Directors

MAGALY RIVERA

Magaly Rivera brings over 17 years of experience in strategic planning, business development and fundraising.  Magaly is currently the Development Director at the Hispanic Information & Telecommunications Network (HITN) .  Rivera oversees development and fundraising activities with Government, Foundations and Corporations, as well as building a Donor base program for HITN.  She is also responsible for the Community Relationship department by establishing strategic relationships with major national business, educational and civic organizations that serve the needs of the Latino communities.

Prior to HITN, Rivera managed her own very successful consulting firm for over a decade, which was focused on businesses interested in the Hispanic market.  As Principal Consultant, she worked with a variety of corporations like BBC Americas, Dow Jones, Military Channel, etc.  to support their Hispanic initiatives, providing her expertise and services through business plans, product development, marketing and grant writing.  She has been very successful in obtaining numerous grants for various national not-for-profit organizations and small businesses.  
 

Hispanic Information & Telecommunications Network (HITN) 

SILVIA RIVERA

Silvia is General Manager of 90.5 WRTE-FM/Radio Arte, the official radio station of the National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) in Chicago. Since 1997, Radio Arte has had the distinction of being a Latino-owned, bilingual, youth-driven public radio station that trains youth and adults in media production. As a graduate of Radio Arte’s first media training program, offered to youth between 15-21, Rivera has been a key player in Radio Arte’s successful trajectory. As a youth, Rivera produced several news, public affairs, and music programs, including: Newsbeat, Youth Metro, & Uprooting: A Look at Housing in Chicago. Under her recent leadership, Radio Arte has been recognized with the 2008 Studs Terkel Community Media Award by the Community Media Workshop.

Rivera frequently offers perspectives to a variety of public radio & TV news programs to discuss issues ranging from media consolidation to race relations & civic engagement. Most recently, she was a panelist at the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) Media Ownership hearing in Chicago and testified on the effects of media consolidation on Spanish-language media & disenfranchised communities.

Silvia Rivera received the Founder’s Award in 2007 by the Chicago Foundation for Women, recognizing her as an emerging leader & advocate for young women working in the media. Rivera is an honors graduate of Columbia College in Chicago, and holds a B.A in Media Management. She serves on the Board of Directors of both the National Federation of Community\Broadcasters and the Community Renewal Society and is a member of the Latina Leadership Council (CFW).

WRTE 90.5 FM

ILEANA RIVERA

Ileana Rivera Santa is the Planning and Development Director for the Corporación de Puerto Rico Para La Difusión Publica and is responsible for all fundraising activities for WIPR TV and FM. She also organizes all community outreach activities that impact the health and welfare of residents throughout the commonwealth. Ongoing projects include Ready To Learn workshops teaching parents and child care givers instruction in preparing young children to be literacy ready by the time they are enrolled in school; and Community Partnership 4 X 4 addressing and resolving concerns and issues facing the elderly. Ileana was the motivating force behind the Center for Captioning for WIPR public television. Ileana is a member of the Advisory Committee for the PBS and CPB Children’s Program Development Community Advisory Committee.

Prior to coming to WIPR, Ileana was Director of Programs at the Institute for Puerto Rican Culture and produced historical documentaries, educational and public affairs programs for WMTJ TV in San Juan. In addition to her work in public media, Ileana has directed over 30 plays in the most important theater centres of Puerto Rico.

Corporación de Puerto Rico Para la Difusión Publica

RAÚL RAMÍREZ

Raúl is Executive Director for News and Public Affairs for KQED Public Radio, where he has led local news and public affairs activities since 1991. He has worked for The Miami Herald, The Washington Post, Oakland Tribune and the San Francisco Examiner. Ramírez is former President of the Board of the Center for Investigative Reporting and has won numerous awards for local, national and international reporting.

In 1993, he helped create local civic journalism partnership experiments in five U.S. regions. The resulting Bay Area Voice of the Voter partnership, including KQED-FM, the San Francisco Chronicle and KRON-TV, was one of the most successful public-commercial civic journalism projects in the country. Ramírez is a former Fellow in Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii’s Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and a 1994 Fellow at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. He has reported throughout the United States and in China, Japan, Southeast Asia and Central America. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Regional Media and Information, a non-profit organization created by Ukrainian and Western European journalists to aid and promote the development of independent media in Ukraine.
 
KQED Public Radio

HUGO MORALES

Hugo is Founder and Executive Director of Radio Bilingüe, the Latino public radio network. The network provides a national satellite service in English, Spanish, Mixteco and Hmong. It serves over half a million listeners with its pioneering daily Spanish-language national talk show, Línea Abierta, its independently produced news service, Noticiero Latino, and its rainbow of Spanish-language folk music for its national Latino audiences. In 1994, Mr. Morales received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and in 1999 the Corporation for Public Broadcasting honored Mr. Morales with the Murrow Award, public radio’s highest distinction. He was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from California State University Fresno. Considered a visionary in expanding public radio’s reach to diverse audiences, he is committed to community service and has achieved much of his success by creating and nurturing strategic alliances within the local and national Latino and public broadcasting communities. 

 Radio Bilingue Network

GINNY Z. BERSON  

Ginny is Vice President and Director of Federation Services for the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB), a position she has held since 1998. Prior to joining NFCB, Berson was Senior Producer of Live National Programs for Pacifica Radio and Program Director and Director of Women’s Programming at KPFA.

Berson produces the annual NFCB Community Radio Conference; provides consulting services to member stations on FCC regulations, best practices, and other issues; and invents and directs numerous projects. She was instrumental in creating and running the National  Youth in Radio Training Project and the Rural Programming Initiative among others. Her current projects include Youth Radio Journalism and the First Amendment, New Technology/New Music, Measuring Noncommercial Radio’s Impact in Rural Communities, the 33rd Annual Community Radio Conference, a Disaster Readiness project (in conjunction with NPR) for all public radio stations and the Latino Public Radio Consortium.

 National Federation of Community Broadcasters

VICTOR MONTILLA

Victor is President of the Puerto Rico Public Broadcasting Corporation, heading two television stations and two radio stations since 2005. He immediately set important goals that became the center of his tenure: the pursuit of excellence and the export of Puerto Rican productions. Thanks to broadcasting licensing agreements reached with Televicentro, for the first time in the history of TUTV, Channels 6 and 3, projects conceived by the Lucy Boscana Dramatic Program have reached audiences in different viewing segments, generating additional income for TUTV.

The audience levels of Allegro 91.3FM and 940AM - the Corporation’s radio stations - increased by 300% thanks to a restructuring of facilities and programming. As part of his goal to expand the reach of Puerto Rican programming, Montilla negotiated an unprecedented agreement with Televicentro-WAPAmerica to broadcast TUTV’s shows in key Hispanic markets throughout the United States. In December 2006 Montilla became the first Puerto Rican to receive the Governor’s Award, the highest honor bestowed by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, for his tireless efforts and work on behalf of the Puerto Rican television industry.

Puerto Rico Public Broadcasting Corporation

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