Born in Stillwater, OK in 1966, Darren is known as the "Voice of Columbia, Missouri" for his 20-plus years as local host of NPR's "Morning Edition" on KBIA-FM and committment to community involvement over the years. He is sports director and hosts the "Thinking Out Loud" series of interview programs. Darren also is employed part-time at Cool Stuff in downtown Columbia.

Married with two almost grown-up children, a committed Christian with universalist beliefs and interest in other faiths and beliefs, long-time Democratic Party activist and former president of Boone County Muleskinners, was campaign chairman for former state Rep. and Senator Chuck Graham (also known as the guy in the wheelchair who was asked to stand up by Joe Biden)

Darren was a candidate for Columbia Board of Education in 1998, and education remains a major focus of his interests, along with social and economic justice. He's a big sports fan and has taken the opportunity as KBIA Sports Director to cover the 2009 NCAA Women's Final Four for National Public Radio, he's also covered Major League Baseball, NFL and NHL games, Big 12 football championships and basketball tourneys, NCAA soccer and softball regionals and knows the liberal churches, plus good places to get pizza and beer, in most Big 12 towns.

Darren survived an Arnold-Chiari Malformation, having decompression surgery in May of 2000. Look it up if you're curious, it's the same weird brain disorder Rosanne Cash had.

Darren's a music lover with perversely diverse tastes ranging from Flaming Lips to Willie Nelson and Beethoven and Wynton Marsalis to Earth, Wind and Fire and plenty of Grateful Dead along the way.