Our total audience averages 28M people weekly
We host 260+ events per year with 54K attendees
We engage 750 community partners and have 182K members
The Enduring Power of Stories
GBH’s role as a trusted provider of journalism couldn’t be more important than at this moment. We empower our community members to think, question, wonder, and grow in ways that only public media can do. No matter the platform or subject, GBH tells stories that matter to our audiences, and helps make the world a better place.
Telling stories is how people connect with one another, a truth unchanged for centuries, yet radically transformed in the digital age. Every day, we are surrounded by stories, some shared for generations, others revealed for the first time.
At GBH, our mission is to tell stories that matter, whether in the form of documentaries, news stories, children’s content, or dramatic period pieces to help audiences take a breather from the complexity of our day-to-day lives. Our storytelling inspires, educates, and connects people to ideas and one another, helping us feel less alone in a divided world. For nearly 75 years, that mission has remained constant.
At a time when facts are questioned and news deserts are springing up across the country, we endeavor to build a more informed citizenry with a broader understanding of our world. Our tools to achieve this are trusted journalism, revelatory storytelling — and you, our community.
The media industry is rapidly evolving, and a blizzard of information — much of it nakedly partisan and filled with mis- and dis-information — confronts each of us every day. But GBH remains focused on telling stories in ways both responsible and engaging, on platforms both traditional and cutting-edge. And we give our community a platform to share their experiences. We reach just about everyone: on average, our PBS audiences are evenly represented across the political spectrum.
Stories make information more memorable and impactful. Stories help us learn from past history and help define our current society. Telling stories helps build community resilience, strengthens our connection with those around us, creates empathy and common ground, and reflects our values. Simply put, stories can change the world.
GBH tells local stories about Boston, our region, and our state. We tell national and international stories, scripted and real, via our PBS national productions and local news programs. We present live stories on stage with Stories from the Stage, poetry at Outspoken Saturdays at our GBH BPL Studio, and storytelling through our GBH Music performances and public forums and events.
Our audiences include longtime loyal listeners and viewers, as well as the next generation of information consumers seeking knowledge on the platforms they prefer. For example, millions of people have subscribed to FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel, while others are learning about engineering with NOVA’s interactive games on Twitch, and teachers are cultivating curiosity in classrooms nationwide thanks to tools in our digital PBS LearningMedia collections. And we continue to build a sizable footprint in the audio space with award-winning podcasts.
Thank you for your support in making these programs possible.
Susan Goldberg President & CEO
Ann M. Fudge Chair, Board of Trustees
Elections Coverage
GBH’s trustworthy, award-winning reporting is always a critical public resource but particularly important during an election year. This year, GBH News produced extensive coverage of the local and national elections, ballot explainers, videos presenting arguments for and against each of the Massachusetts ballot questions, and Boston Public Radio hosted on-air debates to ensure that voters were fully informed before casting their votes. Since the 1988 election, FRONTLINE has been producing The Choice, an innovative documentary that tells the backstories of the presidential candidates from childhood to today. The late replacement of the Democratic nominee created an unprecedented challenge for the FRONTLINE team, but they were still able to complete The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump with their production time cut in half. For the first time, they produced another The Choice film, The VP Choice: Vance vs. Walz, to help viewers better understand those vying to be second in command.
Historical context is important to any political discussion. Viewers gained fresh insights about an important executive branch role in AMERICAN EXPERIENCE’s new documentary, The American Vice President. GBH
Watch FRONTLINE’s The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
Connecting the Commonwealth
GBH News, CAI, and New England Public Media (NEPM) launched a vital new partnership to expand news reporting and coverage statewide. Weaving regional and local reporting across all three outlets’ digital and broadcast platforms, this initiative builds on the existing relationships between these three organizations, as well as connections to the GBH News bureaus in Worcester, at the State House, and in Boston. One example of this expanded relationship was the GBH News broadcast of the Massachusetts U.S. Senate debate presented in collaboration with NEPM News. Audiences from across Massachusetts benefit from expanded coverage of everything from breaking local news to in-depth human interest stories and improved access to the stories that matter, including the environment, education, and the economy.
Watch the GBH/NEPM Massachusetts U.S. Senate Debate
Engaging Younger Voters
As part of a continuing effort to provide a platform for underrepresented voices, GBH News premiered a new digital-first video series where Gen Z voters could discuss the issues that matter to them most.
The initiative is led by GBH’s first Statewide and Features Editor, Jennifer Moore.
” Through our relationships with NEPM and CAI, we’re partnering to create content of interest to all of the state’s 7 million residents, something few media outlets in Massachusetts can do.”
— Dan Lothian, Editor-in-Chief of GBH News and The World
On
Watch the Politics IRL series
Right: GBH News’ Equity and Justice unit includes reporters Trajan Warren, Meghan Smith, Magdiela Matta, and Paul Singer
Below: Paul Watanabe shares his story at from the Stage
Reckoning + Repair
GBH introduced an expansive initiative, Reckoning + Repair, investigating the local and national discussions about slavery reparations and racial inequity. GBH WORLD’s docuThe Cost of Inheritance: An America ReFramed Special examined the scope and rationale for reparations. GBH News’ podcast “ What Is Owed?” revealed Boston’s historic role in the national reparations debate. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE offered historical context with The Riot Report, the story of a federal commission’s investigation into violence in Black neighborhoods in 1967.
The community engaged in the initiative through Stories from the Stage: Reckoning and Repair and GBH News’ Enslavement History of the Freedom Trail walking tour
In October, GBH News launched the Equity and Justice reporting unit, a team of journalists developing multiplatform regional and national stories that explore and expose injustice at all levels of society in Greater Boston and beyond.
A Walk Down the Block
Created and hosted by Paris Alston, this GBH News original, award-winning multi-platform series gets to the heart of underreported stories in the Boston area. This year, the program connected citizens with the changemakers in their neighborhoods, examining topics such as reimagining the Charles River Esplanade for better accessibility, community events in Roxbury’s Nubian Square, LGBTQ+ Pride past and present in Boston’s South End, and the closure of Lowell’s innovative Mill No. 5.
Fixing the T
The MBTA is the oldest public transit system in the nation, and it faces significant maintenance and safety concerns. GBH News’ expansive reporting on Boston’s transportation system included coverage of a derailment on the Green Line extension, the state’s Transportation Funding Task Force, the ending of the speed restrictions, and the MBTA Communities Act. In April, GBH News hosted a public forum with MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng, State Secretary of Transportation Monica Tibbits-Nutt, and Jarred Johnson of Watch
GBH News’ “Never Cried”: Boston’s Busing Legacy
Boston Busing at 50
2024 marked the 50th anniversary of the Boston busing ruling forced the city of Boston to bus students between neighborhoods as a measure against segregation. GBH turned its attention to the legacy of this fraught history with several programs.
The Busing Battleground reminded people of the chaos and racial unrest of the time. GBH Never Cried”: Boston’s chronicling the personal accounts of two sisters, speaking publicly for the first time, who were bused from their predominantly Black neighborhood of Roxbury to White, working-class South Boston in 1974.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE and StoryCorps Studios partPain and Promise: Remembering the Fight for School Integration to capture and archive more stories about experiences with desegregation. With the Boston Desegregation and Busing Initiative, GBH News created a walking map of historic busing crisis locations in the city.
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Watch NOVA’s 50th Anniversary video
Celebrating NOVA’s 50th
From its first episode on March 3, 1974, NOVA has informed, educated, and inspired, telling science stories that matter. The team brings viewers deep inside the ages’ greatest scientific discoveries and advances, with more than 900 NOVA episodes over 50 years. To celebrate their golden anniversary, NOVA produced a cross-platform digital video series on major discoveries in the past 50 years. They built and broadcast a multiday live escape room event, Y3K: Countdown to Shutdown, that streamed on Twitch and YouTube; opened an online NOVA shop; and introduced a series of NOVA Science Trivia Nights at the GBH Boston Public Library Studio. They continued to produce the captivating programs that viewers expect, covering topics from the evolution of whales to the engineering behind the Eiffel Tower to the quest to recover the oldest recorded DNA.
A.I., the Solar System, and More
Watch NOVA’s Decoding the Universe: Quantum
As the most popular U.S. primetime science series on television, NOVA demystifies the scientific and technological concepts that shape and define our lives, our planet, and our universe. One of its greatest assets is the breadth of topics it tackles, answering the big questions of today and tomorrow. NOVA produced groundbreaking stories in 2024 that captivated viewers. A.I. Revolution explored how researchers are looking to artificial intelligence for solutions in fields from medicine to climate change. Decoding the Universe tackled both the tiniest scale of subatomic particles in Quantum and the largest of scales in Cosmos The five-part series Solar System presented spectacular revelations about our celestial neighborhood.
Watch a trailer for SEA CHANGE: The Gulf of Maine, a NOVA Special Presentation
NOVA Explores the Gulf of Maine
Experiencing the Eclipse
A total solar eclipse crossed North America in April 2024, with at least the partial eclipse visible in all 48 contiguous U.S. states. NOVA saw an opportunity to engage audiences in the science behind this extraordinary national moment and to educate viewers about how to safely experience the event. Great American Eclipse was released days before this spectacular cosmic phenomenon. NOVA also produced its most viewed YouTube livestream event ever, a conversation with NASA scientists on-site in the path of totality, and distributed 24,000 free eclipse glasses and tional materials to over 200 schools and community organizations across the country.
Watch a trailer for Great American Eclipse
The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 97% of the global ocean and is a microcosm for what’s happening to sea life, fisheries, and jobs worldwide. The three-part documentary SEA CHANGE: The Gulf of Maine, a NOVA Special Presentation shared the story of this body of water, its history, and what scientists believe the future may hold. In keeping with efforts to diversify storytelling and to provide a platform for other voices, NOVA and Vision Maker Media also collaborated with Indigenous filmmakers to produce a six-part short-form digital series, Legacy of the Land, focused on climate issues and solutions in Native communities across the country.
CHILDREN’S AND YOUTH MEDIA AND EDUCATION
New Season of High School Quiz Show
The award-winning academic High School returned for its 15th season. This program is an important community engagement opportunity for GBH. Through its fifteen-year history, 83 schools have participated with more than 6,000 students attending Super Sunday qualifying events. This year, the program welcomed a new host, Joe Hanson, the creator, host, and head writer of the YouTube science education series from PBS Digital Studios, Be Smart.
Expanding Partnerships with the Community
Atrusted leader in children’s media for more than 50 years, GBH Kids produces stories that help children feel empowered and seen while also encouraging a culture of lifelong learning. From ZOOM to Arthur to Molly of Denali, GBH has prioritized the creation of smart, engaging programs that meet kids where they are. This year, GBH celebrated expanded partnerships, including becoming official media partners with Boston Children’s Museum. This next step in a long-standing relationship provides the opportunity to highlight GBH Kids and GBH Education content with museum visitors through programming, events, and shared social media promotion.
Watch a video promo for Season Four of Molly of Denali
Fans cheered on High School Quiz Show contestants in Season 15
Above: Molly and Tooey in a Season Four episode of Molly of Denali, “Dogsled Delivery Story”
Kids introduced the “Work It Out Wombats! Podcast”
“Work It Out Wombats! Podcast”
GBH launched the first season of the “ Work It Out Wombats! Podcast.” Geared toward children ages 3–6 and their caregivers, the podcast encourages listeners to become official Wombuddies, joining Wombats Malik, Zadie, and Zeke on a series of playdates around the Treeborhood community. From planning a surprise party to taking an imaginary rocket ship ride to having a spooky campout, the wombats encourage their listeners to sing, dance, play, and have fun. Fans of the program can also download the Work It Out Wombats! Family App to watch animated stories and songs, make music videos, and get ideas for new hands-on activities.
Arthur Meets
Civics Collection Launched
GBH Education launched a new Civics Collection on PBS LearningMedia, designed to engage young people in the importance and role of civics in the United States. The education department collaborated with an Educator Advisory Group, Youth Advisory Group, and a multidisciplinary Civics Leadership Council in developing this innovative program. The Collection supports students in acquiring civic knowledge and understanding through applied historical and present-day examples and encourages engagement and participation in civic affairs. In addition to lessons based on GBH brands, it includes a youth-friendly video series and interactive resources presenting multiple perspectives and diverse viewpoints.
Mychal the Librarian
Mychal Threets is a librarian who uses social media to share the importance of libraries in communities and to talk about mental health. Through his online platform, he explains the pivotal role libraries played for him growing up and the value they have in helping people find services and solace. Threets and GBH collaborated to spread the joy of libraries in a new digital short with Arthur for National Library Day in April.
Watch Arthur Meets Mychal the Librarian
number of views on social media of the Arthur Meets Mychal the Librarian video 2M
Pinkalicious & Peterrific Special Is a Big Hit
“A Pinkerton Family Vacation” became Pinkalicious & Peterrific’s most successful special. In this episode, the Pinkertons took a family road trip to see all of the Pink Wonders of the World including Blushing Gate Bridge (Golden Gate Bridge), Pink Canyon (Grand
number of streams of Pinkalicious & Peterrific’s ”A Pinkerton Family Vacation” 3.3M
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HISTORY, ARTS, AND CULTURE
The Culture Show Celebrates Its First Birthday
The Culture Show, the daily program hosted by GBH Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen, celebrated its first birthday. Bowen is frequently joined by co-hosts Callie Crossley, Edgar B. Herwick III, and James Bennett II. In 2024, guests included Audra McDonald; Leslie Odom, Jr.; Renée Fleming; Ken and Sarah Burns; and Andre Dubus III; and featured topics about the stage, screen, exhibits, books, and current
Watch a trailer for Season Four of All Creatures Great and Small
MASTERPIECE Dramas, New and Returning
MASTERPIECE has been bringing the best of scripted dramas, both contemporary and period, to millions of fans each year for over 50 years. This year, All Creatures Great & Small continued to be extraordinarily popular. Nolly was nominated for three BAFTA Awards, including Leading Actress for Helena Bonham Carter, Original Music, and Production Design. MASTERPIECE fans welcomed back several new Mystery! series, all hosted by Alan Cumming, with favorite characters returning in Moonflower Murders, Grantchester, Miss Scarlet, and Van der Valk.
host Jared Bowen with Broadway legend Kristin Chenoweth
Treasure Hunting with ANTIQUES ROADSHOW
From family heirlooms to flea market finds to items stored in attics, the ROADSHOW team helps reveal the fascinating stories behind America’s hidden treasures. The 2024 season took viewers to Alaska Native Heritage Center, Old Sturbridge Village (Mass.), Louisiana State University Rural Life Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, and Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens (Ohio), and also offered fan-favorite “Vintage” update shows and specials that included a tribute to Native American heritage and the third installment of “Extraordinary Finds.” PriceRange, a new daily online game launched in December, allowing viewers the chance to try their hand at appraisals. This highly successful series reaches more than 5 million loyal weekly viewers on TV, streaming, online, and social
The Story Behind the Story
As television’s mostwatched history series, GBH-produced AMERICAN EXPERIENCE is dedicated to telling powerful stories with strong protagonists whose experiences help inform who, how, and why America is the country it is today. In Poisoned Ground, viewers learned about housewives who fought for the remediation of the chemical pollution at Love Canal. The Riot Report exposed information about a commission appointed by President Johnson to reveal the causes of unrest in Black neighborhoods in 1967 and its report which remained unreleased. Nazi Town, USA presented the story of the German American Bund, a proNazi group in the United States in the 1930s. American Coup: Wilmington 1898 explored a deadly North Carolina race massacre and the country’s only successful coup d’état. Fly with Me presented the pioneering flight attendants who were on the frontlines of the battle for gender equality in the workplace. The “AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Presents” podcast launched, offering a fresh take for audiences on the iconic stories presented in the documentaries.
Local Lens
Demonstrating a commitment to local filmmaking and stories, GBH launched the Local Lens series. On Thursday nights beginning in the Fall of 2024, GBH 2 broadcast films by local filmmakers or with a local angle. Diverse topics included two boys driving a pony cart from Needham to Montreal for the 1967 World’s Fair, a former Soviet prima ballerina training students at Boston Ballet, rising waters putting Boston’s Seaport District at risk, and New England’s supernatural and unexplained mysteries. Watch a trailer for the Local Lens series
Fly with Me
American Heritage
Celebrating Books
Books are an integral platform for storytelling. Beyond the Page, GBH’s series of virtual events that allow readers to be part of an intimate conversation with their favorite authors, featured bestselling author Kristin Hannah who spoke about her latest novel The Women. The literary lineup also included master of suspense, Dean Koontz; Elin Hilderbrand, the author of the hit Nantucket
Kitchen Comfort from GBH
Food tells stories from around the globe. Lidia Bastianich, one of public television’s best-loved chefs, hosted popular offerings this year including the 12th season of Lidia’s Kitchen for which GBH was the presenting station and the GBH co-produced special Lidia Celebrates America: Changemakers which recognized the people who are trying to change the way food is grown and prepared. Season Two of The Life of Loi: Mediterranean Secrets once again brought viewers into the world of Greek cooking with Chef Maria Loi. The cooking and entertainment show, HOMEMADE LIVE!, hosted by Chef Joel Gamoran, entered its second season, while perennial favorite Weekends with Yankee presented Season Eight.
Live from the GBH Boston Public
Some of the best stories come from members of our community. The GBH Boston Public Library Studio offers a unique opportunity to experience in-person conversations with the mayor, the governor, and attorney general; live jazz concerts; spoken word poetry events; and Boston Public Radio’s Jim Braude and Margery Eagan recorded live in front of studio audiences. On Fridays, this was followed by a one-hour live broadcast Once a month, spoken word artist and educator Amanda Shea presented a poetry/spoken word event for emerging artists, and NOVA hosted monthly Science Trivia Nights. A new series GBH Amplifies, began its live tapings, encouraging community conversations that promote local voices.
Jim Braude and Margery Eagan broadcast live from GBH Boston Public LIbrary Studio three days a week
Watch a trailer for Lidia Celebrates America: Changemakers
”I am extremely proud that GBH is rightly acknowledged throughout the country as the producer of shows in the arts, social sciences, and sciences. You are the concept of what public broadcasting is supposed to be in its finest form.”
— Susan L.
GBH Music Presents…
GBH Music told stories through the universal language of music, through concert broadcasts, live performances, and curated listening experiences. The Ulysses Quartet began its second year as Quartet in Residence, allowing GBH Music to make live music accessible to diverse audiences with free concerts at public schools and the GBH Boston Public Library Studio. GBH Music collaborated with Boston Lyric Opera and New England Conservatory to offer a new online video series, “Getting into Opera,” filmed in front of live studio audiences, and hosted the annual GBH Music Holiday Spectacular Celebrating the American artform of jazz, GBH Music introduced new monthly GBH Jazz Nights at the GBH Boston Public Library Studio, expanded GBH Music’s Jazz on 89.7 with overnight broadcast hours on weekends, and produced four live JazzNOW events in partnership with JazzBoston. CRB Classical 99.5 broadcast live weekly performances of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and an ambitious array of performances from Boston Lyric Opera, the Handel and Haydn Society, and the Boston Early Music Festival.
Community Canvas Promotes Local Art
The Culture Show debuted a new initiative this year called Community Canvas Local artists and photographers were invited to submit their art for consideration to be displayed on the GBH Digital Mural. This 30-foot by 45-foot screen soars over the Massachusetts Turnpike at GBH headquarters in Brighton and is seen by thousands of drivers daily. The project garnered nearly 200,000 total impressions on social media channels, with most artists sharing on their own social accounts.
Financials G
BH entered 2024 in a strong financial position. As a leading producer in the public media system reaching millions of people every week across multiple platforms, GBH continually services our community with trusted content.
Credibility, transparency, accessibility, and fairness are at the core of all our work, along with a commitment to engage and reach audiences on topics they care about, wherever they are. By working to continually broaden our perspectives, content, creators, and audiences, we provide inclusive content that reflects the voices that make up our viewers, listeners, and community members. Throughout the year, we launched new multiplatform initiatives; celebrated a major NOVA milestone; expanded community partnerships; and continued the creative and highquality programming for which we are known.
In all four key areas of our work — journalism; science; children’s media and education; and history, arts, and culture — we remained committed to offering programming that informs and inspires audiences.
GBH produces timely and factual journalism through GBH News’ local reporting, The World ’s international coverage, and FRONTLINE’s films that tackle some of the toughest issues of our times. Our new initiative Connecting the Commonwealth broadened our statewide reporting.
In science, GBH’s flagship science program NOVA celebrated its 50th year of trusted reporting, community engagement, and innovative science education. NOVA continued to stretch its boundaries through its documentaries and programming on new platforms.
Parents and educators depended on our programming and free digital resources in children’s media and education to provide high quality curricula, family-friendly podcasts and apps, and opportunities for engagement on and off the screen.
GBH’s history, arts, and culture programming featured MASTERPIECE, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, and The Culture Show, along with expanded programming at the GBH Boston Public Library Studio and the new Community Canvas project, spotlighting local artists on our outdoor digital mural. These offerings entertained and enlightened, while also promoting the arts in Boston and beyond.
As we prepare for 2025, GBH will continue to invest in developing the high-quality programming our audiences — and the many communities we serve — want and need.
The cost to provide trusted local and national programs on multiple platforms continues to increase. While support for GBH remains strong, escalating costs required GBH to reduce operational, editorial and administrative staffing levels and other ongoing expenses. GBH remains committed to producing high-quality programming to serve audiences and generate increased financial support in order to ensure sustainable ongoing operations.
FY24 PROGRAMS BY CATEGORIES
Consolidated Statements of Operating Activities
(Unrestricted Fund) Year Ended June 30, 2024
375,136,000
Leadership
Management
Shane Miner Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer Special Editorial Projects
John Bredar Vice President, National Programming
Vanessa Brown Chief People Officer
Evie Kintzer Vice President, Strategy and Business Development
Cassidy Chief Marketing Officer
James Levy Chief Financial Officer
Susan Rosen Vice President and General Counsel
Daniel Lothian Editor-in-Chief, GBH News and The World
Amy Salt Vice President, Corporate Sponsorship
Ed Wilson Chief Development Officer
Erik Nordin Chief Technology Officer
Yemisi Oloruntola-Coates Chief Inclusion Officer
Seeta Pai Interim Vice President, Children’s Media and Education
Tina
Liz Cheng General Manager for Television
Amy Axelrod Chief of Staff and Senior Director of Board Relations
Board of Trustees
Jeffrey F. Rayport
Alicia Rose
Cynthia L. Strauss
Carmichael S. Roberts
Vincent D. Rougeau
Cyrus Taraporevala
Benjamin A.
Ann R. Klee
Renee Inomata
Rosemarie
Andrea E. Kalyn
William A. Lowell
Elise McDonald
Elizabeth A. Morningstar
Susan X. Luo
Martha L. Minow
Crist A. Myers
Chair
Marcia W. Blenko Vice Chair
Lynn Bay Dayton Vice Chair
Henry P. Becton, Jr.
Stacy L. Cowan
Pam Y. Eddinger
Trustees Emeriti
Richard M. Burnes, Jr.
Chair Emeritus
Amos B. Hostetter, Jr.
Chair Emeritus
Amy Abrams
Enid L. Beal
Derek C. Bok
Frances H. Colburn
Nader F. Darehshori
Laura A. DeBonis
Grace K. Fey
Neal F. Finnegan
Bink Garrison
Gale R. Guild
Ann Gund
M Howard Jacobson
Anna Faith Jones
Susan B. Kaplan
Marjie Kargman
Renée M. Landers
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Laurence Lesser
Richard K. Lubin
Oscar Malcolm
Pamela A. Mason, Ed.D.
Christopher J. McKown
Richard S. Milstein, Esq.
Paul R. Murphy
Lawrence T. Perera
Lia G. Poorvu
Melinda Alliker Rabb
Robert A. Radloff
John F. Reno
Maureen L. Ruettgers
Robert Sachs
Alan J. Strassman
Samuel O. Thier, M.D.
David Ting
Augustus A. White III, M.D., Ph.D.
Hans P. Ziegler
Jonathan C. Abbott
President Emeritus
Board of Advisors
Renee Inomata Chair
Jane Alpers
Maureen Austin
Colin Campbell
Elizabeth Bennett Carroll
Ronald S. Chandler
Cecilia Chao
Jeffrey Cho
Ingrid B. Chung
Tim Cook
Karilyn Crockett
Michael Curry, Esq.
Turahn Dorsey
Nan-Wei Gong
Helen Ho, Ph.D.
Imari Paris Jeffries, Ph.D.
Wayne Johnson
Mabel Jong
Michelle Julet
Hillary Kelly, M.D.
Karen Korn
Elizabeth Lawler
Malia Lazu
Maria Loughlin
Advisors Council
John J. Alam, M.D.
Maureen Alphonse-
Charles
Joseph F. Azrack
Edye C. Baker
Hope Lincoln Baker
Kirstan Barnett
Red Barrett
Aaron M. Bates
Penelope H. Bragonier
Judith A. Brodkin
Laura Cabot Carrigan
Francis E. Chin
Chris Coburn
Philip Condon
Anthony Corey
Stephanie Cornell
Mary L. Cornille
Elizabeth Coxe
Joan Crowley
Martha H.W. Crowninshield
Sally W. Currier
Deborah Dean
Thomas J. DeVesto
Jeffrey S. Dover, M.D.
Christine Dunn
Mike Fanning
Ruth Ellen Fitch
Janet B. Fitzgibbons
Robert Gallery
Miriam Gillitt
Steven J. S. Glick
Arthur Golden
Jonathan B. Green
Stephen A. Greyser
Jon L. Hagler
Daphne Hatsopoulos
Winston Henderson
Catherine E.C. Henn
William C.S. Hicks
Roy A. Hunt III
J. Atwood Ives
Mahmud S. Jafri
W. Garth Janes
Elizabeth B. Johnson
Laura A. Johnson
M.P.H.
Paula A. Johnson M.D.,
Karen Kaufman
Stephen P. Kaufman
Beacon Circle Committee
Kaja K. Fickes
Senior Director
Holly Muson Chair
Jane Alpers
Francis E. Chin
Jeffrey Cho
Ingrid Chung
John J. Doyle, Jr.
Kent Lundberg
Linda H. Lynch
Eugene Mahr
Stacey L. Marino
Travis McCready
Suzanne Nersessian
Charlotte Newman
Nawal Nour
Ellen M. Nussbaum
Gillian O’Callaghan
Katy O’Neil
Heather Parsons
Anthony Pell
Omar H. Khudari
Ranch C. Kimball
Michelle A. Kinch
Sandra T. King
Nancy Klavans
Arthur Krieg
Rebecca A. Lee
Karen S. Levy
Charles L. Longfield
Johanna Longnecker
Anne R. Lovett
Peter S. Lynch
Mahmood Malihi
Rodrigo Martinez
Lisa McDonough
Chester R. Messer II
E. Bradley Meyer
Jennifer L. Miller
Holly Muson
Nicole Obi
Jane E. Owens
Alex Panas
Jane M. Pappalardo
Slocumb Hollis Perry
Deirdre B. Phillips
Lizette Pérez-Deisboeck
Ameek Ponda, J.D., LLM
Sridhar Prasad
Christina Qi
Sandee Ting Simshauser
Elsie M. Taveras, M.D., M.P.H.
Hal Tovin
Sharon M. Walker, Ph.D., J.D.
Pratt Wiley
Frederic Wittmann
Suzanne Wright
George S. Yip
Emily Yu
Myrna Putziger
Roderick K. Randall
Doug Rauch
John R. Regier
Will Richmond
Elizabeth A.W. Rogers
Gloria Rose
Harvey Rosenthal
Roger Sametz
Helen Chin Schlichte
Ann Schwarz
Ralph Sheridan
Geoffrey Stein
Susan P. Stickells
Tanisha M. Sullivan
Jason Talbot
Bina Thompson
Rosamond B. Vaule
Donald R. Ware
David Weisner
Geoffrey Why
Leverett L. Wing
Simone S. Winston
Nicholas T. Zervas, M.D.
Janet B. Fitzgibbons
Wayne Johnson
Edna Kaplan
Henry Kay
Karen Korn
Elizabeth Lawler
Karen S. Levy
William A. Lowell
Kent Lundberg
Oscar F. Malcolm
Stacey L. Marino
Lisa McDonough
Ellen Nussbaum
Monica O’Neil
Heather Parsons
Ameek Ponda
Melinda Alliker Rabb
Elizabeth A.W. Rogers
Gloria Rose
Ralph Sheridan
Cynthia L. Strauss
Bernadine Tsung
Sharon Walker
Ann M. Fudge Ex-Officio
Renee Inomata Ex-Officio
Community Advisory Board
Hugh Barrett
Jim Barrows
Derek Brin
Kevin Carragee
Regine Cazeau-Watson
David Conner
Ashawn Dabney-Small
Shaumba-Yandje Dibinga
Vira Douangmany Cage
Mai Du
Andrew Fisk
Keisha Green
FRONTLINE Council
Amy Abrams
President, Abrams Foundation
Mohamad Ali
IBM Senior Vice President and Head of
IBM Consulting
Lynette Clemetson
Director, Wallace House, Knight-Wallace Fellowships and Livingston Awards
Mark Colodny
Managing Director, Warburg Pincus
Laura DeBonis
Independent Consultant
Jeffrey Hawkins Partner, Bain Capital
Steve Guerriero
Olu Ibrahim
Oscar Lopez
Sakoneseriiosta Maracle
Daliza Nova
Gary Prado
Carrie Lozano President and Chief Operating Officer, Independent Television Service (ITVS)
Sabina Menschel Partner, President, and Chief Operating Officer, Nardello & Co.
Dawn Porter
Founder, Director, and Producer, Trilogy Films
Jeff Rosica Retired Chief Operating Officer, Avid Technology; Board Member, Investor; Philanthropist
Science Visiting Council
Norman R. Augustine
Retired Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Henry Becton, Jr. Vice Chair, GBH Educational Foundation
Joshua Boger, Ph.D. Retired Founder and CEO, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Dr. Michael S. Brown
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