Bushkin
and Pennekamp to Co-Chair Internews Network
February 4, 2005 —
Internews Network, a non-profit organization that
works to improve access to information for people
around the world, announced today the election
of Kathy Bushkin and Peter Pennekamp as Board
Co-Chairs.
Kathy Bushkin is Executive Vice President and
Chief Operating Officer of the United Nations
Foundation. Peter Pennekamp has been executive
director of the Humboldt Area Foundation in California
since 1993. Both Bushkin and Pennekamp have served
on Internews’ board for many years, and
Pennekamp has previously served as Chair.
“Internews is privileged to have these dynamic
and committed individuals as Board Co-Chairs and
looks forward to their leadership in our work
fostering independent media and promoting open
communications policies,” said Internews
President David Hoffman.
Formerly, as Senior Vice-President for Corporate
Relations at AOL Time Warner, Bushkin was one
of the chief architects of the company’s
corporate citizenship policies, serving as President
of the AOL Time Warner Foundation. She was also
Senior Vice-President and Chief Communications
Officer at America Online. She joined America
Online in 1997 following a career which included
top management positions at Hill and Knowlton
and U.S. News & World Report and a stint as
press secretary for Senator Gary Hart.
In addition to serving on the Board of Directors
for Internews, Bushkin currently serves on the
boards of the International Women’s Media
Foundation, the Wolf Trap National Park, National
Women’s Law Center, International Radio
& Television Society Foundation, and Share
Our Strength, a hunger-relief foundation. She
co-founded the Stargazer Foundation, which is
building an Internet portal for nonprofit activities
and organizations.
Formerly, Pennekamp served as Vice-President of
National Public Radio and as a Program Director
for the National Endowment for the Arts, both
in Washington D.C. He also serves on the board
of directors of the California Endowment, the
board of advisors of the University of Southern
California Center for Nonprofit Studies, and is
a founding member of the League of California
Community Foundations. He is often a policy or
grants panelist, including for the Ford, Rockefeller,
and David and Lucile Packard Foundations and for
the National Endowment for the Humanities, Corporation
for Public Broadcasting and Independent Television
Service.
At National Public Radio, Pennekamp was instrumental
in developing two radio series which won George
Foster Peabody Awards: Heat, with John Hockenberry
and Wade in the Water, with Bernice Johnson Reagon.
At Humboldt State University in California, he
founded and directed The Bridge, a public program
in the natural sciences, humanities and media.
The other members of the Internews Network Board
are Manana Asalamazian, Executive Director of
Internews Russia; Greg Carr, Director of the Gregory
C. Carr Foundation; Wade Greene, Rockefeller Financial
Services; David Hoffman, President of Internews
Network; Ellen Hume, Director of the Center on
Media and Society at the University of Massachusetts;
Congressman James Leach, US House of Representatives;
David Michaelis, Director of Current Affairs for
WorldLink TV; Pat Mitchell, President and CEO
of Public Broadcasting Service; Susan Rice, Ph.D.,
Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution; Sanford
Socolow, Executive Producer of Cronkite Productions,
Inc.; Kim Spencer, President of Link TV; and Raisa
Scriabine, International Development Consultant.
Bushkin and Pennekamp replace Internews Board
Chair Markos Kounalakis who has stepped down from
the board owing to business commitments after
serving as Chair for over two years.
The United Nations Foundation
(UN Foundation) was created in 1998 with businessman
and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic
gift to support United Nations’ causes.
The UN Foundation promotes a more peaceful, prosperous,
and just world through the support of the UN.
Through its grant making and by building new and
innovative public-private partnerships, the UN
Foundation acts to meet the most pressing health,
humanitarian, socioeconomic, and environmental
challenges of the 21st century.
