Jacquie Jones

e-mail: jacquie-at-nbpc.tv

Jacquie Jones is the Executive Director of the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), a 30-year-old media arts organization that funds, distributes and produces public interest media for all platforms. Since taking over leadership of NBPC, Jacquie has established herself as a leader in the evolving next-media landscape through innovative partnerships and initiatives such as the Katrina Project in 2005, the ground-breaking New Media Institute, which she founded in 2006, and the portal www.blackpublicmedia.org.

Currently she is piloting the Public Media Corps, a collaborative engagement framework that includes public media stations, producers, schools, libraries and a variety of community-serving institutions as partners. Jacquie is also a Peabody Award-winning producer and director of documentary films.

She has a BA in English from Howard University and an MA from Stanford University’s documentary filmmaking program. She has been a Revson Fellow at Columbia University and is currently a scholar-in-residence at American University in Washington, DC. In addition to her service on the iMA board, she serves on the board of directors of Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media and many other advisory committees focused on the intersection of media and the public interest.

Leslie Fields-Cruz

e-mail: leslie-at-nbpc.tv

Leslie Fields-Cruz coordinates and directs NBPC’s development fund programs and supervises the acquisition, distribution and delivery of programs to the public television system.

She has spent over ten years in the non-profit arts field, working primarily in independent media and youth theater. Leslie is a graduate of the New York Arts & Business Council’s Arts Leadership Institute and holds an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University.

Kay Shaw

e-mail: kay-at-nbpc.tv

Kay Shaw comes to NBPC having served as Director of Communications for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) where she was responsible for launching the organization’s website; coordinating the branding initiative; overseeing all external communications, including media, publications and production issue and event videos; and developing its in-house production facilities.

Prior to joining the staff of LDF in 2000, throughout the 80’s, Ms. Shaw worked for several nonprofit organizations as a community organizer and media consultant. Her community organizing skills were honed at SANE/Freeze where over 6 years she was responsible for outreach, education and training, and media relations within African-American, Latino and Native American communities as the Third World Liaison.

In the 90’s, she transferred her community organizing and media relations skills into a successful career promoting and distributing black independent films for broadcast and theatrical release, including the Sundance award-winning PBS films “Finding Christa” and “Black Press Soldiers without Swords,” and Marlon Riggs’ last documentary “Black Is…Black Ain’t.” She currently manages the Public Media Corps.

Nonso Christian Ugbode

e-mail: christian-at-nbpc.tv

Nonso Christian Ugbode is a writer, producer and web/media conceptualist. He works as the director of digital media for the National Black Programming Consortium in Harlem, NY where he oversees content and style for NBPC’s BlackPublicMedia.org website.

He also manages in-house production of content and e-advocacy for NBPC. As a producer and filmmaker his recent works include Colored Frames a film about black painters, currently in distribution by American Public Television and Microcinema.com. He is also co-executive editor at Blackline.tv, a satirical socio-political commentary project. He received his BFA in Film & Television Production at New York University.

Diane Carr-Joseph

e-mail: diane-at-nbpc.tv

Diane Carr-Joseph serves as the Business Manager for National Black Programming Consortium. She is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the organization including human resources, financial forecasting, resource allocation, fund management, accounting and control. Diane holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting from Baruch College New York.

Hena Ashraf

e-mail: hena-at-nbpc.tv

Hena Ashraf likes to create things with cameras and stories, and has been making films since her teenage years. She currently lives in the land of Brooklyn, after stints at the University of Michigan and London’s East End. Hena tends to disappear into her headphones, and also writes and photographs.

NBPC Board

Marita Rivero
Vice President & General Manager for Radio & Television WGBH, Board Chair

Patrick Antoine
Associate Partner Strategy & Change Internal Practice (SCIP), Treasurer

Lorine Pendleton Esq.
Director of Business Development, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP., Secretary

Valarie Mitchell Johnston
Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs, HIT Entertainment, Member

Curtis Jewell
President/CEO, EXCEL Management Systems, Inc., Member

DeAnn Hamilton
General Manager, Michigan State University, WKAR-AM/FM/TV, Member

Garlin Gilchrist II
National Campaign Director, MoveOn.org, Member

Quincy B. Troupe
Director, Mars Chocolate Innovation & Operating Systems, Member

Lourdes Liz
Vice President of Programs Strategies, Style Network, Member

Eric Easter
Vice President of Digital & Entertainment Johnson Publishing, Member