 Kornfeld got her start in radio at CITR-FM, the campus station at Vancouver's University of British Columbia where fellow disc jockeys included Terry McBride, founder of the Nettwerk label, and former "Globe and Mail" music critic Chris Dafoe.After graduating from UBC she went on to work at CFOX-FM, first as a technical operator during the 2-6 a.m. shift and then as the writer for the syndicated program "The Rock Journal".Following her stint at CFOX she ventured into television writing at the CBC.