Frieda Werden

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Frieda Lindfield Werden (born 1947) is an American and Canadian radio personality. She is the co-founder and producer of the weekly radio series WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service, which debuted in 1986 and has been in weekly syndication for more than twenty-seven years.

Early life

Werden was born Linda Catherine Samfield in Austin, Texas, and was married from 1968 to 1972 to Noble Horace Dunson, Jr. She has no children. Upon divorce in 1972, she formally changed her name to Frieda Lindfield Werden. She lived in several other US cities before emigrating to Canada in 2002.

Work in radio

Werden began producing radio with the Longhorn Radio Network in 1973. Her early radio series included Women Today, about the feminist movement in Texas, and What's Normal? a series about homosexual lifestyles. In 1992, she began working for National Public Radio as an associate producer and then series producer of docudramas. In 1995, she became operations manager of Western Public Radio in San Francisco, and there she co-founded WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service (1986- ). From 1992-1998, she worked with the Foundation for a Compassionate Society in Austin, Texas, and helped to establish and staff Women's Access to Electronic Resources (WATER).

In 1997, in Milan, Werden became North America Representative to the Women's International Network of AMARC (the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters). As such, she represented AMARC on the Task Force for Gender Issues of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Geneva.

In 2005, Werden was elected president of the International Association of Women in Radio and Television. From 2002-2007, she served as Vice President for North America on the international Board of Directors of (AMARC).^[1]

In June 2006, she received the inaugural "Lifetime Achievement Award" at the 25th Annual National Community Radio Conference, a project of the Canadian National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA).^[2]

Presently, she coordinates Spoken Word programming at CJSF-FM, a Burnaby, BC campus-community radio station.^[1]

A profile of Werden appears in the book Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975, by Barbara Love (2006, University of Illinois Press).

References

External links

International Association of Women in Radio and Television
WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service
"Have WINGS, Will Fly: Frieda Werden's Women's News Projects Take Off," by Amy Smith, Austin Chronicle, Sept. 20, 1996

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