WKAR Public Media’s Julie Sochay, senior director of content and communication, is one of thirty-two public media leaders to graduate from the Public Media Diversity Leaders Initiative (PMDLI).
East Lansing, MI; Feb. 10, 2022 – The senior director of content and communication of WKAR Public Media at Michigan State University will be a part of a national class designed to explore opportunities and challenges related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the public media sector.
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Participants in the Public Media Diversity Leaders Initiative greet each other. Photo courtesy of The Riley Institute at Furman University.
As public media leaders nationwide navigate how to best foster diversity and equity in their workplaces and communities, new Arizona PBS general manager Adrienne Fairwell is among the first group to participate in a program exploring opportunities and challenges related to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Today, 31 public media professionals from across the country were part of the inaugural class to graduate from the Public Media Diversity Leaders Initiative (PMDLI), a program of the Riley Institute® at Furman University offered in partnership with South Carolina ETV and modeled after the Institute’s award-winning South Carolina Diversity Leaders Initiative.
Gilda Cobb-Hunter is a native of Gifford, F.L., attending Florida A&M University for a bachelor’s in African-American History and Florida State University for a master’s in American History. She received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from the Medical University of South Carolina, the College of Charleston, and Francis Marion University. She received the David Wilkins Legislative Leadership Award from the Riley Institute at Furman University.
She became the first African American woman in Orangeburg County elected to be a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives. Cobb-Hunter went on to be the first freshman appointed to and is the ranking member, 1st Vice Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee. She also is a member of the Joint Bond Review Committee.