Staff

Carol Pierson, President and CEO


Carol Pierson represents community radio at the national and regional level with Congress, the FCC, funders, and networks, as well as other national and regional organizations. To further NFCB's role as a supporting umbrella for its various constituencies, she worked with the Native American stations following up on the Inter-Tribal Native Radio Summit and with the Latino controlled stations to organize the Latino Station Summit. In addition to providing organizational and fiscal leadership, Carol works to develop resources that will help NFCB members in revising The Public Radio Legal Handbook; writing Digital Audiocraft; direct consulting with stations on management, operations, planning and board development.

Prior to NFCB Carol served as Program Director and Director of Radio Productions at KQED-FM in San Francisco for 10 years after 8 years as Assistant Station Manager, Director of Operations and National Programming Director at WGBH-FM in Boston. Her radio career started at WYSO in Yellow Springs, OH, where she was Public Affairs Director and Assistant Manager for 3 years. In her spare time, Carol sings soprano with the La Peña Community Chorus in Berkeley, CA.

Ginny Z. Berson , Vice President and Director of Federation Services


Ginny Z. Berson has primary responsibility for planning and organizing the Community Radio Conference and the National Youth in Radio Training Project. She also runs NFCB's Rural Programming Initiative (a CPB-funded initiative). She writes the "Rules, Tools and Jewels" column for Community Radio News. Ginny is absolutely not a lawyer, but she is the person to call if you have questions about FCC regulations or other legal issues. If she doesn't know the answer, she'll find out. She also keeps the resource files, so if you have or need copies of other stations' job descriptions, plugola policies, etc., ask her.

Ginny has been at NFCB since October 1998. From 1981-1997 she held a variety of jobs at KPFA-FM in Berkeley and with Pacifica National Programming, including being Program Director and Senior Producer of Live National Programs. In her spare time Ginny plays the clarinet and goes diving in exotic locales such as Fiji and the Caribbean islands.

Kai Aiyetoro, CFO/Director of Low Power FM


Kai Aiyetoro serves as CFO/Director of LPFM for the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) and Director of Financial Affairs at CNAPR. She has assisted community organizations throughout the country develop LPFM stations in small communities through consulting, supplying resource materials, engineering referrals, and hands-on station construction.

Kai has served as General Manager at WRFG-FM in Atlanta, GA; Program/Music Director at KJLU-FM in Jefferson City, MO; and Development Director and Operations Director at KKFI-FM in Kansas City, MO. She also served 22 years in the healthcare industry as a Licensed Practical Nurse (MO, KS, MN) and finance administrator for National AIDS Education & Services for Minorities in Atlanta. Kai was Treasurer for the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists from 2000-2001 and is currently the Treasurer for the Bay Area Association of Black Journalists. Kai is an artist, a mother of two sons, and has ten grandchildren.

Carolyn Caton, Development and Communications


A Philadelphia native, Carolyn joined NFCB in 2005. She previously worked at CTCG, a nonprofit political and technology consulting company. In her free time, Carolyn enjoys volunteering with YEAH! Youth Shelter in Berkeley, CA, and with the 100 Friends Project, a small grassroots project that distributes emergency money to people in need around the world.

Martina Tran, Program Manager
martina@nfcb.org

Martina Tran got her start in community radio with KALX Berkeley almost 10 years ago and was immediately bitten by the bug.  She learned to produce public affairs programming there via Film Close-Ups, really to legitimize her movie-fending habits.  Martina went on to work with independent production companies around the San Francisco Bay Area and as Production Coordinator on The Loose Leaf Book Company with Tom Bodett and The Blues, a PRI-distributed documentary.  Her Facebook profile lists “Radio! Radio! Radio!” as her only interest though she also likes books, music, knitting, and tea.  Martina joins NFCB as Program Manager, heading up our New Technologies, New Music initiative as well as taking over organizing the annual Community Radio Conference.