DEI Update from WUNC

We reached out to Nora Casper, Interim President & General Manager, for an update on how the DEI work at WUNC has been progressing since joining Public Media for All. She offered the following.

What’s one DEI success you’ve had at your organization recently?
WUNC has committed to only having paid internships and we are restructuring our intern program. We have also been holding regular discussion groups around articles on topics such as white supremacy culture and implicit bias.

What’s one lesson you’ve learned about DEI work at your organization?
It touches every aspect of the organization and it takes a meaningful commitment from the entire organization to be successful. We are committed to structural and cultural change within our station and are working with every department to make that happen.

What resources and support do you need to improve DEI at your organization?
Sharing best practices and hearing from other stations about the successes they are having. It would also be great to hear from other stations about public media specific DEI resources they have found.

Public Media for All will be working with the leaders of organizations that have joined us to model successes, share lessons learned, and get the support and resources they need to do this vital DEI work to ensure that public media serves everyone.