Frieda Werden

The inaugural WINGS newscast was released in May 1986 with the financial assistance of NPR’s Satellite Program Development Fund.

[4] Initially based out of their San Francisco home, Werden moved back to Austin, Texas after Davenport’s passing from Leukemia in 1992.

[7] From 1993-2002, she worked for Genevieve Vaughan’s Foundation for a Compassionate Society in Austin, Texas, and helped to establish and staff Women's Access to Electronic Resources (WATER).

[1] In 1998, in Milan, Werden became North America Representative to the Women's International Network of AMARC (the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters).

[12] Werden held the position of Spoken Word Coordinator at CJSF-FM, Simon Fraser University’s campus-community radio station in Burnaby, BC, from 2002 to May 2014.

Frieda Werden receives the 2019 Art FM Radio Pioneer Award