The WNET Group Elevates Eugenia Harvey To Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer

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Jun 18, 2020, 10:00 ET

NEW YORK, June 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today The WNET Group, home to PBS stations THIRTEEN, WLIW21 and NJTV and NPR station WLIW-FM, has announced the appointment of Eugenia Harvey to the new position of Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer (CDEIO), effective immediately.

Now a member of the senior management team, she will be involved in all decisions and will play a central role in the efforts to build a more inclusive organization. She will report to Neal Shapiro, President & CEO of The WNET Group.

Eugenia Harvey, Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer for The WNET Group.

"The WNET Group is deeply committed to fighting racism, injustice and discrimination," said Shapiro. "As we seek to make decisions and content that better reflects and serves our diverse communities internally and externally, the role of Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer is more important than ever."

"I believe in the power of public media to be a catalyst for positive change in the world," said Eugenia. "I look forward to helping The WNET Group fulfill its mission by fostering honest conversations about race, equality and representation, both within our organizational decisions and in the programming and initiatives we offer to our local and national communities."

Eugenia joined The WNET Group in 2018 as Executive producer of Chasing the Dream: Poverty & Opportunity in America, a public media initiative providing critical programming on poverty, income equality and opportunity, and Peril & Promise: The Challenge of Climate Change, a public media project reporting on the human stories of climate change and its potential solutions. Both initiatives have led to numerous partnerships and have inspired content for our local and national programs and websites, PBS Digital Studios, public radio and digital productions. The Chasing the Dream initiative was nominated for two New York Emmys in 2019 for its Getting Off the Streets series and under Eugenia's leadership, was nominated for two in 2020 for its series, a Dream Deferred. She will continue to oversee these projects.

Eugenia is an award-winning veteran producer, showrunner and television executive with a wide range of experience in both commercial and public media, including as an executive producer of the recent Carlos Watson series, Third Rail, and as producer of the Race Matters: Solutions series for the PBS NewsHour with Charlayne Hunter-Gault, as well as various high-profile projects for A&E, ABC News, CBS News, and CNN.

About WNET
WNET is America's flagship PBS station: parent company of New York's THIRTEEN and WLIW21, WLIWWorld and WLIWCreate and operator of NJTV, the statewide public media network in New Jersey. Through its new ALL ARTS multi-platform initiative, its broadcast channels, three cable services (THIRTEEN PBSKids, Create and World) and online streaming sites, WNET brings quality arts, education and public affairs programming to more than five million viewers each month. WNET produces and presents a wide range of acclaimed PBS series, including Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, PBS NewsHour Weekend, and the nightly interview program Amanpour and Company. In addition, WNET produces numerous documentaries, children's programs, and local news and cultural offerings, as well as multi-platform initiatives addressing poverty and climate. Through THIRTEEN Passport and WLIW Passport, station members can stream new and archival THIRTEEN, WLIW and PBS programming anytime, anywhere.

SOURCE WNET