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. 

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.