Public Media Infrastructure Announces Inaugural Board Leadership

LaFontaine E. Oliver (New York Public Radio) Named as Chair

Anni Caporuscio (KKCR Community Radio); Mariana Robertson (KCAW Raven Radio); José Martínez-Saldaña (Radio Bilingüe); Vijay Singh (VT Public Radio); Kenya Young (Louisville Public Media) Join as Board Members

(New York, NY – Feb 12, 2026) – Public Media Infrastructure (PMI) today announced the appointment of its inaugural Board of Trustees, including new board leadership and five new members who join representatives from PMI’s co-founding organizations.

New York Public Radio (NYPR) Executive Chair LaFontaine Oliver is named Chair of the Board. The Board’s new members are Anni Caporuscio, General Manager of KKCR Community Radio (Kaua’i, Hawaii); Mariana Robertson, General Manager of KCAW Raven Radio (Sitka, Alaska); José Martínez-Saldaña, Co-Executive Director of Radio Bilingüe (Fresno & Oakland, California); Vijay Singh, CEO of Vermont Public (Colchester, VT); and Kenya Young, President and CEO of Louisville Public Media (Louisville, KY).

Established in November 2025 through one of the final grants distributed by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), PMI is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to helping meet the infrastructure needs of all public media stations in this new and unprecedented era. Founded by American Public Media Group, PRX, New York Public Radio, Station Resource Group, and the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, PMI’s mandate is to strengthen and sustain the essential public services local stations provide to their communities by modernizing and providing shared technology, distribution platforms, and data analytics systems powering the U.S. public radio network.

PMI exists to ensure every station—large and small, urban and rural—can reliably and efficiently deliver content, reach audiences on every platform, and thrive in a rapidly changing media environment. By collaborating with local stations, independent producers, and national organizations, PMI stewards the digital and operational bedrock that supports public media’s mission: to inform, inspire, and serve in the public interest.

PMI is currently led by Interim Executive Director Bob Kempf. In addition to the five board members announced today, who will be seated at PMI’s April board meeting, additional members will be seated later this year.

“Our board strives to reflect the full breadth of who public media actually is—across station formats and in every type of community across the nation, large and small, rural and urban, legacy and emerging,” said A. Rima Dael, CEO of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and Founding PMI Board Member. “These leaders bring deep, lived experience from stations serving communities every day, and a clear understanding of both the fragility and the power of public media infrastructure. That range of perspective is exactly what PMI was created to hold and to protect.”

“I’m grateful to CPB for the vision and foresight to invest in this station-centered consortium, as we work to imagine the future of our system, and put muscle into the project of building it,” said LaFontaine Oliver, Executive Chair of New York Public Radio and Board Chair of PMI. “The tie that binds this country’s incredible tapestry of public radio stations is our commitment to public service—through the vital news, information, education, arts, culture, and connection we provide our communities every day. I’m honored that my fellow founding partners have entrusted me to help lay PMI’s foundations as Chair of the Board, and energized to be stepping into this new role.”