Our People

The Executive Council provides advice and assistance to the management of WWNO New Orleans Public Radio. Its members are elected by the Council from among WWNO’s members, upon nomination by the Council’s Nominating Committee.

Mark Seyler, Executive Council Chair
Retired attorney, Barkley & Thompson

Mandy Walker, Vice Chair
Principal, Picnic Media

Melanie Myers Bronfin
Retired Attorney and non-profit executive

Joshua Cox
CEO, Resilience Works LLC

Jack Davis
Former Interim Executive Director, Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans; Former Publisher, CEO, The Hartford Courant; Former City Editor, The Times-Picayune

Shelina Davis
CEO, Louisiana Public Health Institute

Ayame Dinkler
Principal, Crane Strategies; Former Chief Administrator Officer, LCMC Health

John Doucet, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Sciences and Technology, Nicholls State University

Marjorie Esman, Ph.D.
Attorney; Former executive director, Louisiana American Civil Liberties Union

T. Bradley Keith
Principal, Gulf South Strategies & Solutions

Susan Krinsky
Interim President and CEO, Law School Admission Council

Andy Kopplin
CEO, Greater New Orleans Foundation

Michelle Mathew
Development and Communications Manager, The Wallace Center at Winrock International

Julian Mutter
President Emeritus, Doerr Furniture Company

Cyndi Nguyen
Community Outreach Strategies Advisor, Regional Transit Authority; Former District E Councilmember, New Orleans City Council

Adam Norris
Chief Communications Officer, University of New Orleans

Peter Ricchiuti
Assistant Dean, Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

Katharine Ferguson Roberts
Former radio reporter and producer, NPR

Erick Valentine
Assistant Dean, Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

Christy West
Retired educator, St. Tammany Parish Public Schools