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Carla Eckels, a graduate of Wichita State University, is a News Producer at KMUW. As part of KMUW's Kansas Association of Broadcasters award-winning news department, Eckels produces daily newscasts and files stories statewide and with NPR. Prior to her work at KMUW (and KSJM, where she is Gospel Program Director), Eckels was the host of Morning Edition at WYSO Public Radio in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She also hosted a Gospel music program on WCSU in Wilberforce, Ohio, and was a co-host of the nationally syndicated Gospel Top 20 Countdown. Before moving to Ohio, Eckels was Program Director for KIBN (Inspirational Black Network) in Wichita. She is also an Advisory Board member of Wichita State University's Center for Women's Studies, as well as a committee member of the Gospel Music Workshop of America's Gospel Announcer's Guild. Eckles also hosts and produces a local gospel video program on KTQW-TV Channel 53. Eckels has been married for over twenty years to Wichita State Football Hall of Famer, Rev. Reuben Eckels. She and her husband are the founders of New Day Christian Church. They have two children: six-year-old Samuel Isaiah Eckels and three-year-old Lauren Elizabeth Eckels.

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