Dave Edwards, Chair
Edwards, who has led Milwaukee Public Radio since 1985, has increased local fundraising, built a new state of the art facility and expanded news coverage.  WUWM was among the first public radio stations to convert to an all news and information format.  WUWM also participated in the national "Sense of Place" research project designed to help focus local news coverage.  Dave is a member of the University / Station Alliance board and also serves on the NPR board.

Joanne Church, President
Joanne Church has been associated with Radio Research Consortium since its inception in 1981 and was named President in 2005.  Joanne also oversees the production process of RRC Product Packages that Arbitron subscribers purchase. Before the RRC, Joanne worked for the Arbitron Company for ten years in various positions including systems design, and Manager of Production and Radio Market Reports.

Ken Davis has more than thirty years of experience in Chicago radio and television.  As Director of Chicago Municipal Television, Ken created an award-winning 24-hour information service on the City-owned cable channels that highlighted the programs, personalities and events of city government.  He was Program Director of Chicago's public radio station, WBEZ, for more than ten years and its first news director. Ken also served for five years as communications director for the City of Chicago's Department of Environment. He has served on a variety of boards and has a strong interest in the technical aspects of media.

Catherine Little has enjoyed 37 years of service to corporate clients and consumers as a marketing, communications and development professional in both the for profit and nonprofit world to include terms on the Board of Directors of the Community Culinary School of Charlotte and Carolina Raptor Center.  She has been a participant in Charlotte's Women in Communications and the Association of Women in Radio and Television.   Catherine joined WFAE / WFHE in 1994, and is currently the stations' Corporate Development Director.

Craig Oliver is a research consultant for Public Radio International, The Development Exchange and public radio stations. He was a co-presenter of PRPD's Beyond the Basics workshop.  Craig was the co-founder and first president of PRPD, before serving as head of network operations for PRI.  For WAMU, Washington DC, Oliver was program director and news director. In between stints elsewhere, Craig served as President of RRC.

Gary Shivers was founding Chairman of RRC, 1981-1994, and continues to serve as a member of the board. He began his career in radio news in Kansas City, followed by gigs as News Director and Program Director at KANU (1968-1975), founding PD and General Manager at WUNC (1975-1990), and GM at KMUW (1990-1993). He served on the NPR board and worked with more than fifty stations as

Scott Williams has been a program director since 1976, and has headed programming at all-news KJZZ and classical KBAQ in Phoenix since 1989.  Williams served on the Public Radio Program Directors Association board, chaired the group for two years and has led its annual PD workshop for 13 years.  He was a trainer for RRC workshops for four years, and he is also part of Strategic Programming Partners, currently leading the Morning Edition Grad School project.  He was teaching assistant for Howard Stern's first communications class at Boston University.