WUMO LP 94.5 FM, Montgomery, Alabama
Bill Foster is a native New Yorker born in Queens, New York City. He has lived in Montgomery, Alabama and Tuscaloosa Alabama for the past 19 years. He presently serves as General Manager of WUMO LP FM, a Pacifica Affiliate radio station in Montgomery, Alabama. Bill is a graduate of Stony Brook University where he received a Bachelor of Sociology degree in 1971 and a Master of Social Work degree in 1974. He received a Master of Public Administration degree from New York University in 1987. Bill has worked in the fields of African American Studies and College Counseling roles for thirty years working in positions including counseling, counseling supervision, and Africana research. Bill worked for such institutions as Fairleigh Dickinson University and Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York where he retired in 2005 after serving a total of 24 years. From 1973-2003 Bill served as research associate and board member of Afram Associates in Harlem, New York under the leadership of the late well-known activist Preston Wilcox. Other professional pursuits in New York City included clinical social work for the Court Referred Program of Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. Additional activities while in Brooklyn included 28 years of service with the House of the Lord Church under the leadership of Rev. Herbert Daughtry was the Pastor. Other significant community activities included he National Black United Front and the African People’s Christian Organization.
In 2005 Bill and his wife Dr. Pamela Payne Foster moved to Montgomery Alabama where they Aframsouth, a nonprofit organization dedicated to African American health and family services and community empowerment where Bill currently serves as Executive Director. While in Montgomery Bill and his wife Pamela also established a chapter of the African Atlantic Genealogical Society which operated and served for seven years. Community radio station WUMO LP 94.5 FM was established in 2014 in Montgomery, Alabama. Such programs as A Woman’s Worth, Health and Wellness Show and Community Forum have been some of the original programming among others provided by the station.
While in Alabama, Bill also served as a Social worker with the Montgomery County Department of Public Health and served as a clinical social worker for the West Alabama Mental Health Center of Eutaw, Alabama. He worked as an adjunct instructor for the Department of Gender and Race Studies and the School of Social Work at the University of Alabama. He has served as President of the South Hull District Neighborhood Association in Montgomery and currently serves as Vice Chair of the Alabama Democratic Conference Tuscaloosa County Chapter and a current member of the Executive Committee of the Alabama Democratic Party. As co-founder of the Tuscaloosa Africana Film Festival he works providing films from the African Diaspora in West Alabama on an annual basis. As an ordained deacon in Christian Community Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Bill coordinates the Beloved Community Lecture Series and the Beloved Community Africa American History Study Group. He also presently serves as a board member of the Pacifica Association of Affiliates and a past member of the Pacifica National Board of Directors (2023).