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The host of Financial Fitness

About the host

Meet
Nneka.

A proud KMOJ voice who keeps the money conversation close to home and makes room for our people to move forward.

Wednesdays6:00–6:30 PM89.9 KMOJ FM
Nneka Constantino, host of Financial Fitness on KMOJ 89.9 FM.
Nneka Constantino
Host / community advocate

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Meet Nneka beyond the work

A few personal signals

The voice behind the voice.

Favorite KMOJ DJ
QBear
Favorite songs
“Funkytown,” “She,” “Organic,” and “Optimistic”
Favorite neighborhoods
Rondo and the Northside
First love
These kids
Catch me at
the co-op, a concert, the airport, or my garden
Bestie
Cynthia Johnson

Meet Nneka

She shows up for the people.

Nneka Constantino is the host of Financial Fitness and a proud representative of KMOJ, The People’s Station. She has been serving KMOJ since 2003 as volunteer financial fitness director at the Center for Communications and Development, and she still shows up with the same purpose: help our people make sense of money, opportunity, and what comes next. KMOJ is proud to have her in the mix.

Read Nneka’s profile

Financial Fitness is not a line on Nneka’s résumé. It is aligned with her passion and her way of showing up. She created the show to make the money conversation plain, and as its host, she represents KMOJ in the community with warmth, pride, and a fearless commitment to protecting listeners from financial advertising that takes advantage of people. Out of that commitment, she built the Financial Fitness vault: a library made specifically for The People’s Station, filled with candid conversations with national leaders and straight-talk money lessons. It is a treasure listeners can only find by tuning in every Wednesday.

Professionally, Nneka works as a Vice President and Senior Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, but here at KMOJ, she’s simply the host who cares deeply about helping our people make sense of money and opportunity. Her career path includes working the trading floor at Piper Jaffray in Minneapolis and later working at Smith Barney. Those chapters inform her perspective.

Off air, Nneka is a requested speaker on wealth creation and economic empowerment. Nneka Constantino is a vocalist with the Grammy Award-winning Sounds of Blackness and a graduate of Howard University. She is the daughter of Minnesota musical legend Cynthia Johnson, known for “Funkytown.” Her content contributed to the PBS/TPT collaboration Make Money Work, which was recognized with a Regional Emmy. Honors like Ebony’s 30 Under 30 and Finance & Commerce’s Top Women in Finance have followed her work. Her heart is in the work so wherever she is she consistently shows up with pride and purpose.

Tune in every Wednesday, 6:00–6:30 PM on 89.9 KMOJ FM. There is a whole vault of conversations waiting for you.

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KMOJ / The press kit

The People's Station

KMOJ station-wide reach, audience and history — Financial Fitness airs within this larger community broadcast.

KMOJ on air since

1976

KMOJ hit the airwaves in 1976, providing broadcast communications training for African Americans in the Twin Cities, and is the only Urban Adult Contemporary radio station in the market.

KMOJ weekly reach

250K

KMOJ reaches an estimated 250,000 unduplicated listeners each week across the Minneapolis–St. Paul metro.

KMOJ local audience

75%

KMOJ reaches 75% of its audience in the immediate Minneapolis and St. Paul communities.

KMOJ audience

18–54

KMOJ reaches the largest number of African American adults 18–54 in the Twin Cities market.

These are KMOJ station-wide numbers. Financial Fitness is one half-hour of that every Wednesday — and it’s growing its own audience one episode at a time.

The format

R&B, hip-hop, gospel, jazz and R&B oldies, plus public affairs programming that addresses real-time community needs.

From the vault

Archive Fan Favorites

A growing shelf of conversations worth returning to.

Nneka Constantino interviews John Rogers Jr. at KMOJ 89.9 FM studios

John Rogers

Building through uncertainty.

Nneka sat down with John Rogers Jr., Founder and CEO of Ariel Investments, for an interview about markets, leadership, and staying grounded when the headlines get loud.

Featured Fan Favorite: John Rogers, Founder & CEO of Ariel Investments — a conversation that hit home.

Download the interview

About John Rogers

  • Founder, chairman, co-CEO and chief investment officer of Ariel Investments — the first Black-owned mutual fund company in the United States.
  • Founded Ariel in 1983 at age 24 after graduating from Princeton University, where he captained the varsity basketball team.
  • Named one of the “World’s 99 Greatest Investors” alongside Warren Buffett.
  • Board director of Nike and The New York Times Company; served on McDonald’s and Exelon boards.
  • Co-chaired President Barack Obama’s 2009 Presidential Inaugural Committee.
  • Founded Ariel Community Academy, a Chicago public school built around financial literacy.
  • In 2023 launched Project Black, a $1.45 billion private-equity initiative supporting Black and Latino entrepreneurs.