The ACM & F/ACM Staff
Mike Wassenaar, President & CEO
Mike Wassenaar is President & CEO of the Alliance for Community
Media, the organization which supports, promotes and defends Public,
Educational and Government Access television in the United States. He
regularly leads seminars and lectures on community-based media
organizations throughout the United States, and has made presentations
before Congress, the FCC and other national and regional media
organizations.
Mike served 13 years as Executive Director of Saint Paul Neighborhood
Network, a community media center in Saint Paul, MN. During that time,
he worked as lead partner in the Community Technology Empowerment
Project, an AmeriCorps program promoting digital literacy in the Twin
Cities.
Mike has worked in community television and community and public
radio for over thirty years in Minnesota and Wisconsin. He got his start
in radio working in a youth media program as a high school student in
Minneapolis. He produced news and public affairs and entertainment
programs with community volunteers at KFAI Minneapolis and WORT Madison,
and was a reporter and radio host with Wisconsin Public Radio.