DaMaeAn Steinhardt

Executive Director

DaMaeAn grew up in New York City and graduated from Duke University. With a passion for sports and marketing, he worked for three professional teams. He has also been involved in coaching sports to youth and young adults. He worked with Global Change Media to start KVAN Visionary Radio over a decade ago and has been involved in bringing national and international musical acts and cultural festivals to Arizona, where he has lived for 30 years. DaMaeAn plays trumpet and is a lover of all types of music, especially music that touches the soul. With a belief that music has the power to unite, bring joy, raise consciousness and transform the world, he is devoted to continuing to build a radio station that lives up to that vision.

Ala'Di Goodman

General Manager, DJ

Ala'Di was raised in Lyttelton, a music and artists cultural hub and shipping port in the South Island of New Zealand. She has dedicated her life to serving humanity through spiritual and social causes, is also a Registered Nurse and Hospice Administrator and the coordinator of a homeless program. Ala'Di is a singer/songwriter and artist, and has a deep love and appreciation for music that brings its listeners to a place of elevated consciousness.

ShaRu White

Director of Underwriting

ShaRu brings a life-time of business and arts advocacy to his role as KVAN Underwriting Director. A graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz, ShaRu spent 11 years working on Wall Street, and served on the Board of Rhythmic Concepts, sponsors of San Francisco Bay Area Annual Jazz Camp and Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, recording with Linda Ronstadt, and featured on Sunday morning with Charles Kuralt, before moving to Arizona in 1995. ShaRu has been instrumental in the marketing and promotion of KVAN Radio since its inception. A connoisseur of music in all its genres, he is an avid musician in his own right, as an accomplished flute, sax, and bag-pipe player, playing regularly in area bands, and orchestras, and as a guest studio artist.

Kazarian Giannangelo

Program Director and On-Air Personality
DJ K-Zar, the Deep Space Quasar

Kazarian Giannangelo is a multifaceted creative, ordained minister, and artistic memory maker dedicated to the Art of Living and personal transformation. As a dedicated father and family man, he embodies the ethos "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might," a motto that guides his personal and professional life. He is a "Man for All Seasons," skilled in numerous domains but unified by a singular drive to serve.

He has worked with KVAN from its inception as a DJ and behind the scenes, helping to develop the station’s unique voice.

Asai Lohmann

Station Engineer

With 20 years of experience spanning audio engineering, IT systems administration, and radio communications network deployment, Asai brings technical depth to station engineering. His background includes signal processing and acoustic treatment, studio monitor calibration, and audio hardware/software integration, paired with systems administration expertise in network infrastructure, server management, DNS configuration, and extensive AoIP training including Wheatnet proficiency and Dante Level 3 certification. On the broadcast side, his experience covers RF systems and signal transmission, FCC compliance, and technical troubleshooting across both analog and digital equipment — giving him the versatility to keep a station's technical operations running smoothly from the studio to the transmitter.