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Management-Staff

Randy Eccles

General Manager, NPR Illinois/ Co-Host, Community Voices/ CAB Ex-Officio
Sean Crawford

Managing Editor, NPR Illinois/ CAB Ex-Officio
Kate McKenzie

Director of Development, NPR Illinois/ CAB Ex-Officio
Audrey Bellot

Office Manager
Tim Boll

Chief Engineer
Beatrice Bonner

Community Voices - Editor/ Co-Host
Michelle Eccles

Anchor/ Reporter
Vanessa Ferguson

Community Voices - Production Coordinator
Jeremy Goeckner

Front Row Network Editor-In-Chief
Mike Krcil

Anchor/Reporter
Dave Leonatti

Nightsounds Host/ Producer
Craig McFarland

Front Row Network Host
Maureen Foertsch McKinney

News Editor
Bill Porter

Backup Engineer
Jennifer Ramm

Bluegrass Breakdown Host/ Producer
Valerie Dish Udemba

Business Coordinator
Scott Washburn

Backup Engineer
Charles N. Wheeler III

Analyst

Reporters

Springfield Reporters

Sean Crawford

Managing Editor, NPR Illinois/ CAB Ex-Officio
Michelle Eccles

Anchor/ Reporter
Mike Krcil

Anchor/Reporter
Maureen Foertsch McKinney

News Editor

Community Advisory Board (CAB)

CAB

Jen McMillin

CAB Chair, Founder, Sunshine Strategies
Teresa Jones

CAB Past-Chair - Associate State Director, Advocacy & Outreach, AARP Illinois
Steve Anderson

CAB Member - Community Partnerships Coordinator, New Trier Township
Deanie Brown

CAB Member - Attorney, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the Illinois Supreme Court
John Carpenter

CAB Member - Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
Regina Kovach

CAB Member - Retired, Professor of Clinical Medicine at SIU School of Medicine, Year Three Curriculum Director
Lisbeth Leanos

CAB Member - Executive Chairman of Professional Development, International Association of Workforce Professionals
Michael Morthland

CAB Member - Senior Vice President, Mercury Public Affairs
Jodi Ogilvy

CAB Member - Chief Communications Officer for Hope
Kent Redfield

CAB Member - Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Illinois Springfield
Garth Reynolds

CAB Member - Executive Director, Illinois Pharmacists Association
Christina Shutt

CAB Member - Executive Director, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Erma Brooks Williams

CAB Member - Illinois Black Legislative Caucus
Mia Woods

CAB Member - Director of Organizational Development, Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Timothy L. Killeen

President, University of Illinois System/ CAB Ex-Officio
Janet Gooch

Chancellor, University of Illinois Springfield/CAB Ex-Officio
Molly Lamb

Executive Director, Center for State Policy and Leadership, University of Illinois Springfield/ CAB Ex-Officio
Randy Eccles

General Manager, NPR Illinois/ Co-Host, Community Voices/ CAB Ex-Officio
Sean Crawford

Managing Editor, NPR Illinois/ CAB Ex-Officio
Kate McKenzie

Director of Development, NPR Illinois/ CAB Ex-Officio

Past CAB

MarySue Barrett

Advisory Board
Natalie Beck

Community Advisory Board
Brian Brady

Advisory Board
Cynthia Canary

CAB Member - Senior Advisor, Committee for Economic Development, Democratic Institutions Program
Robert J. Christie

Community Advisory Board
Jon S. Davis

Community Advisory Board, Ex-Officio
Michael Diaz

Community Advisory Board
Kathleen Dunn

Community Advisory Board
Jamey Dunn-Thomason

Community Advisory Board - Former Illinois Issues Editor
Loretta Durbin

WUIS Campus & Community Council
Jim Edgar

Community Advisory Board
David Farrell

WUIS Campus & Community Council
Robert Gallo

Community Advisory Board
Monique Garcia

Community Advisory Board
Sharon Gist Gilliam

Community Advisory Board
Kelly Glass

CAB Member - Independent editor, content strategist, journalist.
Graham Grady

Community Advisory Board
Eric Hadley-Ives

Community Advisory Board
William Holland

Community Advisory Board
Beverly Holmes

WUIS Campus & Community Council
Diane Lopez Hughes

Advisory Board
Bethany Jaeger

Principal, KEB/ Community Advisory Board, past-chair
Mario Jimenez

Community Advisory Board
Munindra Khaund

WUIS Campus & Community Council
Susan J. Koch

Community Advisory Board, Ex-Officio
David Kohn

CAB Member - Deputy Commissioner, Regional Partnerships, City of Chicago Department of Water Management
Barbara Lestikow

WUIS Campus & Community Council
Phillip Lopez

Community Advisory Board
Alden Loury

Community Advisory Board
Linda McCaffrey

Community Advisory Board
Brad McMillan

Community Advisory Board
Christopher Z. Mooney

Community Advisory Board, 2013-2017
Laurence J. Msall

Community Advisory Board
Adam Porter

CAB Past Chair - Joel Scarborough Professor of Religion, Illinois College
Sylvia Puente

Advisory Board
David Racine

Community Advisory Board Emeritus
Stephanie Rhodes

Community Advisory Board
Nikita Richards

CAB Member - Communications and Crisis Management Professional
Blake Roderick

Community Advisory Board
Tom Ryder

Advisory Board
Charles W. Scholz

CAB Member - Attorney, Scholz and Scholz, LLC
Richard Schuldt

CAB Member - Retired, Survey Research Office, University of Illinois Springfield
Linda Slagell

WUIS Campus & Community Council
Jeremiah Stephan

Community Advisory Board
Mikal Sutton

Community Advisory Board
Alysia Tate

Advisory Board
Kelly Thompson

Advisory Board
Jhatayn "Jay" Travis

Advisory Board
George Van Dusen

CAB Member - Mayor, Village of Skokie
Karen M. Whitney

Community Advisory Board, Ex-Officio
Karen Witter

CAB Member - Freelance writer/Retired from the State of Illinois
Gayle Woodson

WUIS Campus & Community Council

All

A Noah Harrison
A.J. Simmons

Research director, UIS Center for State Policy and Leadership
Aaron Bolton
Aaron Schrank
Aarti Shahani
Abbie Fentress Swanson
Abby Wendle
Abe Aboraya
Abigail Censky
Abigail Clukey
Abigail Stalets

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