NPR Welcomes New Board of Directors Elections

RADIO ONLINE | Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | 3:29pm CT

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NPR has elected new board members, including four Member Directors, four Public Directors and one Non-Board Distribution/Interconnection Committee member. Scott Finn, Vermont Public, Stephen George, Louisville Public Media, Myrna Johnson, Iowa Public Radio (incumbent), and Erika Pulley-Hayes, WAMU, Washington, D.C. (incumbent) were elected as Member Directors of NPR, with three-year terms beginning in November.

In addition to the Member Director election, the membership confirmed the board's elections of Scott Donaton, media, marketing, and creative executive, to complete a vacant unexpired term that expires in November, 2025, Matthew Barzun, Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Sweden and Owner and Publisher of Louisville Magazine, and LeRoy Kim, Managing Director, Allen & Company, to their initial three-year terms as Public Directors, both beginning in November. Plus, Judith Segura, Lead Thermal Architect, Apple, Inc., to her second three-year term as a Public Director, beginning in November 2023.

On a separate ballot, Public Radio Satellite System (PRSS),representatives ratified the board's election of Mollie Kabler to a second three-year term as a Non-Board Distribution/Interconnection Committee member beginning in November.

NPR's 23-member board of directors is comprised of 12 Member Directors who are managers of NPR Member stations and are elected to the Board by their fellow Member stations, 9 Public Directors who are prominent members of the public selected by the Board and confirmed by NPR Member stations, the NPR Foundation Chair, and the NPR President & CEO.