National Advisory Board of the Institute for Rural Journalism & Community Issues

Organizational affiliations of non-academic members are listed only for identification purposes.

NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Jennifer P. Brown, former editor, Kentucky New Era, Hopkinsville; co-chair for progamming
Dr. Nancy L. Green, Richmond, Ind., former newspaper executive; co-chair for development
Constance Alexander, independent writer and playwright, Murray, Ky.
Tom Bethell, independent journalist, Editorial Services, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Terry Birdwhistell, former dean, University of Kentucky Libraries
Bill Bishop, founding co-publisher, Daily Yonder; author, The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
James Branscome, retired Standard & Poor's equity research managing director, McGraw-Hill Cos.
Dr. Alice Brown, Burlington, N.C., president emeritus, Appalachian College Association
Marie Cirillo, founder, Clearfork Community Collaborative, Eagan, Tenn.
Jim Clinton, CEO, Cenla Advantage Partnership, Alexandria, La.; former president, Southern Growth Policies Bd.
Dee Davis, president, Center for Rural Strategies, Whitesburg, Ky.
Robert M. 'Mike' Duncan, president, Inez (Ky.) Deposit Bank; member and former chair, Republican National Committee; former chair, Tennessee Valley Authority
Tom Eblen, retired managing editor and columnist, Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader
Dr. Ron Eller, retired University of Kentucky historian and author, Uneven Ground: Appaalchia Since 1945; former director, UK Appalachian Center; co-principal investigator on initiative to create the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues
Ben Gish, editor, The Mountain Eagle, Whitesburg, Ky.
William Greider, national affairs correspondent, The Nation; author, Who Will Tell the People? and The Education of David Stockman and other books
Dr. Elizabeth Hansen, Lexington, Ky., IRJCI Steering Committee chair; retired Foundation Professor of Journalism, Eastern Kentucky University
Bob Hendrickson , former publisher, Ledger-Independent, Maysville, Ky.
Peter Hille, executive diredctor, Mountain Association for Community Economic Development, Berea, Ky.
Alex Jones, retired director, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Beverly Kirk, International Security Program outreach director and Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative director, Center for Strategic and International Studies; former anchor, News Channel 8 (WJLA-TV); Washington, D.C.
Hilda Gay Legg, USDA Rural Development Kentucky director; former Rural Utilities Service administrator and Appalachian Regional Commission alternate co-chair
William Leonard, founding dean, Wake Forest University. Divinity School, Winston-Salem, N.C.
Alan Lowe, director, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Ill.
Homer F. Marcum, Kingsport, Tenn., former publisher, The Martin Countian, Inez, Ky.
Lois Mateus, past chair; partner in redevelopment of East Market Street in Louisville; contributor to The Harrodsburg Herald; former Brown-Forman Corp. executive
Judy J. Owens, Appalachian director, Steele-Reese Foundation, Lexington, Ky.
O. Leonard Press, founding director, Kentucky Educational Television, Lexington
Rita Ray, former executive director, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Charleston
John Rosenberg, founding director, Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky, Prestonsburg, Ky.
Jamie Ross, producer and co-writer, James Agee Film Project, Charlottesville, Va.
Renee Shaw, producer, Kentucky Educational Television, Lexington
Robert Slaton, past chair, Georgetown, Ky; consultant and former Kentucky commissioner of public health
Howard 'Ed' Staats, former Kentucky bureau chief, The Associated Press, Louisville
Al Smith, chair emeritus, Lexington, Ky.; former host of "Comment on Kentucky;" former owner and editor of Kentucky and Tennessee newspapers; former Appalachian Regional Commission federal co-chair
Robert Turner , Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Tennessee
Tim Waltner, publisher, Freeman Courier, Freeman, S.D.
Paul Wesslund, fomer vice president for communications, Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives
Jesse White, former federal co-chair, Appalachian Regional Commission
Jill Wilson, former president, West Virginia Humanities Council, Cottageville, W. Va.