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Billie has worked at WKU Pubic Radio since early 2011. She worked in membership at the SIU-Carbondale Alumni Association for ten years before becoming a full time mom fifteen years ago. She is happy to be back in the workforce.

In 1988, a determined Bob Boilen started showing up on NPR's doorstep every day, looking for a way to contribute his skills in music and broadcasting to the network. His persistence paid off, and within a few weeks he was hired, on a temporary...

Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career, "hired to write for every small paper in Washington, D.C., just as it was about to fold," saw that jink broken in 1984, when he came to NPR.

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