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Loris Ann Taylor, Executive Director

Loris Ann Taylor is Executive Director of CNAPR and was honored as a 2005 Leader for a Changing World by the Ford Foundation and with the 2006 Louis T. Delgado Distinguished Grantmaker Award from Native Americans in Philanthropy. As Associate Director of the Hopi Foundation, the largest 501(c)(3) organization on the Hopi Reservation, Taylor worked to advance the foundation’s mission to continually improve the living condition of families on the Reservation. In 2001, Taylor became the General Manager of KUYI-FM, Hopi Radio. Taylor has represented nineteen of Arizona's twenty-one tribes as intergovernmental affairs liaison; and served her own tribe as Special Assistant under the Office of General Counsel in the areas of land, water and energy matters. Taylor also represented native women at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.


Peggy Berryhill, Director of Services and Planning

Peggy Berryhill (Muscogee) is CNAPR’s Director of Station Services and Planning, with primary responsibility for the Native Radio Summit, an annual meeting of Native radio representatives. Berryhill’s media expertise and commitment to community have earned her the American Indian 2005 Local Heroes award from KQED-FM public broadcasting in San Francisco. She is the founder of the Native Media Resource Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to produce educational materials about Indigenous communities and promote cross-cultural understanding and racial harmony. Peggy began her career in broadcasting in 1973. She has been a Program Director at KUNM-FM, KPFA-FM, and KALW-FM, and is the only Native person to have worked as a full-time producer at National Public Radio (NPR), where she worked in the Specialized Audience Programs Department from 1978-79.


Kai Aiyetoro, Director of Financial Affairs

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 consultanting, 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.

CNAPR launches Media Ownership Campaign at NCAI Convention and Trade Show
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CPB Board Visits the Hopi Reservation
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Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making
The FCC seeks comment on how to address the issues raised by the opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Prometheus v. FCC
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Native Media Ownership Hearings
Loris Ann Taylor and the CNAPR Advisory Coucil request the FCC hold hearings on Native Media Ownership
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ITI Regional Workshop And Roundtable
VIDEO The last two days of July found CNAPR’s Loris Taylor and Peggy Berryhill co-hosting a meeting in San Diego.
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NCAI Testimony
NCAI's President Garcia's testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee and NCAI's recently passed resolutions on telecommunications policy.
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Red Lake Tribe Starts Internet Radio Station
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Measure your Indecency I.Q.
John Crigler of Garvey Schubert Barer has a new indecency quiz. Take the quiz and see how much you know about current FCC indecency rulings. He's also written an indecency primer. Download and read the Primer.

Upcoming FM Auction Rescheduled
Are you interested in a radio station to serve your tribal community?
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Recommendations for Congress on Indian Country
Last fall, Senate Democrats convened over 150 tribal leaders for the first ever Senate Democratic Native American Leadership Forum.
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