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Board of Directors
Rich McClear
Chair
Rich has managed media development projects in rural Minnesota, Alaska, Central Europe, and the Balkans. He has worked on projects in the Middle East and North Africa, South Sudan and the Caucuses helping media outlets, networks and associations develop strategic and business plans and acting as a trainer in media management, planning, and journalism. Rich started in community radio with its strong two-way citizen involvement.
Ambassador Jeanine Jackson
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Vice Chair
Ambassador Jackson was twice a U.S. Ambassador -- in Burkina Faso and Malawi. In Malawi, she led a $250 Million development, governance and security assistance program. As Ambassador to Burkina Faso she oversaw girls education, health and U.S. military security cooperation programs. Other diplomatic postings include Afghanistan, Kenya, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Switzerland and Washington. Ambassador Jackson received the Secretary of State's Distinguished Honor Award for her work in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Paul Maguire
Treasurer
Paul has been a part of Developing Radio Partners for the past six years. He is a Certified Public Accountant and Managing Director, of Maguire Hegarty, LLC Littus. He splits his time between the United States and Ireland.
Trey Adcock
Board Member
Trey Adcock, PhD (ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ, Cherokee Nation citizen), is Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of North Carolina Asheville and current Executive Director of The Center for Native Health. He obtained his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a Sequoyah Dissertation Fellow focusing on technology integration at an American Indian boarding school in Oklahoma. Dr. Adcock’s work has been published in the Journal of American Indian Education, Teaching Tolerance and Readings in Race, Ethnicity and Immigration.
Memory Banda
Board Member
Memory is a child rights and development professional with experience in child protection, girl centered advocacy and youth leadership. A result oriented leader and advocate who successfully led a girl’s movement against child marriages that contributed to the change of law that criminalizes child marriage. An international motivational speaker with excellent public speaking featured at TED talk, United Nations General Assembly, Freedom Forum among many. Memory lives and works in Malawi.
Terry Dunmire
Board Member
Terry is an investment banker and attorney whose focus is on international business development. He currently serves as Chairman and Principal of the August Group, an investment group focusing on technology investments in sub-Saharan Africa; and is on the Board of Directors of RippleNami, Inc. and Power7 Corporation. Terry was responsible for the privatization programs and procedures for Nigeria (BPE) and Egypt (PEO) as well as a strategic advisor for business development. He is currently an advisor to the Morven Center at the University of Virginia and a member of the Atlantic Council.
Troy Etulain
Board Member
Troy is a technology for development and social innovation expert with 21 years' experience in 35 countries. Experience designing and implementing more than $100 million of media and technology for development programs, including strategies for the United Nations and USAID. Now focusing work and research on innovations in last-mile connectivity, digital identities, digital finance, machine learning, remote sensing and health technology innovations.
Brian Fix
Board Chairperson
Brian is an international lawyer who has spent decades as a partner of a leading global law firm advising companies and governments on infrastructure development, joint ventures, and public-private partnerships, particularly throughout Africa (both Anglophone and Francophone) and Eastern Europe. Having spent half his career in Europe as both an American and French lawyer, he also advises companies on corporate acquisitions, restructuring and joint ventures. A strong supporter of NPR Radio, he is also passionate about the potential of radio and other media in tackling key social issues around the world.
Deborah Mesce
Board Member
Debbie is a former program director for international media training in International Programs. Mesce coordinated PRB’s training of journalists in developing countries. Since joining PRB in 2000, she has worked with journalists in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to help them strengthen and raise the profile of their reporting on population issues.
Joan Mower
Board Member
Joan Mower is the former director of the Business Development Office at the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM). She retired in October 2025 to form her own company that seeks to support media primarily in Africa. At USAGM, she handled partnerships with more than 3,000 broadcast and digital stations around the world. The office also ran a robust media training center for international journalists. Mower has also been an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University. From 2007-2008, she was the spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State on Sudan issues. Before joining the USAGM, Mower served as the director of international programs/Africa and Latin America at The Freedom Forum/Newseum. Mower has also served as a Foreign Service Officer. She began her career as a journalist. For 10 years she covered Washington for the Associated Press. She graduated from the University of California/Berkeley and holds an M.A. in African Studies from Johns Hopkins. An avid tennis, Mower grew up in Africa, living in Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa.
Angelina T. Njiwa
Board Member
Angelina is a professional media trainer who currently lectures at the Malawi Institute of Journalism (MIJ). She trains Student Journalists in Broadcast Media and Development Communication. She has worked as a lead advocate for child rights, a television production supervisor, producer, editor and presenter for Zodiak Television, an administrative manager and head of production at Calvary Family Broadcasting Network. Angelina holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Malawi’s Polytechnic College (now MUBAS)