Staff

Maxie C Jackson III, President and CEO
Maxie C Jackson III serves as President & Chief Executive Officer for the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB).

Jackson has served as Senior Director Program Development at New York Public Radio (WNYC) involved in strategic planning for national and local programming, outreach and audience development efforts, and new media and marketing initiatives. He was intimately involved in the launch of “The Takeaway” in addition to developing community engagement strategies and a new evening drive program for WNYC.

During his public radio career, Jackson has served on national (CPB, PRX, NPR, BBC and PRI) committees impacting public radio funding, technology, recruitment and programming. Currently, he is a member of the Development Exchange Inc. (DEI) Board of Directors, Association of Independents in Radio's (AIR) Maker’s Quest 2.0 Talent Committee, and Public Radio International’s (PRI) Program Director Advisory Group. He served on Eastern Region Public Media's (ERPM) Executive Board and the Executive Board of the African American Public Radio Consortium (AAPRC).

Jackson holds a master's degree in multi-channel management from Michigan State University. He earned a bachelor’s degree in broadcast management from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. He is capable of providing critical analysis of design, convergence and management strategy relevant to multimedia programming. Jackson lives with his wife and two children in New Jersey.

Ginny Z. Berson, Vice President and Director of Federation Services
Ginny Z. Berson has primary responsibility for planning and organizing the Community Radio Conference and the National Youth in Radio Training Project. She also runs NFCB's Rural Programming Initiative (a CPB-funded initiative). She writes the "Rules, Tools and Jewels" column for Community Radio News. Ginny is absolutely not a lawyer, but she is the person to call if you have questions about FCC regulations or other legal issues. If she doesn't know the answer, she'll find out. She also keeps the resource files, so if you have or need copies of other stations' job descriptions, plugola policies, etc., ask her.

Ginny has been at NFCB since October 1998. From 1981-1997 she held a variety of jobs at KPFA-FM in Berkeley and with Pacifica National Programming, including being Program Director and Senior Producer of Live National Programs. In her spare time Ginny plays the clarinet and goes diving in exotic locales such as Fiji and the Caribbean islands.