Pioneers The Public's Radio

Alan Hassenfeld is former Chairman and CEO of Hasbro, Inc., a multi-billion-dollar international toy company and worldwide leader in children’s and family entertainment.

Julie Nora, Ph.D., is the Director of the International Charter School, a two-way immersive, bilingual charter school serving students in grades K through 5 in Rhode Island.

Rabbi Leslie Gutterman served Temple Beth-El for 45 years until his retirement in 2015. For 20 years, Rabbi Gutterman wrote a monthly column for the religion page of The Providence Journal.

For nearly twenty years, Amanda Milkovits covered crime and justice for the Providence Journal. In 2019, she moved to the Boston Globe to cover Rhode Island.

Angel Taveras served as the 37th Mayor of the City of Providence from 2011 to 2015. He was the first Latino mayor for the city, and the fourth Dominican-American mayor in the nation.