My dedication to fostering inclusive media is reflected in my writing and public speaking engagements, where I offer insights on digital strategy, audio and community engagement to audiences nationwide.
Writing
- We can’t let anti-DEI laws kill public media (Current, 2024)
- The Six Success Factors for Nonprofit DEI Councils (Independent Sector, 2024)
- How DEI councils can help public media manage change and retain staff (Current, 2024)
- The Secret to Highly Effective DEI Councils (Greater Public, 2024)
- The playground of possibilities: A guide to generative AI for public media (Current, 2024)
- How public media can use AI to reach Latino audiences (Current, 2023)
- NPR’s State of the Union coverage aims to reach listeners who navigate the world in two languages (Current, 2023)
- Coalition organizes day of action for movement to fix public media’s workplace culture (Current, 2020)
Interviews
- Content Amplified: What Can B2B Teams Learn from Radio (2025)
- AINews.com interview (2025)
- Experiments show potential of newsletter platforms beyond email (Current, 2024)
- Signal Flow: Ernesto Aguilar (Noise Gate, 2024)
- How KUER’s new station fills a media gap for Utah Latinos (Current, 2024)
- How public radio stations can serve deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences (Current, 2022)
- Serving Spanish Speakers & Latinx Communities (Gather, 2022)
- How KQED is Forging New Bonds with Latinx Audiences (Gather, 2022)
- Public Radio’s News/Talkers: ‘We Have To Change How We Think About Ourselves.’ (Inside Radio, 2021)
- Public Radio’s News/Talkers, Part 2: ‘We Don’t Live Or Die By Ratings’ (Inside Radio, 2021)
- Meet Ernesto Aguilar A Latinx Advocate and Thought Leader for Public Radio (BoldLatina, 2021)
- Rare donation of license awards freedom to Vermont community station (Current, 2021)
- Why Radio Should Put Artists First: Joe Crowley’s ‘AMFA’ Take (Radio and Television Business Report, 2021)
- San Francisco’s Top Morning Shows, By The Numbers: KCBS, KQED Are Winners By The Bay (Inside Radio, 2021)
- Discussing KQED, community media and OIGO (KWMR, 2021)
- Interview on community radio (This Week in Radio Tech, 2020)
- How College and Community Radio are Responding to COVID-19 (Radio Survivor, 2020)
- Interview on public media, diversity and change (Trilloquy, 2021)
- Speaking to station communities about radio, including KFAI (2021)
- Public Media for All campaign gives participants ‘something to aspire to’ (Current, 2020)
- The Importance Of Diversity, Equity And Inclusion In Public Media (Capital Public Radio, 2020)
- When will public media be public media for all? (The Objective, 2020)
- Coalition Calls for Day of Action for Diversity in Public Media (Radio World, 2020)
- Is Diversity in U.S. Radio Engineering Possible? (Radio World, 2020)
- Honoring the Rollicking Radio Revolution Led by WBCN (Radio World, 2020)
- Report: Community Media Can Make the Census Count (Center for Community Media, 2020)
- WBCN doc reaches a new audience while boosting community radio stations (Boston Globe, 2020)
- Rock station documentary provides support for community radio stations during pandemic (Current, 2020)
- “At 40, WMNF still stickin’ it to the man. But does it need to change?” (Tampa Bay Times, 2019)
- WBAI Crisis, Relevance and Community Radio (WORT, 2019)
- BirdNote and the Value of Environmental Journalism (KWMR, 2019)
- Radio Phoenix interview (2019)
- Community Radio: A local voice worth your support (Zipsprout, 2018)
- WGXC Morning Show (2018)
- “The Future of Community Radio” panel (Radio Survivor, 2018)
- On NFCB rural initiative (Spark News, 2018)
- How Community Media Can Encourage Minority Communities To Engage (Forbes, 2017)
- KCSB interview on the power of community media (2017)
Speaking & Engagements
I do a variety of conference speaking and webinar training on various media subjects, including digital strategy, AI, DEI, audio production, radio content and more. Here are just a few interviews, sessions and engagements:
- Webinar: Introduction to generative AI and public media (2024)
- Public Media Content Conference featured session: Connecting With Latino Audiences (2023)
- America Amplified: How we reached Latino/a/e/x Communities (2022)
- Public Radio Content Conference (2019)
- Native Broadcast Summit (2019 | 2018)
- WordCamp 2017
- Community Media Conference
- Alliance for Community Media Conference
- Podcast Movement
- Allied Media Conference
- Grassroots Radio Conference
Culture Writing & Longform
A few more pieces, essays and reports I have written include:
- At a time when local information is needed, FCC vote endangers public-access stations (Current, 2019)
- Public Enemy’s It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back changed the shape of hip-hop (Treble, 2018)
- Related: Believe The Hype: Groundbreaking Public Enemy Album Celebrates 30 Years (Wisconsin Public Radio, 2018)
- Small Town Community Radio Takes On the Housing Crisis (The Progressive, 2018)
- “I’m a testament to public media’s transformative power” (Current, 2017)
- Corporate radio’s classic hip-hop oldies stations could destroy the genre’s history (Guardian, 2015)
- Community radio: grappling with the new digital ecosystem (Radio Survivor, 2014)
- Join the celebration of National Radio Day (Current, 2016)
- How To Get Your Band Played On The Radio – Everything You Need To Know! (Metal Injection, 2017)
- Ronda Rousey makes $3m a year but most UFC fighters don’t get what they deserve (Guardian, 2015)
I am co-author of a thought paper and resource guide on building effective DEI Councils. You can download it free from Brevity & Wit. For the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, I authored a variety of guides, including a primer on podcasting for community radio stations. These are still available to NFCB member organizations.
Audio
As a program director and news producer, I have an extensive list of audio work to my credit. I also produced NFCB’s (now defunct) podcast Up for Air.
I’ve conducted many interviews on subjects of interest, including a 2007 interview with historian John Hart on Cinco de Mayo’s political history. In addition, I produced national live radio coverage of events.