Yvonne Mastromano joined the Virginia Voice team in January 2022 as the Chief Executive Officer. Although she now feels that her feet are firmly planted in Virginia soil, Yvonne is an upstate New York transplant. She attended Ithaca College, where she earned her Bachelor of Music degree with an emphasis in piano and a minor in voice. After graduation, Yvonne was recruited to be the Assistant Director in the museum where she spent her summers during college as a tour guide and three years later was promoted to Executive Director of a museum in Yonkers, NY.
After moving to Virginia, Mastromano decided to make a career change to broadcast television and was hired by the local NBC affiliate, WWBT-12. Yvonne had the opportunity to become the first person in Richmond to do live traffic reports and quickly earned the moniker of “Traffic Lady.”
In 2012, she returned to non-profit work as the Executive Director for the Innsbrook Foundation, where she remained for nine years before being drawn to the mission of Virginia Voice. She is currently focused on expanding Virginia Voice’s reach to serve more individuals with blindness, vision impairment and other disabilities, raise awareness, increase funding, and build brand identity.
Yvonne is a 2020 Leadership Metro Richmond graduate and serves on several local non-profit boards. When not working in the community, she enjoys spending time with her husband and their two sons at the family restaurant and at home walking their two fur babies.

Sharalyn Garrard joined Virginia Voice in 2018 as a Live Audio Describer. In 2020, when the theater scene shut down, she became a Remote Reader. A native Richmonder, Sharalyn obtained her B.A. in Speech and Drama From Hampton (Institute) University in 1982. From there she lived in Los Angeles for 5 years working as a Stage Manager at various theaters. She returned to Richmond in 1989, where she continued her theatrical career both on and off the stage. Currently, she is the Community Engagement Coordinator at Virginia Voice. Sharalyn is also the Administrator of The Dominion Energy Christmas Parade, and enjoys singing in One Voice Chorus of Richmond as well as her church choir, and any time she gets to spend with her 2 grandsons.

Becky came to work with Virginia Voice in 1986 and continued until retirement 28 years later, 26 of those years as Program Director. As it was a very small staff (3) in those first few years, she worked in nearly every aspect of the service, managing volunteers, issuing radios, keeping up with listeners, managing programming, reading, operating the studio, and managing part-time studio technicians. As Virginia Voice expanded in staff, service and facility, Program Director tasks changed to include the move to digital programming which allowed Virginia Voice to increase broadcast hours to 24 hours daily, the addition of a website and online programming and a full-time Studio Manager. After retirement, she realized she was addicted to Virginia Voice and continued to volunteer, delivering radios when needed and reading the weekly program “Looking Back.” Now she’s happy to return as part-time studio assistant, feeling right at home in the studio and happy to reconnect with long-time volunteers and meet more recent ones. She’s very excited to be part of the continued growth of Virginia Voice. She lives with her daughter Soo, who is waiting for a kidney transplant, and they share a love of horseback riding. Becky can often be found trying her hand at gardening, with very little success, and lawn maintenance. Other hobbies include reading and traveling and spending time with her grandchildren.