The WilliNet Board of Directors is excited to announce Theresa “Teri” Yuan as the next Executive Director of WilliNet, Community TV for Williamstown. Yuan is a northern Berkshire resident who brings 15 years of executive and operations leadership experience building mission-driven organizations and public facing programs.

As COO of Equality Labs, Yuan led operations for a rapidly scaling civil rights, education, and advocacy organization. Yuan produced and co-hosted en(gender)ed podcast and describes herself as a storyteller but: “I’m strongest in roles where the work requires both vision and follow-through: building partnerships, running day-to-day operations, supporting creators, and steadily improving systems so the organization can do more of what it exists to do.”

After a competitive job search this spring, WilliNet Board Chair Mary Strout reports: “The Board is elated to find someone with Teri’s background in media storytelling, and community programming to further WilliNet’s mission as an avenue of free speech for the people of Williamstown to engage, connect and create.”

Teri Yuan starts on June 22, “I am excited to help WilliNet step into its next chapter- strengthening civic life in Williamstown while making the station even more accessible, relevant, and energizing for the people it serves.”

Yuan will overlap with current Director Deb Dane, who is retiring on June 30 after 20 years at the helm. Dane’s spirited leadership was recognized in 2021 when WilliNet received the Scarborough Salomon Flynt Community Service Award in recognition of “extraordinary dedication, excellence, and integrity in service to Williamstown.”

WilliNet received a grant to underwrite the cost of closed captions from the Fund for Williamstown & the Mary and Henry Flynt Grant Fund; administered by the Williamstown Community Chest in coordination with the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. WilliNet THANKS YOU for your generous grant support!
Closed captions coming soon to video on demand (VOD) programs on willinet.org & our streaming apps!

W’town has 4,644 registered voters, 411 cast ballots at Town Election.  Election results HERE   Janet Curran was top voter-getter in the contested  Library Trustee race for 2 seats garnering 336 votes; Michael Sussman – 216 votes; Kathleen Schultze – 205 votes; Martin Mitkoff – 97 votes.

The other uncontested races – Select Board: Stephanie Boyd – 336 votes; Shana Dixon – 322 votes; Nate Buddington – 336 votes.

Planning Board –  Roger Lawrence – 320 votes;  Housing Authority – Charles Stephen Dew -326 votes.

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