New Board Members Introduced at

CAN TV's Annual Board Meeting

Some of CAN TV's new board members (from left to right) Kevin Hull, Dartesia Pitts, Mirna Holton, Myrna Mazur, Bryant Kim, and Alie Kabba

December 22, 2011

CAN TV welcomed eight new community board members at its annual meeting on December 14, 2011. These new members come from a wide range of backgrounds and will help guide the future of CAN TV in 2012 and beyond. They include:

Alfredo Calixto, Vice President for Institutional Advancement,

St. Augustine College

Freddy Calixto works with community relations, political relationship building, annual giving, major gifts, and other development matters at St. Augustine College. Prior to that position, Freddy worked for 30 years at BUILD, Inc, including serving as Executive Director from 1994-2009. His long list of community memberships and boards indicates deep ties with a broad range of groups from Local School Councils to serving on Cook County State’s Attorney Hispanic Advisory Council.

Jenny Goltz, Associate Attorney, Meckler, Bulger, Tilson, Marick & Pearson

Ms. Goltz is the 2010 recipient of the Young Lawyer of the Year Award from the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights. A native Chicagoan, Ms. Goltz said, I believe CAN TV is doing important work, particularly to the extent it gives Chicagoans a forum in which to voice their concerns, opinions and ideas, and to connect people with needed services and information.

Mirna Teresa Holton, Associate Vice President of Institutional Advancement, Roosevelt University

Ms. Holton’s interest in the use of mixed media tools by different communities as they organize around issues of justice and democracy ties closely to the mission of CAN TV. At Roosevelt, she is involved in the University’s $100 million comprehensive campaign, identifying, cultivating, soliciting and stewarding institutional and individual donors. She was a Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow, serves on numerous advisory boards, and volunteers at Instituto del Progreso Latino.

Kevin Hull, Principal Partner, Hull Partners, LTD

Mr. Hull began to advocate for CAN TV almost as soon as he had submitted an application for board membership. He wants to join in "promoting and protecting the right of free speech for all in the community, as well as pro-actively providing a venue for diverse issues to be expressed and communicated..." Through Hull Partners, he completed a contract with The John Marshall Law School Foundation that raised more than $700,000.

Alie Kabba, Executive Director, United African Organization

In his position at UAO, Mr. Kabba has increased the visibility and respect for this coalition of African community-based associations dedicated to social and economic justice, civic participation, and empowerment of African immigrants and refugees in Illinois. He is the first African and Muslim to be elected President of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Actively involved doing live call-in programs on CAN TV, Mr. Kabba says, “The City’s stature as a global metropolis is best reflected in the range of issues and communities represented on CAN TV’s engaging programs.”

Bryant Kim, Performer and Teacher of traditional Korean percussion

As Culture Director of Korean American Resource & Cultural Center of Chicago, Mr. Kim spent the past year and a half devising and implementing a 3-year apprenticeship program to recruit and train new members for IL KWA NORI, KRCC’s Korean American cultural troupe. As a board member, Mr. Kim hopes to connect CAN TV with topics relating to Asian Americans and immigration, increase awareness of CAN TV, and translate that into greater membership of local residents and community based organizations.

Myrna Mazur, Public Affairs Consultant

Prior to her work as a public relations consultant, Ms. Mazue spent her career in higher education and health and human services. She worked with the Cook County Department of Public Aid, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, and spent 19 years in various capacities at University of Illinois. As a board member she hopes to help “raise the growing importance and necessity of an active public media where ideas, news, opinions and not censored, where information is dispense without bias, and where thought and expression in a give and take can grow into meaningful action and better communities.”

Dartesia Pitts, Principal Attorney, Dartesia A. Pitts Law Office

As Principal Attorney, Ms. Pitts concentrates on transactional real estate deals, business, entertainment and probate. She won the Cook County Bar Association Presidential Award in 2010 and is Co-Chair of the Association’s TV committee, producing live call-in programs on a variety of legal issues. As a board member, she wants the community to understand the value of CAN TV and to make sure that this valuable asset stays in existence.

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