Community Advisory Board

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

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Welcome to the New York Public Radio Community Advisory Board!

We are a volunteer-powered independent body of radio lovers supporting the future of public radio in New York.

Our mission: we connect communities to content, listen to those who listen, and advise NYPR on what the listenership is thinking and feeling.

Our goal: to improve the listener experience, and to ensure that station content and strategy are meeting the specialized educational, coverage, and cultural needs of the communities it serves.

Our reach is vast: covering a listening area stretching from the Hudson Valley to Delaware Bay, inclusive of all Five Boroughs, much of Long Island, Rockland & Westchester Counties, and the entire state of New Jersey.

We serve all of New York Public Radio: our remit encompasses all areas of station programming and content, including WNYC, WQXR, NJPR, Gothamist, WNYC Studios, and the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space.

The CAB, as mandated by federal law, exists to provide specific value-added feedback to senior leadership and the NYPR Board of Trustees. We facilitate public fora with the listening public six times per fiscal year, and convey our findings and recommendations to the Board of Trustees. We further our mission by partnering with the station in all areas of community outreach and engagement. We are both a proxy for the listenership, and a conduit to the listening area as a whole.

We are listener volunteers serving for terms of up to six years, representing a diverse group of lifestyles, demographics, communities, boroughs, backgrounds, ages, affinities, and professions. We are equal parts ambassadors, advisors, and strategic partners for the station.

The CAB deliberates independently of station management and New York Public Radio's Board of Trustees, determining its own agenda, recruiting its own members, and electing its own leadership. Our role is strictly advisory. As such, we are not authorized to exercise any control over WNYC and WQXR's daily management or operations.

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 FY25 Calendar (July 2024 - June 2025)

CAB public forum meetings are conducted virtually beginning at 6:30 p.m.  Please visit the CAB Facebook page for more information.  You must register to receive access details.

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Listeners 60+

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

 

High School Students

Please RSVP in advance (click here) 

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Topic To Be Announced

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Topic To Be Announced

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Topic To Be Announced

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Topic To Be Announced

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The CAB  (as of June 2024)

Chair:

Hani Omar Khalil, appointed June 2020, elected as Chair, June 2023 to present

Members:

Monique Aiken, appointed June 2024
Nomi Berenson, appointed June 2021
Andy Blancero, appointed June 2024
David Boyd Booker, appointed June 2020
Christopher Bromson, appointed June 2021
Adriana Carrillo-Silva, appointed June 2022
Derrick D. Donald, appointed June 2024
Lauren Filler, appointed June 2019
Amy Gotzler, appointed June 2022
Emily Hacker, appointed June 2019
Dustin Joyce, appointed June 2024
David Lowenstein, appointed June 2019
Joyce Ma, appointed June 2024
Pawel Maslag, appointed June 2024
Patrick Masseo, appointed June 2024
Caroline C. Pasion, appointed June 2021
Heather Quinlan, appointed June 2024
Justin Sanchez, appointed June 2024
Yvonne Shortt, appointed June 2022
Miles Siegel, appointed June 2024
Chloe Snyder, appointed June 2024
Holly Teichholtz, appointed June 2022
Azure Thompson, appointed June 2022
Felipe Tristan, appointed June 2022

Board of Trustees’ CAB Liaison: Anita Laremont

 

CAB Minutes:

August 2024

June 2024

May 2024

March 2024

February 2024

November 2023

October 2023

Fiscal Year 2023

Fiscal Year 2022

March 2021

January 2021

October 2020

October 2019

September 2019

June 2019

May 2019

April 2019

March 2019

January 2019

November 2018

October 2018

September 2018

June 2018

May 2018

April 2018

March 2018

January 2018

November 2017

October 2017

September 2017

June 2017

May 2017

April 2017

March 2017

January 2017

November 2016

October 2016

September 2016

May 2016

April 2016

October 2015 - Summary Report

October 2015

September 2015

June 2015

May 2015 - Summary Report
May 2015

April 2015 - Summary Report
April 2015

March 2015 - Summary Report
March 2015 

February 2015 - Summary Report
February 2015
January 2015
November 2014
October 2014
September 2014
June 2014
May 2014
April 2014
March 2014
February 2014
January 2014 
December 2013 - no CAB meeting
November 2013

October 2013
September 2013
June 2013
May 2013
April 2013
March 2013
February 2013
January 2013
December 2012 - no CAB meeting
November 2012
October 2012
September 2012
April 2012
March 2012
February 2012
January 2012
November 2011
September 2011
May 2011
April 2011
March 2011
December 2010
March 2010
February 2010
January 2010
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
November 2008
May 2008
February 2008
January 2008
November 2007
October 2007
May 2007
April 2007
February 2007
January 2007
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
January 2006
October 2005
September 2005
May 2005
April 2005
February 2005
January 2005