Staff & Board of Directors

Staff

Alexis Reed

Director of Production, Intern Coordinator



Ask me about:

  • How to plan a production
  • Getting trained on equipment
  • Live streaming and broadcasting
  • Editing with Premiere and Photoshop
  • Starting your Podcast
  • Interning at Amherst Media

Yanna Ok

Director of Media & Digital Content



Ask me about:

  • Airing a program or PSA on TV
  • Digitizing and Archiving
  • Using Social Media
  • Content Creation & Trends
  • Editing with Premiere

Jim Lescault

Executive Director



Ask me about:

  • Hiring Amherst Media to cover your event
  • Partnering with Amherst Media
  • How to support Amherst Media
  • Training for youths (12 to 17 years old)

Board of Directors

Amherst Media has bylaws and a Board of Directors. We maintain a calendar of board and committee meetings. Regular meetings are on the first Thursday of each month at 5:30pm, but please check the calendar for changes. The meetings, located at Amherst Media, are open to the public with a public comment period at the start of the meeting.

Vira Douangmany Cage

Board President

  • Associate Director & Service Coordinator for BakuCare Adult Day Health
  • Advisory Board of the Massachusetts Women of Color Coalition
  • Previously: Amherst School Committee

Artie McCollum

Board Vice President

  • Land conservation & environmental work
  • Zoology & Marine Biology
  • Amherst Media BOD since 2010

Dr. Demetria Rougeux Shabazz

Board Treasurer

  • National Council for Black Studies
  • Massachusetts Women of Color Coalition
  • Association for the Study of African American Life and History
  • Community Safety and Social Justice Committee

Justin Beatty

Board Secretary

  • Founder of the Odenong Powwow
  • UMass Indigenous Policy, Culture, and Art
  • Social Distance Powwow Board of Directors
  • Board of Trustees for the Connecticut River Conservancy

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Jennifer Shiao

Amherst-Pelham Regional School
Committee Representative

  • Amherst School Committee Member

Dr. Razvan Sibii

Higher Education Representative

  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Daily Hampshire Gazette

Dr. Ruth Bass Green

Board Member

  • Founder & President of the Hazelle Catherine Bass Institute for the Arts
  • Previously: Mount Holyoke Psychology & Education

Jamahl Jackson

Board Member

  • MahlG-FM and the Real Hip-Hop is Alive podcast
  • Amherst Regional Public Schools Athletics Department

Margaret Sawyer

Board Member

  • Sanctuary in the Streets Interfaith Network
  • Ordained Minister of The United Church of Christ
  • "Radio Indigena" of the Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project

Marita Banda

Board Member

  • Amherst Regional High School Special Education
  • Best Buddies Club
  • Banda Bola Sports Foundation/Chituka Village Project
  • Local Spiritual Assembly of Amherst
  • Race Amity Day

Manpreet Kaur ESQ.

Board Member

  • Alpha Phi Sigma National Criminal Justice Honor Society
  • Sigma Alpha Lambda National Leadership & Honors Organization
  • Massachusetts Bar Association
  • Hampden County Bar Association
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