Career
Kim worked in California as a filmmaker / dot-com entrepreneur. Kim founded Saram, Inc. in the state of California, and created promotional films and online contents for numerous fortune 500 corporate clients including Samsung, Canon and NBC. Kim also founded and managed SaramNet — one of the most notable and trafficked Korean web community portals outside of Korea (Alexa Internet, 2000), which catered to the English-speaking Korean population in North America. His love of travel photography was a natural extension of many years of travels and migrations around the world. Kim is often seen in Europe and East Asia nowadays, working on intercontinental projects.
Publications
Kim is an author of PhotoMazing Thailand, a travel photography guidebook based on his multiple photographic journeys to Thailand, and an academic research essay titled South Korean Cinema and Hybridity of East Asian Identity about South Korean cinema and East Asian identity.
Early life
Brett grew up in Escondido, California, located in San Diego County, where he attended Orange Glen High School.
Brett was a Street & Smith High School All-American Defensive back after his junior year and was heavily recruited as a DB by many Division I colleges.
Salisbury was an Adidas All-American High School Quarterback, considered a pro prospect in baseball batting .406 his senior at a shortstop. He played on the varsity basketball team as a sophomore in high school.
College career
Salisbury received a full scholarship, to BYU but was let go two years later for “not living the church standards", and was ex-communicated from the LDS church. After Brigham Young University, he attended Palomar Junior College and was the most highly recruited and decorated quarterback in the nation. Salisbury chose the University of Oregon, over University of Southern California, and Arizona State University. Salisbury played in five games as the starting quarterback where his performance was considered "ugly." He transferred after starting the last game of the pac 10 regular season against Oregon State University.
Salisbury finished his senior season at Division II Wayne State College, where he became the only D-II player in college football history to receive a vote for the Heisman Trophy.
The Wildcats offense, ranked first in NCAA Division II in total offense (581.5 yards per game), second in passing offense (379.9 ypg) and scoring offense (44.8 ppg). Salisbury's passer rating of 166.3 at Wayne State College is the second highest in division II.
After college Salisbury played in the EFAF European League, playing three seasons with the Helsinki Giants from 1994-1996 in Helsinki, Finland. The EFAF is the same league that former UCLA quarterback Kevin Craft currently plays in and who Salisbury coached in pop warner football in Valley Center California.
Professional career
Salisbury was given the title, male super model in April 2002 by model-max.com senior editor Jed Medina. Salisbury is considered to be in the pack of the male model generation of Marcus Schenkenberg, Mark Vanderloo, and Alex Lundqvist.
On December 4th, 2007, Salisbury was voted the 72nd greatest high school football player ever.
Brett is the brother of Sean Salisbury who is the former American ESPN football analyst, former NFL and CFL quarterback, and actor.
History
Born in Berwyn, Illinois, she spent most of her life in the Chicago area. She attended Illinois Center for Broadcasting, Lombard, where she interned for Kevin Matthews and for a brief time Danny Bonaduce at 97.9 The Loop.
After graduating from the Illinois Center for Broadcasting in 1994, she began working for 92.7 WCBR “The Bear” broadcasting from Arlington Heights.
Career
When the station was taken over by Big City Radio in 1998, she was retained to work at the new station by then program director Judy McNutt.
In 1999 Big City Radio brought Robert Murphy to Chicago sister station 103.5 FM, where JoAnn landed the Co-Host spot. The station was formatted as “Chicago’s Heart and Soul” and played a format for Motown hits and blue eyed soul. It later became “The Eighties Channel” playing eighties hits and rotation of early MTV favorites.
In September 2001 she moved to WLIT 93.9 FM as Co-Host of the Morning Drive shift with Paul Peterson until 2002, when she moved to the newly formatted Clear Channel WKCS 103.5 KISS-FM.
She was originally added to bring localization to “Valentine in the Morning”, a morning show streamed in from Los Angles and broadcast in Chicago.
In 2003 KISS-FM decided to end the simulcasted Sean Valentine morning show. San Antonio host Kevin “Drex” Buchar became the morning drive host. JoAnn became the News and Traffic personality for the show. She also served as the News and Current Affairs Director for the station. Her work in Public Affairs for the station earned her the title of Honorary Board Member of the Sudden Death Infant Syndrome Services of Illinois She left the station in late 2008.
She has also made appearances on Tony Losanno’s “The Nude Hippo Show”.
JoAnn is currently the Host of the “Big Morning Wake Up” at WBIG 1280 AM.