We are featuring Diana Amaya this month! She is the Operations Support Assistant for the Communication Department at Trinity and new host of the show Hybrid Moments. This means she supports technical needs of the faculty, staff and students including the TigerTV and KRTU operations. She is also a freelance graphic designer. She makes logos for all types of clients, ranging from local bands to small businesses. Diana was the designer of KRTU’s Indie Overnight Showcase flyer. In her spare time, if she is caught up on her design work, Diana enjoys cooking, listening to a true crime podcast, or playing a video game.

Back in high school, Diana Amaya had a friend who recorded his own music. He made instrumental music and put out an album titled Colorful Nightmare. The album “was generally reminiscent of Explosions in the Sky meeting American Football and then getting beers with Tera Melos.” Her friend is now the drummer in a band called Jankem in Austin, Texas. He introduced her to the jazz elements in his music, spurring her to look into artists like Melody Gardot and Madeleine Peyroux. Back then, she “lived in a box of just punk and psychobilly music, so getting some exposure to sounds so wildly different from what [she] was used to was refreshing and opened [her] up to entire worlds of music [she] had been missing out on. I still love punk and psychobilly, but my music tastes now are kind of all over the place.” Currently she is loving Frankie and the Witch Fingers’ 2017 album, Sidewalk. “It’s one of those albums you can play all the way through without a single skip.” Her favorite track off of Sidewalk is the closing song, “Thinking About You”.

Diana began her involvement with KRTU at the beginning of 2021 when she was transferred to the Communications department from the Information Technology Services department. She always knew about KRTU, but did not think she would have the opportunity to work with us until that transition. Once she transferred, she knew she wanted to start hosting her own show - a show now titled Hybrid Moments.

Hybrid Moments airs on Saturdays at 10pm. The show includes a mix of old and new music including genres such as punk, surf, and garage. Every show has a section that is dedicated to letting listeners know about upcoming local concerts, new releases, upcoming tours, and local artists. The community outreach aspect of KRTU is important to Diana, so she enjoys lifting up local artists through her show. When thinking about creating her show the line from the Misfits song ‘Hybrid Moments’ kept popping up. This line is, “If you’re gonna scream, scream with me.” Once she found that inspiration and created a logo for the show it really came together, using that quote as the central idea. The main way she organizes her show at the moment is through mood and tempo. So, when you listen to Hybrid Moments expect to join her on a “smooth drive through the music rather than getting thrown all over a map throughout the hour”.


“I love that KRTU supports local artists while exposing our community to jazz from all over the world, and provides education on jazz in historical and cultural contexts. Kory and JJ share such an incredible wealth of information that really makes you appreciate jazz not only as a genre but as an entire cultural institution. KRTU gives students unique experiential learning opportunities, and holds community events to give back to the listeners that support the station. It truly is a listener-focused station, and I'm so proud to be able to contribute to it.”

  • Diana Amaya

Hybrid Moments airs on Saturdays at 10pm.

Hybrid Moments sample playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0uqQ7k028euAhDnnLDqQBv?si=745370af119747d4