Loris Ann Taylor - Executive Director

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (Hopi) is Executive Director of Native Public Media representing the media interests of Native America through radio, journalism, new media technologies, and public policy. She was honored with a 2006 Louis T. Delgado Distinguished Grantmaker Award from Native Americans in Philanthropy and with the 2005 Leadership for a Changing World Award by the Ford Foundation. Taylor was formerly the General Manager of KUYI-FM, Hopi Radio where she co-founded the UNITY Award winning “Indian Country News Bureau.” She also produced the children’s program “Shooting Stars” and a weekly talk show “House Calls” which received an award from the U. S. Indian Health Service. Taylor instituted the first radio class/curriculum at the Hopi Junior Senior High School.

From 1993 – 2004, Taylor served as Associate Director of the Hopi Foundation , the largest 501(c)(3) organization on the Hopi Reservation, working to continually improve the living condition of families on the Reservation. She also represented 19 of Arizona's 21 tribes as intergovernmental affairs liaison and served her own tribe as Special Assistant under the Office of General Counsel in the areas of land, water and energy matters. In 1995, Taylor represented native women at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. She has served as Vice President of the Harvard Honoring Nations Award winning Hopi Education Endowment Fund and currently serves on the board for the Suicide Prevention Action Network USA.

Peggy Berryhill - Director of Services and Planning

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (Muscogee) is Native Public Media’s Director of Media Architecture and Services designing media and technology opportunities and solutions to build media capacity for Native America. Peggy has been on the NPM staff since the organization’s founding in 2004, originally working as Director of Program Services. She is the founder of the Native Media Resource Center, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to produce educational materials about indigenous communities and promote cross-cultural understanding and racial harmony. Her media expertise and commitment to community earned her the American Indian 2005 Local Heroes award from KQED-FM public broadcasting in San Francisco. Peggy began her career in broadcasting in 1973. She has been a Program Director at KUNM-FM, KPFA-FM, and KALW-FM, and is the only Native person to have worked as a full-time producer at National Public Radio (NPR) in the Specialized Audience Programs Department from 1978-79.Sarah Shelley This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it , Director of Development

Camille Lacapa - Network Services Manager

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (Hopi-Tewa and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe) joined the Native Public Media staff in November 2008 to serve as Network Services Manager. She is the former Station and Audience Relations Manager for Native Voice One. She has worked in public radio for twenty-one years, and served as Station Manager of WOJB-FM in Reserve, Wisconsin from 1991-2005. She has produced national radio programs for the American Indian Radio on Satellite (AIROS), the National Museum of the American Indian, and the Koahnic Broadcast Corporation. Her radio experience also includes serving on the National Federation of Community Broadcasters board from 1993 to 1997. Camille is an enrolled member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe.

Kai Aiyetoro - Director of Financial Affairs

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is the Director of Financial Affairs for Native Public Media and Chief Operating Officer for the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. Kai has worked in community radio for over twenty years and has served as Operations/Development Director at KKFI-FM in Kansas City, MO; Program/Music Director at KJLU-FM in Jefferson City, MO; and Business/General Manager at WRFG-FM in Atlanta, GA. Kai served as NFCB consultant to community organizations throughout the country assisting with the development of LPFM stations prior to her current position. She wrote and compiled the resource manual “Starting an LPFM Station.”

Carolyn Caton- Development Manager

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it joined NFCB in 2005. She previously worked at CTCG, a nonprofit political and technology consulting company in San Francisco. Originally from Philadelphia, she has returned to the east coast to live in New York City where she marvels at the breadth and depth of the subway system.  A volunteer with YEAH! Youth Emergency Assistance Hostel since 2005, Carolyn plans to continue her youth advocacy work in New York.

Traci L. Morris, PhD - Policy Analyst

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (Chickasaw) holds a Ph.D. in American Indian Studies. She is the Policy Analyst for Native Public Media. Prior to working for Native Public Media, Traci owned and operated Homahota Consulting. She has worked with Native urban and tribal communities in the state of Arizona, with state agencies, the Arizona governor’s office, the Phoenix Indian Center, and tribal leaders in policy analysis, resource development, and training and technical assistance. She has lectured widely over the years to community and government organizations on a wide range of Native issues and topics.
 
Morris has also lectured at universities throughout the country. She has nine years of teaching experience at various colleges and universities in Arizona, including the University of Arizona and Arizona State University. Currently, she is adjunct faculty for the American Indian Studies Department at Arizona State University and in the Native American Studies Department at Eastern Central University in Oklahoma.