Rhode Island Public Radio (d/b/a The Public's Radio) is a 501(c)(3) organization. Meetings of the Board of Directors are open to the public. Board meetings are bi-monthly and held on the fourth Wednesday of the month barring any holiday exceptions.
The 2023 meeting calendar is as follows:
January 25
March 22
May 24
July 26
September 27
November 29 (delayed one week because of Thanksgiving).
Board & committee meetings may be conducted virtually via virtual teleconference. For information on attending these meetings email us at info@thepublicsradio.org.
Officers
Elizabeth Delude-Dix, Chair
Laura Lang, Vice Chair
Meredith Curren, Vice Chair & Secretary
Gina McDonald, Treasurer
Directors
Michael Beauregard
Nick Bowen
Nancy Fisher Chudacoff
Jon Fain
Antonieta Falconi
Elizabeth Francis
John Hoey
Scot Jones
Cathy Lund
Torey Malatia
Ronald Margolin
Kenneth Reeves
Rebecca Riley
Susan Rittscher
Lara Salamano
Barbara Braun Schoenfeld
Carolyn Wiesenhahn
Don Wineberg
Toots Zynsky
RIPR is a recipient of grant funds from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and, therefore, subject to certain requirements of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (Act). One obligation of the Act surrounds open meetings of the recipient's Board of Directors (see Sec. 396(k)(4)). The Act allows Board meetings to be closed to the public in order to discuss certain, specified matters (discussion of individual employee(s), proprietary information, litigation, matters involving advice of counsel, confidential commercial or financial information, or the purchase of property or services the exposure of which would compromise the business interests of RIPR). RIPR conducts its meetings in accordance with the open meeting requirements of the Act. Portions of the meetings are closed to the public to discuss these matters.