President & CEO @wxxirochester | Former EP & Editor-in-Chief @gbh & @worldchannel | Champion of untold stories that need to be heard. #WXXICEO

Joined May 2007
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Can’t believe it’s already a year at @WXXIrochester @WXXINews ! Celebrate with me by hitting play on the WXXI News Daily News Podcast — your daily dose of Rochester. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… That’s it. Thats the post. Subscribe today ! #wxxiceo
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As the first Latina character, Maria, on the popular children’s show @sesamestreet, Sonia Manzano has opened doors for the Latino community. On this episode of SHE WAS FIRST on @PBS I enter with her into the South Bronx—a place @SoniaMManzano once longed to escape but now embraces for its cultural vibrancy and diversity. Come with us as Sonia gives me a tour and a history lesson about her favorite borough. pbs.org/video/sonia-manzano-…
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Happy 2nd birthday to @LatNewsletter!!!!
We’re raising $25,000 to support independent Latino journalism, expand our reporting, grow our podcast, and continue building a platform where our stories come first. If you believe in this work, help us build the next chapter. 🎂 Donate at bit.ly/SupportTLN
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THE DEVIL IS BUSY shows a world where healthcare access can depend on where you live. Come see theDevilisBusy.com at the Palm Springs Film Festival #PSIFF2026 ShortFest Block 1, Tue, Jan 6th,10:15 am at Festival Theaters with shortlisted documentary short films #PSIFF
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THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR is still #1 on the @netflix Top 10 Films list!
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The director of Netflix’s new true crime doc "The Perfect Neighbor" says she wanted to "flip body camera footage on its head" through the documentary: "Police bodycam footage is usually used to surveil communities,” Gandbhir says. “It’s used to defend the police. For people of color and for vulnerable communities, it’s used to criminalize us. To dehumanize us. It’s a tool of surveillance, and I wanted to take it and flip it back, subverting it to show this beautiful community as it was before. Like really use the footage – and we shouldn’t have to do this – to humanize the people in that community." variety.com/2025/tv/news/the…
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Really enjoyed connecting with @chrishast of @WXXIrochester about what #publicmedia should do right now. My latest for Pressing Issues, the new biweekly newsletter from Free Press How Public Media Can Survive this Crisis Without Losing Its Soul pressingissues.org/how-publi…
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I'll be on @WXXINews Connections at 12pm to talk about my reporting on sewage sludge, and how an effort to temporarily ban its usage died in the final hours of the NYS legislative session. Tune in to listen: youtube.com/watch?v=DBzf4yLj…

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