When Forman was a University of Illinois senior majoring in broadcast journalism, she interned at a Champaign television station and several local radio stations, including WLRW-FM, where she did the news for the morning show with John McKeegan and Maura Myles.  Forman also worked for the campus radio station, WPGU. She did her Bart Simpson voice for a commercial on WPGU, and when McKeegan and Myles heard it, they asked her to become part of the show.  Soon, Forman was filling in regularly for the pair.

Just as she was graduating McKeegan and Myles left and Forman was offered the job of hosting her own show. "I was terrified. I didn't know what I would say for four hours," she says.

Forman was later joined by a co-host who did an impeccable Homer Simpson to her Bart, and the show took off. Together they would do stunts for charity, once sitting on a teeter-totter for 24 hours to raise money to build Prairie Park in Urbana.

"Every time I go back to Champaign, I stop and visit the park and think about how many people came together to make it happen," she says.  "That's the great part about radio."

Forman left Champaign for Cincinnati in 1997, where she hosted her own show before returning to Chicago in 1999.  She worked at another Chicago station before joining WLIT in April 2001.  She is quick to credit the largely male crews she has worked with for her success.  "I've never been a banner-carrying feminist person," Forman says, "but it is nice to have so many people around me who believe in me.

"It's nice to step out of the stereotype that the woman has to be giggly side person."