NPR Welcomes New Board Directors
• NPR last week welcomed welcomed several new members to its board of directors — the action started with the election of A. Rima Dael, General Manager of WSHU/Fairfield, CT (first term); incumbent Jennifer Ferro, President of KCRW/Santa Monica, CA (second term); Maria O’Mara an incumbent from KUER/Salt Lake City, UT (first term); and incumbent Tina Pamintuan, General Manager of KALW/San Francisco (first term), who were elected as Member Directors of the NPR Board of Directors in the 2021 NPR Board elections, with three-year terms beginning in November 2021. Ms. O’Mara and Ms. Pamintuan were previously filling unexpired term vacancies and have now been elected to initial three-year terms.
NPR also is pleased to report that the Membership confirmed the Board’s election of Carlos Watson and Neal Zuckerman to their second three-year terms as Public Directors beginning in November 2021. Watson is an Emmy-winning journalist and co-founder of OZY Media, and Zuckerman is a Sr. Partner and Managing Director in the New York office of the Boston Consulting Group.
On a separate ballot, PRSS representatives ratified the Board’s election of Patricia Deal Cahill to a three-year term as a Non-Board Distribution/Interconnection Committee member beginning in November 2021.
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, nine 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.
