Brian Lehrer is host of The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC Radio's daily call-in program, covering politics and life, locally and globally. The Brian Lehrer Show was recognized with a 2007 George Foster Peabody Award for "Radio That Builds Community Rather Than Divides." His political guests have ranged nationally from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to Mitch McConnell and Kellyanne Conway, Chris Christie, and Cynthia Nixon.

Lehrer is also a commentator  on local and national issues on television and in print, and  has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox Newschannel, C-SPAN, NY1, and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. He has written op-ed pieces for publications including The New York Times, The Daily News, Newsday, and Slate. He also hosts a weekly television program on CUNY-TV, "Brian Talks New York.”

co-chair

Betty Cotton

co-chair

Evelyn Stock

Joan Frankle
Joyce Hirsch
Joanne Landau
Betsy Landis
Patricia Lunka

John Nonna
Cornelia Spring
Nicki Tanner
Susan Wollin
Susan Yubas

Chair

Joanne Landau

President

Dr. Thomas Lee

Aleida Frederico
Barbara A. Abeles
Meryl Allison
Amy Ansehl
George E. Austin
Benjamin Cheever
James W. Cobb
Edward L. Conway
Sharon F. Cooper, Esq.
Robert Cordero
Betty Cotton
John A. DeCicco, Sr.
Lisa M. Denig
Doug Greene
Jennifer M. Gruenberg
Peter Herrero, Jr.
Joyce Hirsch
Anne Janiak
Elyse Klayman
Jeremy Kohomban
George S. Latimer, Ex-Officio
George P. Lindsay
Stephen Lowey
Patricia P. Lunka
Matthew G. McCrosson

Philip J. McGrath
Dr. Belinda S. Miles, Ex-Officio
Dr. LeRoy W. Mitchell, Ex-Officio
Wendy R. Nadel
Shirley A. Phillips
Yvonne Pollack
John W. Priesing
Gabriella Quartey, Ex-Officio
Deborah Raizes
Richard Shearer
Cecile D. Singer
Florence Sinsheimer
Cornelia Spring
Katherine Stipicevic
Evelyn Stock
Joshua H. Strauss
Ruth Suzman
Alice Tenney
Dr. Chad W. Thompson, Ex-Officio
Lucille S. Werlinich
Helen T. Williams
Sani Williams
Susan E. Wollin
Susan Yubas

Toby Crystal

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