Maria Gilardin, host of TUC (Time of Useful Consciousness) Radio, learned radio in the KPFA news department in 1980 and was one of the founders of the women’s department. She co-wrote the GATT Guide for the Earth Summit in Rio, was founding producer of the national weekly public-affairs show Making Contact, and is a member of the International Forum on Globalization.
Since 1993, Maria has written and produced radio on global trade and great ideas of local resistance to globalization.
She is also an artist who has organized numerous installations, and she is famous for living almost completely off the grid in a California home made of bales of straw.