Erika Pulley-Hayes Named President/CEO of WMFE and WMFV

RADIO ONLINE | Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Erika Pulley-Hayes

The board of trustees of non-commercial News/Talk WMFE/Orlando and WMFV/Gainesville-Ocala FL appoints Corporation for Public Broadcasting VP/Radio Erika Pulley-Hayes as President and CEO, effective January 13. She succeeds Lafontaine E. Oliver, who departed in July to lead NPR member station WYPR/Baltimore.

"WMFE-WMFV provides an important service to Central Florida, and this is an incredible opportunity to build upon the quality journalism and programming this organization delivers to the community," said Pulley-Hayes. "I am very excited to join this team and continue working to enhance the local service that engages audiences across platforms."

"We are excited to welcome Erika Pulley-Hayes to Central Florida," added WMFE-WMFV board chair Anne E. Kelley. "She is uniquely positioned to continue her record of driving innovation, now on the local level, and to further our stations' mission to engage new communities, both on our terrestrial airwaves as well as our growing number of digital platforms."

Pulley-Hayes had served as VP at Washington, DC-based Corporation for Public Broadcasting since 2005. She began her career as a legal assistant at a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company. She later managed legal operations of a small clinical research organization in Virginia.