FCC Announces Members Of Diversity Committee

Sherman Kizart

The FCC rechartered its Federal Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age in DECEMBER, and it announced the members of the committee TODAY (3/11).   The committee, the first meeting of which is scheduled for APRIL 25th, is chaired by former FCC Commissioner HENRY RIVERA, now with the EMMA BOWEN FOUNDATION FOR MINORITY INTERESTS IN MEDIA.  The FCC's BARBARA KREISMAN is serving as Designated Federal Officer, with CAROLYN FLEMING WILLIAMS and NICOLE MCGINNIS as Designated Deputy Federal Officers.

Members include AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA's JOAQUIN ALVARADO; MOBITV's PHILIP ALVELDA; the BROADBAND OPPORTUNITIES COALITION's KARLA BALLARD; 21ST CENTURY TELECOM's WILLIAM BRANHAM;
WOMEN IN CABLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS' MARIA BRENNAN; COMCAST-NBC's RUDY BRIOCHE; MEGREE's ERIC BROYLES; WILCO ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, INC.'s BRIDGETTE DANIEL; the NAB's ERIN DOZIER; VERIZON's DONNA EPPS; and INVISION TV's DERRICK FROST.

Also OPPORTUNITY CAPITAL PARTNERS' ANITA STEPHENS GRAHAM; the NATIONAL HISPANIC MEDIA COALITION's JESSICA GONZALES; CBS' ANTON GUITANO; the NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE's CHANELLE HARDY; THE IT ARCHITECT's CHARLES HARRELL; the MMTC's DAVID HONIG; the JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES' JOHN HORRIGAN; SOLUTIONS4CHANGE's RON JOHNSON; KIZART MEDIA PARTNERS' SHERMAN KIZART; COMMUNICATION SERVICES FOR THE DEAF's FAYE KUO; ASIAN AMERICAN JUSTICE CENTER's JASON LAGRIA; the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MULTI-ETHNICITY IN COMMUNICATIONS' NICOL TURNER-LEE; the LATINOS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION's JOSE MARQUEZ; and AT&T's CELIA NOGALES.

And the UNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's JAVIER PALOMAREZ; PATRICK COMMUNICATIONS' SUSAN PATRICK;  the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS OFFICERS AND ADVISORS' TONY PEREZ; THE ROBERTS COMPANIES' STEVE ROBERTS; FREE PRESS'  ANDREW JAY SCHWARTZMAN; SHOOTING STAR BROADCASTING's DIANE SUTTER; ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN IN MEDIA's SYLVIA STROBEL; RUTGERS UNIVERSITY's DR. JORGE SCHEMENT; GANNETT CO.'s VIRGIL SMITH; ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's DR. CINDY SHAO; NATIVE PUBLIC MEDIA's LORIS ANN TAYLOR; FREE PRESS' JOSEPH TORRES; ENTRAVISION's WALTER ULLOA; CIPHER COMMUNICATIONS' MARK WALLACE; and NABOB's JIM WINSTON.

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