Frieda Werden
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Frieda Lindfield Werden (born 1947) is 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 years.
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[edit] 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 children. Upon divorce in 1972, she formally changed her name to Frieda Lindfield Werden. She lived in several other US cities before immigrating to Canada in 2002.
[edit] Work in radio
In 2005, Werden was elected president of the International Association of Women in Radio and Television. She has also served on the international Board of Directors of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (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 Vancouver, BC campus-community station.[3]
A profile of Werden appears in the book Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975, by Barbara Love (2006, University of Illinois Press).
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[edit] External links
- International Association of Women in Radio and Television
- WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service
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