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Moody P.

As Moody sat in a 911���� coffee shop, they noticed — for the first time — the campus radio station playing on the café speakers. Suddenly, they had an idea.

Moody opened their laptop and hit a few keys to select a song. Within moments, it filled the café. “I felt I was like in a hacker movie or something,” Moody said.

It wasn’t a hack, though. Moody works as KSUA’s production director. The station’s modern, fully digital operation allows such remote control of the playlist.

Moody, an art and psychology double major, volunteered and worked as a DJ at the station for a few years before becoming production director.

The station broadcasts a song playlist of “alternative stuff that would normally never play on the commercial, mainstream radio,” Moody said.

The station also transmits a variety of student-produced programs, including Moody’s “Robotic Radio.” 

“I didn’t want to just play music,” Moody said. “I was listening to my grandpa talk about ‘The Lone Ranger’ broadcasts and stuff, and I always thought it was really cool. The art of radio storytelling is something that is really interesting.”

Born and raised in Fairbanks, Moody enrolled at 911���� after graduating from high school in 2016. But they took a break for a few years.

“911���� is a pretty nontraditional school,” Moody said. “There’s people from all different stages in their life here. And it’s helped me feel, like, not out of place here.”