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Vladimir Radinović 
(Serbia)

President

Vladimir has spent half of his life in community radio. As a practitioner, producer, and advocate, he has been closely following the development of the scene in the Western Balkans and has actively worked across the region in order to support it. His work in the field led him to cross paths multiple times with colleagues from CMFE, which eventually led to the idea of joining the organization in 2019.

He has worked across radio, podcasting, and media advocacy, with a focus on supporting grassroots initiatives and promoting media pluralism in Southeast Europe. Currently based in Serbia, Vladimir brings both hands-on production experience and strategic oversight to his role as President of the CMFE Board. He regularly collaborates with journalists, civil society organizations, and media networks across Europe to strengthen the role of community media in democratic societies.

Board of Directors
(2024-2025)

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Harriette Wendel 
(Luxembourg)

President & Treasurer

Harriette Wendel brings over two decades of high-level financial and administrative expertise to the CMFE board. A multilingual professional with a background in both the private and public sectors—including NATO, maritime shipping, and finance—she is a cornerstone of operational stability within CMFE.

Although Harriette is not a content creator or traditional community media practitioner, her rigorous approach to financial oversight and regulatory compliance is crucial to the sustainability and credibility of our work. Formerly Business Manager at Radio ARA in Luxembourg, she now serves as an individual member, continuing her contribution to community media through her exceptional management of financial and administrative processes.

Harriette’s skills in budget planning, international finance, HR, and funding compliance keep both CMFE and partner organizations on solid ground. Her unique profile ensures that daily operations remain transparent, accountable, and aligned with broader strategic goals.

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Daniel Kemeny
(Hungary)

Secretary of the Board

Daniel Kemeny is a community radio advocate and media freedom activist from Hungary. He supports the development and operation of multiple community radio stations, launching a program in 2020 to help establish and sustain them. Daniel collaborates with NGOs to enhance their media representation and coordinates EU-funded initiatives in partnership with Civil Radio. As a volunteer with Radio X, he organizes university sessions on media freedom and the role of community radio. He is also a regular speaker and producer for Radio X training courses, fostering community media education and engagement.

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Valentina Rajaković
(Slovenia)

Member

Valentina Rajakovic works for one of the oldest independent non-profit community radios in Europe, Radio Študent. Radio Študent provides a media platform to various social groups, minorities, and marginalized communities. Starting as a journalist, continuing as a project manager and now as a director, she has gained important experience and skills in various fields of the third media sector. She has been gaining experience in project work since she was 15 when she joined a local voluntary cultural association as a board member. There she contributed to the projects as a festival and youth center program manager. Both her work in the local community and her work at Radio Študent has taught her the importance of fighting for the promotion of marginalized content.

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Lale Rodgarkia-Dara
(Austria)

Member

Lale Rodgarkia-Dara is a writer, sonic artist, and strategic managing director of Radio Helsinki 92.6 in Graz, Austria. She explores the interplay of literature, media art, and open-source technology, often creating works in transitory spaces and radio formats. Lale is a co-founder of the feminist art/hacker space Mz. Baltazar's Laboratory and Vienna’s Radia Collective, as well as a founding member of the multidisciplinary art space Palais Rössl. She has produced international media conferences and co-organized initiatives addressing radicalization and media freedom. Her artistic contributions have been recognized with several prestigious grants, and she continues to lecture and teach at universities and informal education systems across Austria.

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Dr. Gloria Khamkar
(UK)

Member

Dr. Gloria Khamkar is a Principal Academic in Journalism at Bournemouth University, UK, and a community radio broadcaster at Unity 101 FM in Southampton. Her research focuses on community media, migrant media, and citizen journalism, and she is the author of The Evolution of British Asian Radio in England (2023). Gloria co-hosts the Culture Corner podcast and has led projects like "Once Upon a Time in Ukraine," a mobile storytelling initiative with Ukrainian women migrants. She is an Advisory Board Member of the MeCCSA Radio Studies Network and has served on the Council Board of the UK’s Community Media Association. Her advocacy promotes diversity, equity, and the ethos of community radio, with a focus on empowering ethnic and migrant communities.

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Chiara Muzzi

(Italy)

Member

Chiara Muzzi is a PhD researcher at Loughborough University London, focusing on environmental communication through community radio along the Danube. With over two decades of experience, she has worked as a radio producer, journalist, and project manager, supporting human rights defenders, activists, and community media initiatives worldwide. Chiara produced The Green Show on Source FM and has been a key contributor to CMFE’s "Get The Trolls Out" project, addressing anti-religious hate speech. Her expertise spans advocacy, capacity building, and fostering collaborative audio productions with community radios. Fluent in four languages, Chiara is committed to amplifying underrepresented voices and supporting transformative media projects.

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Nyima Jadama 
(Gambia/Germany)

Member & Communications Officer

Nyima is an award winning feminist, social activist, and journalist from The Gambia, West Africa, now based in Berlin Germany. She is the founder and producer of the Nyima’s Bantaba talk show on Alex Berlin TV channel, a bilingual German-English TV show that aims to connect migrants, refugees, and women from diaspora communities across the globe.
In 2017-2018 she worked in the multilingual radio talk show “Our Voice” for the non-commercial station Radio Dreyeckland in Freiburg where she produced weekly radio reports about the realities of life for refugees in the Freiburg (South Germany) region and its surroundings in Baden-Württemberg. There she also operated as a media trainer for refugees with or without experience in Journalism to produce their own radio content for the Our Voice” project.
Nyima works Part-time at the r0g_agency as a #MMN-Migrant Media Network-community coordinator and an advisor on issues of women & migration. She also co-host the African Women in Trade (AWT) monthly webinar online and is active in public speaking on issues regarding women and migration.

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Fabian Ekstedt 
(Germany)

Member

Fabian Ekstedt is managing director at LORA Munich, a board member of the Federal Association of Free Radios (BFR), and a founding member of the Verband Community Media Bayern (VCMB). As an advocate for community media as well as editor and program coordinator at LORA, he works to ensure that as many different people as possible can participate in the media discourse and enrich society with their perspectives.
In addition to studying political science, Fabian worked for about 5 years as the editor in charge of the LORA magazine on Thursdays. He got involved in the BFR through cooperation with other independent radio stations in the course of jointly organized reporting on the pronouncement of the verdict in the NSU trial in Munich.
Even before he started working for the community radio LORA Munich, Fabian was familiar with the topics of self-management and empowerment. In 2010 he founded the youth association eigeninitiativ e.V. and together with it realized the construction of the “Kulturhaus zur golden Park Bank” in Miesbach, which is still the largest self-administered youth and cultural center in Upper Bavaria.
As a trained carpenter, Fabian still enjoys handiwork, is a self-declared news junky, and has been writing the column "The social thistle thing", which now has over 55 parts, since the beginning of the Corona restrictions.

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