Our Story
AirGo showcases the strong young voices who shape Chicago and beyond, sharing their stories over the air, on wax, from the stage, and across the city. Each episode of AirGo features a live longform interview with and some sort of on-air performance from an artist, writer, activist, thinker, actor, or musician whose work and spirit is reshaping the city and the nation’s contemporary culture. Explore the stories and voices that are reshaping our culture with AirGo.
AirGo airs live, and is also available in full as a podcast on iTunes and at http://airgoradio.com. In addition, the quarterly We ’Go mixtape series features the on-Airgo live performances, mixed and curated by the Airgo crew.
Daniel Kisslinger is the Co-Host and Producer of AirGo. He’s also a Production Associate for Louder Than a Bomb, the world’s largest youth poetry festival, and a contributing Teaching Artist to Young Chicago Authors’ Chicago Beat Journalism Program. In addition to his work with YCA, he is a production assistant at The Promontory, a music venue in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood; is the Booking Coordinator for The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, the first poetry anthology by and for the hip hop generation; and does oral histories for high schools and colleges across the country.
Daniel was previously the host and Executive Producer of Erasing Boundaries, a weekly interview show on KDIC 88.5FM and online folio featuring conversations with artists who strive to erase musical and cultural boundaries, including hip hop stars Kendrick Lamar, Pete Rock, Chance the Rapper, and many others. He was also Station Manager of KDIC 88.5FM, the Grinnell College radio station. A native New Yorker, he interned at WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show and under Bill Bragin at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Public Programming Department, which produces the Midsummer Night Swing and Lincoln Center Out of Doors public music festivals.
Damon Williams, an actor, rapper, poet, comedian, teacher, public speaker and activist hailing from the south side of Chicago, is the Co-Host of AirGo. He is also a regular contributor for Urban Broadcast Media’s The Damon Williams Show, hosted by his father and veteran standup comedian Damon Williams. He is a member of hip hop-poetica fusion group April Fools with his sister, the acclaimed poet and playwright Kristiana Colón. The duo has performed at venues throughout the Chicagoland area and was featured on the cover of the Redeye in the summer of 2014 for the reading of their new hip hop stage show “Lack on Lack,” held at Victory Gardens. In addition to April Fools, the siblings have paired together to form the #LetUsBreathe artistic activist collective, in response to the death of Mike Brown and protests in Ferguson, and have become prominent figures in the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Williams started acting at a young age in many commercials and movies, including an ad for the Jordan Brand starring and directed by Spike Lee, and the feature length film RollBounce. He attended Grinnell College, where he found his voice as a performer of spoken word poetry and as the creator and co-host of KDIC 88.5’s weekly hip-hop radio show The BoomBox, which was accompanied by an online talk show of the same name. He graduated in 2014 with degrees in Economics and Sociology. Williams has led community outreach and seminars aimed at youth for over ten years, encouraging financial literacy and combating growing economic inequality in urban America.
