class and does the graphics for the weekly live Hennepin County Commissioner's meetings. He also loves to garden, cook, bike, kayak, ski and, of course, play international music as a dj on KFAI's "Global Beat" - every Wednesday between 1 - 3 pm (90.3 & 106.7 FM as well as www.kfai.org.

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