Welcome to the New York Public Radio Community Advisory Board!
We are a volunteer-powered independent body of radio lovers supporting the future of public radio in New York.
Our mission: we connect communities to content, listen to those who listen, and advise NYPR on what the listenership is thinking and feeling.
Our goal: to improve the listener experience, and to ensure that station content and strategy are meeting the specialized educational, coverage, and cultural needs of the communities it serves.
Our reach is vast: covering a listening area stretching from the Hudson Valley to Delaware Bay, inclusive of all Five Boroughs, much of Long Island, Rockland & Westchester Counties, and the entire state of New Jersey.
We serve all of New York Public Radio: our remit encompasses all areas of station programming and content, including WNYC, WQXR, NJPR, Gothamist, WNYC Studios, and the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space.
The CAB, as mandated by federal law, exists to provide specific value-added feedback to senior leadership and the NYPR Board of Trustees. We facilitate public fora with the listening public six times per fiscal year, and convey our findings and recommendations to the Board of Trustees. We further our mission by partnering with the station in all areas of community outreach and engagement. We are both a proxy for the listenership, and a conduit to the listening area as a whole.
We are listener volunteers serving for terms of up to six years, representing a diverse group of lifestyles, demographics, communities, boroughs, backgrounds, ages, affinities, and professions. We are equal parts ambassadors, advisors, and strategic partners for the station.
The CAB deliberates independently of station management and New York Public Radio’s Board of Trustees, determining its own agenda, recruiting its own members, and electing its own leadership. Our role is strictly advisory. As such, we are not authorized to exercise any control over WNYC and WQXR’s daily management or operations.
The CAB, as required by federal law, reviews the programming goals established by the station, the service provided by WNYC and WQXR, and the significant policy decisions rendered by the station, and assesses whether the programming and other policies of the station are meeting the specialized educational and cultural needs of the communities served by the station. The CAB deliberates independently of station management and New York Public Radio’s Board of Trustees, determining its own agenda and electing its own leadership. The CAB is an advisory body only, and is not authorized to exercise any control over WNYC and WQXR’s daily management or operations. The CAB conveys its findings and recommendations based on public input to the Board of Trustees.
CAB FY27 Calendar (July 2026 – June 2027)
Check back soon for CAB’s FY27 public forum meetings. CAB public forum meetings are conducted virtually beginning at 6:30 p.m. Please visit the CAB Facebook page for more information. You must register to receive access details.
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The CAB (as of July 2026)
Officers:
Caroline C. Pasion, Chair, appointed June 2021
Dustin Joyce, Vice Chair at Large, appointed June 2024
Andy Blancero, Co-Vice Chair, appointed June 2024
Catherine Clouthier, Co-Vice Chair, appointed June 2025
David Freeman, Co-Vice Chair, appointed June 2025
Patrick Masseo, Co-Vice Chair, appointed June 2024
Heather Quinlan, Co-Vice Chair, appointed June 2024
Chloe Snyder, Co-Vice Chair, appointed June 2024
Anita Laremont, NYPR Board of Trustees’ CAB Liaison
Members:
Monique Aiken, appointed June 2024
Belén Aranda-Alvarado, appointed May 2026
Allie Brashears, appointed May 2026
John-Morgan Bush, appointed May 2026
Maribel Espinosa Hernandez, appointed June 2025
Kevin Farrell, appointed May 2026
Ana Garcia, appointed June 2025
Maria Giambanco, appointed June 2025
Amy Gotzler, appointed June 2022
Caitlin Graham, appointed June 2025
Amenan Kouadio, appointed May 2026
Eric Narburgh, appointed May 2026
Isha Rana, appointed May 2026
Miles Siegel, appointed June 2024
Azure Thompson, appointed June 2022
Lee von Kraus, appointed June 2025
Cameron Wright, appointed May 2026