Stephanie Elkins was named WPR’s Marketing Director in June 2009 and has been a classical host with the organization since March 2007. She currently co-hosts The Midday with Norman Gilliland on WPR’s News and Classical Music Network.

Stephanie was the co-founder and VP of operations for Broadjam Inc., a Madison-based company that serves independent musicians and the music industry. Broadjam’s clients include ASCAP, the Academy of Country Music, Warner/Chappell and Yamaha, and its website features a searchable database of about a half-million songs and almost 100,000 members from around the globe. She ran Marketing, Customer Service and other departments for the company.

Stephanie has also served as a writer and business consultant with clients in both the nonprofit and business sectors and worked as a sales and marketing executive for Mobil. She is an avid "news junkie" with a BA in Political Science and French from the University of Rhode Island, and graduate work in Applied Economics at the University of Central Florida. She also studied at the Sorbonne in France for a year.

She is passionate about listener-supported radio and was a ten-year host for Musica Antiqua, heard Sunday mornings in Madison, Wisconsin on WORT-FM 89.9-FM. She started in radio at WDIY-FM in Allentown/Bethlehem, PA.

"I love to sit around a campfire with friends and family -- guitars and percussion in hand -- singing songs from the sixties and seventies in harmony, making up blues on the spot, and singing kids' songs with enthusiasm."