Teri Yuan is the Executive Director of WilliNet, the community media center serving Northern Berkshire County, where she is excited to help expand local storytelling, civic engagement, and digital media access. A nonprofit executive and operations strategist with an MBA from Columbia Business School, Teri has spent her career building organizations, leading complex initiatives, and creating partnerships that strengthen communities.

Teri is also the founder of the Engendered Collective, a platform that brings together survivors, practitioners, and allies through education, advocacy, and dialogue on gender justice. She organizes the International Coercive Control Conference, hosts the en(gender)ed podcast, and believes that community media and thoughtful conversation have the power to foster understanding, amplify diverse voices, and inspire positive social change. She is honored to join WilliNet and looks forward to working with residents, producers, local organizations, and Williams College to celebrate and strengthen the stories that make the region unique.

You can reach Teri directly at ED.Willinet@gmail.com or at (413) 252-2200.

Public access TV is an invaluable tool for a community that thinks globally and acts locally. As Production Manager at WilliNet, I am proud to facilitate community engagement in Williamstown and throughout the Berkshires, whether we’re broadcasting municipal meetings, co-producing arts, politics, or culture-related shows with local citizens, or running media-making workshops with local schoolchildren.

WilliNet is a trusted source for information about our community & a vital media resource for Williamstown. As a Board member, I will work to support the mission of the organization & the growth of its programming.

To me, Willinet is three things: a portal, a witness, and an archive. In all these ways, Willinet educates us and sustains our sense of community. Our function as a town, a democracy, and a home depends on this work. Willinet holds the thread that connects us, reminding us of who we are, who we have been, and who we might become.

I am enthusiastic about promoting Willinet’s worthwhile civic objectives and about supporting its wonderful team of folks dedicated to the profound importance of our local community television.  Willinet — just like our local government, local schools and local cultural offerings — is all about the meaningful partnerships we create that knit us together.

Martin has been an active participant in local community life, having served as an elected select board member, elected library trustee, conservation commission member, and board of health member as well as having been a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical technician (EMT) in southern Berkshire County.  In addition to his WilliNet board role, he currently volunteers with the Friends of Milne Public Library, helping sort donations for Chapter Two Books.  Martin’s professional work was in corporate, municipal and personal finance.

When I interned at Willinet in 2005, I immediately felt that it was special. The people—the Willinet staff and all the community members that contribute to the programming—all want to make their community a better place. As I continue to strengthen my roots in Williamstown, I hope to share my community vision and help others to realize theirs.

As the go-to communication person at the Milne Public Library, I understand the importance of civic engagement and how communication plays a role in building community connections. I am ecstatic to be on the WilliNet board as community television is an important way to continue fostering town knowledge and belonging.

Serving on both the WilliNet and Milne Library boards, I focus on expanding access to local stories and media-making tools. WilliNet’s production resources are essential for helping more residents tell their own stories and engage with local media.

I joined the WilliNet board because I believe a strong community thrives when people are empowered to speak, learn, and connect. Technology mediates our speech: I’m passionate about making media access a space for inquiry, dialogue, and civic participation, helping bridge technology and humanity so that everyone in our community can share, receive, and engage with information that matters.