Mission
We are a community of public media professionals, led by people of color. We are leading the movement to ensure we are co-creating public media for all, especially those who have been historically mischaracterized, inadequately represented and underserved. Everyone deserves access to media that reflects their communities, cultures, and humanity. We believe media that models and reflects the free exchange of ideas is vital to a healthy democracy and society.
Values
We envision a community of engaged practitioners who continuously grow public media to serve all by living the following values as radically as we can afford to be every day.
Restorative Practices
Intentionally bringing people together in dialogue to deepen understanding while centering the humanity of people who have been marginalized. Seeking to provide acknowledgment and repair in order to reduce the likelihood of future harm and encourage healing.
Responsibility and Accountability
Establishing the duties of individuals in their work with other people to improve and grow community service. Ensure that there are clearly understood boundaries, and regular opportunities to check in and receive actionable feedback to support progress in measurable ways.
Mindful Integrity
Practicing work with fierce compassion and a dedicated honor of these values, while giving ourselves and others the grace to err, learn, grow and rest. Committing to change that starts with our own thoughtful questioning and continuous improvement sustained by community, gratitude, and the delight of discovery.
Abundant Fairness
Approaching our work with a joyfully additive mindset, beginning by assuming honorable intent, and striving for solutions that are more than the sum of their parts to grow our service to all. Leaning into the generative messiness of co-creation and collaboration as the birthplace of innovation and lasting solutions that benefit all.
Community service
Listening to discover, understand, and center the needs, wants and aspirations of the people who work in public media and the many communities we seek to better serve. Helping to build beloved communities that celebrate our differences and empower people to claim their authentic identities, while strengthening the connective tissue of our individual dignity and shared humanity.
“Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.”
— bell hooks