Community Advisory Board

New York Public Radio's Community Advisory Board (CAB)

Welcome to New York Public Radio’s Community Advisory Board!

We’re a volunteer-powered advisory group of radio lovers supporting the future of New York Public Radio.

Be heard! Our town hall-style meetings are a rare chance to share feedback that gets funneled directly to the station and speak with those reporting stories, expanding digitally, and driving fundraising.

Our Mission: We Listen to Those Who Listen.

Our mission: advise NYPR of what the listenership is thinking and feeling.

We are the only in-person forum to share feedback with the stations.
We do not exercise control over management or policy and can’t make statements on behalf of NYPR. We listen.

About the CAB

Meetings are town hall-style — part conversation with a guest, part feedback session.

We’re 25 volunteers, representing different boroughs, backgrounds, ages, and professions.

Each CAB term is 3 years.

We meet monthly with the exception of July, August, December, and February.

*The CAB, as required by federal law, reviews the programming goals established by the station, the service provided by WNYC and WQXR, and the significant policy decisions rendered by the station, and assesses whether the programming and other policies of the station are meeting the specialized educational and cultural needs of the communities served by the station. The CAB deliberates independently of station management and New York Public Radio's Board of Trustees, determining its own agenda and electing its own leadership. The CAB is an advisory body only, and is not authorized to exercise any control over WNYC and WQXR's daily management or operations. The CAB conveys its findings and recommendations based on public input to the Board of Trustees.

CAB 2019-2020 Calendar

September 23, 2019	6:30-8:30pm Location: The Jerome L. Greene Space - 44 Charlton Street, New York, NY Speaker: Depelsha McGruder, Interim Chief Executive Officer of New York Public Radio
October 16, 2019	6:30-8:30pm Location: The Jerome L. Greene Space - 44 Charlton Street, New York, NY Speaker: Andrew Golis, Chief Content Officer, New York Public Radio
November 25, 2019	6:30-8:30pm Location: The Jerome L. Greene Space - 44 Charlton Street, New York, NY Join us and share your feedback on programming and how, we the CAB, can better engage with you, The Public.
December 2019	No Meeting Scheduled
January 15, 2020	6:30-8:30pm Location: The Jerome L. Greene Space - 44 Charlton Street, New York, NY Speaker: TBA
February 2020	No Meeting Scheduled
March 11, 2020	6:30-8:30pm Location: The Jerome L. Greene Space - 44 Charlton Street, New York, NY Speaker: Matt Abramovitz, VP of Programming, WQXR and Merrin Lazyan, Producer of Aria Code
April 2020	No Meeting Scheduled
May 2020	No Meeting Scheduled
June 10, 2020	Tentative

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Chair: The CAB as of June 2019

Nancy Walcott, elected as Chair June 2019, appointed to CAB June 2015

Vice Chairs:

Erica Johnson, elected as Vice Chair June 2018, appointed to the CAB June 2017
Kathryn Tornelli, elected as Vice Chair June 2018, appointed to the CAB June 2016
Lisa Nearier, elected as Vice Chair June 2019, appointed to CAB June 2016

Recording Secretary:

Michael Brown, elected as Co-Secretary June 2019, appointed to CAB June 2017
Grace Clarke, elected as Co-Secretary June 2019, appointed to CAB June 2015

Members: