Board of Directors, Staff and Committees

President – V. Marc Fort (2024-2026)

V. Marc Fort hosts & produces the KOOP Radio show Ear Candy 2.0. Marc has more than 30 years of music experience performing with bands (Schatzi, F*ckemos, Moving Panoramas, & many more) that have toured across North America – and around the world. While playing in those bands, Marc has worked as a recording artist for labels including Doghouse, Scotti Brothers, Hollywood and Mammoth Records. Additionally, Marc has worked various media jobs, including as a staff photojournalist and entertainment writer at the Austin American-Statesman and as the Marketing & Communications Specialist at the Texas Music Office. Marc has been a featured speaker at the North American Music Cities Summit, CMJ, SXSW, and at various music conferences around the world. In his free time, Marc enjoys DJing vinyl – in both the USA and Japan – at clubs, bars, and hotels under the name DJ Jam Up & Jelly Tight.

Elizabeth Hansen, Vice President (2025-2027)

Elizabeth Hansen is the Managing Director of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, where she helps preserve and provide access to home movies, local and community television, and other audiovisual histories that reflect the diverse experiences of Texans. Her career has long centered on community media, previously serving as music director for college station WMTS, reporter for NPR affiliate WMOT, and engagement producer for Kansas City Public Television. From 2007–2014, Hansen was an adult advisor for KOOP’s Youth Spin program. She holds a master’s degree in Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, where her work focused on community, college, and youth-created media. Her continued commitment to locally made and publicly accessible media guides her work and perspective as a KOOP board member.

Robert Lilly, Secretary (2025-2027)

Robert Lilly is a Project Director and lead organizer for Da’Cipher 360, where he oversees logistics, communications, and community engagement for justice-centered events. He is employed with Travis County as a Mental Health Peer Support Specialist, drawing on his lived experience to provide compassionate support and advocacy. In addition, Robert serves as a co-host of the Nonviolent Austin Radio Hour, amplifying dialogue on peace, justice, and community healing. Ever since reading Jessica Gordon Nembhard’s Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Thought and Practice, he has been convinced that cooperatives are a powerful tool to resist oppression. Guided by this conviction, Robert has a strong desire to serve his community and to rise into greater excellence as he grows in leadership. His long-term vision is to expand Da’Cipher 360 into a sustainable force for justice, dialogue, and collective healing.

Sean Fannin, Treasurer (2024-2026)

Sean Fannin (aka dj sean) hosts and produces the KOOP music program, Search & Destroy alongside Lauryn Darci and Bryan Patrick. He is a native Austinite who grew up listening to KOOP and began volunteering by tabling events and producing station business (Underwriting Announcements). Sean has a lifelong passion for outdoor activities like rock climbing and mountain biking; he spreads the KOOP message far and wide in these communities and beyond with the goal of cultivating broad-based listenership. Sean studied renewable resource management at Texas A&M and is an IT professional for a public cloud provider. He actively solicits support from industry colleagues as part of KOOP’s capital investment initiative. When Sean isn’t working or indulging in his many hobbies, he can be found helping around on his partner’s vegetable farm in Elgin, TX. As a board member, he’s excited to support his peers, and bring new ideas to the station.

Jim Hickcox (2025-2027)

Jim Hickcox is a filmmaker working primarily as a cinematographer, and an adjunct professor at Austin Community College. He also co-hosts a weekly online weird news show, and makes music and art under fake names that you’ll never find. His work has carried him all over the country and through all forms of media in both creative and technical roles. Above all, Jim is stridently passionate about community, media, community media in general, and KOOP specifically.

Steven Hughes (2025-2027)

Bio coming soon.

Ken McKenzie-Grant (2024-2026)

Ken McKenzie-Grant (Ken Z) brings 4 decades of listening & participatory experience to non-commercial Austin radio. After serving as first Program Manager for UT’s student station — now KVRX — he conducted blessings of smoke for KOOP’s first day on-air in 1994. Ken has a wealth of passion for the community: producing and hosting a variety of Music & Talk shows or media events for Community Radio KAZI, Pacifica & Rice Radio (Houston), “Pirate Radio” One, “Adult” KGSR, “commercials” Urban B-93 & Talk Radio KFON-AM, NPR-affiliate KUT, and AISD’s annual Powwow & Heritage Fest. He was founding VP until 2017 of non-profit Design~Build~Live (focused on projects promoting Permaculture, Green & Natural Building) and has served on the KOOP-TEBC board since 2018.

Erin Walter (2024-2026)

Rev. Erin J. Walter is a native Austinite, the founding singer/bassist for indie rock band Parker Woodland and executive director of the Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry, where her work centers on anti-racism, LGBTQIA+ rights, bodily autonomy, and other issues of collective liberation. Erin loves indie and community radio, and her first internship as a teenager was at KNACK 107.7 in Austin in the ’90s. A former Austin-American Statesman reporter, she serves on the board of Texas Impact and the advisory council for SIMS Foundation, and is the former board president of Girls Rock Austin. Erin loves Zumba, karaoke, her family, travel, and Mexican food, not necessarily in that order.