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ABOUT NBPC

The National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) was founded in 1979 and is dedicated to the developing black digital authorship and distributing unique stories of the black experience in the new media age. Since 1991 NBPC has invested $7 million dollars in iconic documentary productions for public television; trained, mentored and supported a diverse array of producers who create content about contemporary black experiences; and emerged as a leader in the evolving next-media landscape through it's annual New Media Institute: Africa Programs. NBPC also distrubutes engaging content online.

NBPC STAFF

Jacquie Jones
Executive Director
jacquie-at-nbpc.tv
Jacquie Jones is the Executive Director of the National Black Programming Consortium, 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 its current evolution into the Public Media Corps (http://publicmediacorps.org).

Leslie Fields-Cruz
VP Operations & Director of Programming
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
Director, Public Media Corps
kay-at-nbpc.tv
Kay Shaw comes to NBPC having served as Director of Communications for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where she launched the organization’s website, coordinated its branding initiative, oversaw production all of the organization’s issue and event videos, and developed its in-house production facilities.

Nonso Christian Ugbode
Director of Digital Media
christian-at-nbpc.tv
Nonso Christian Ugbode is a writer, producer and web/media conceptualist. He oversees content and style for NBPC's BlackPublicMedia.Org website.

Thabi Moyo
Associate Director, Public Media Corps
thabi-at-nbpc.tv
Thabi Moyo is an eclectic soul, and artist at heart. She is an advocate for diversity and can often be found in discourse or micro-blogging about the issue. She comes from a background in film production, event coordination and cultural arts management and programming. She is a native of Jackson, Mississippi and holds a Bachelor's of Arts in film with a minor concentration in education from Howard University.

Anais Kane
Office Assistant
anais-at-nbpc.tv
Anaïs Aïda Kane is an artist and Recorded Music student at the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at NYU. She began working for the National Black Programming Consortium in Harlem, NY as an intern, and now office assistant. She provides administrative support to the programming department and the Public Media Corps. Her duties include general clerical work, filing, maintenance of office filing & production equipment storage systems, and other project-to-project research. She performs direct mail campaigns, proofreading and editing, and management of documents systems for electronic and paper archiving.

Brendan "Indy" Foley
Technology Program Manager, Public Media Corps
brendan-at-publicmediacorps.org
Brendan "Indy" Foley is NBPC's resident Ubuntu genius. He helps coordinate technology for the NBPC Public Media Corps initiative, and works with PMC fellows to achieve the ultimate usage of NBPC provided tools, and free and open-source digital tools available. He has a fondness for audio engineering, and building computers from parts.