Board of Directors
Staff
Executive Director
Jim Mullane
Jim Graduated from Emerson College with a BS in 1989. He first started his career in front of the camera as an actor and model for over 15 years. During this time he wrote and directed theater productions, taught acting for stage and television for a non-profit organization, the Performing Arts Center of Metro West. Jim was hired as the 1st Theater Coordinator for the Performing Arts Center. He then went on to create a summer theater program at Wayland's summer camp called Pegasus. This is where Jim got started working as a Producer at the Wayland Station. Jim then had an opportunity to take over the job running the studio as Station Manager here in Wayland and was eventually promoted to Executive Director of WayCAM.
Production Manager
Mark Foreman
Mark graduated from Umass Amherst with a BA in Communication in 2012. While at Umass, Mark held internships with both NBC Boston and Amherst Media, Amherst's Public Access Station. A Wayland High School Graduate, Mark took many classes with Jim Mullane at the old WayCAM studio. He also worked with Jim at Pegasus in the Television Department.
Studio Production Assistant
Jourdon Abraham
Jourdon graduated from the University of Hartford with a BA in Broadcast Technology. He’s held internships at WGBH and BNN - two of the most renowned broadcasting companies in the world. Jourdon is passionate about music and film and has worked with some of the biggest names in both industries. He continues to expand his skills filming Wayland’s public and educational events.
Chair/President
Elaine Donnely
Elaine joined WayCAM in 2019, excited to support the exchange of ideas in our local community. Her earliest experience in communications was editing a small startup newspaper with young people in Ukraine as a Peace Corps volunteer. Since then, Elaine has been an academic researcher, an English teacher, a marginal piano player, an adjunct professor, a late night grantwriter, a flawed-yet-well-meaning parent, a book cover designer, a community activist, an enthusiastic painter, and a not-dead-yet marathoner (not necessarily in that order). Today, she is the Director of the Tisch Community Research Center at Tufts University, working to center community voice in scholarship and knowledge co-creation. Elaine graduated with a BA from Boston College, an MA from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an MS and PhD from UMass Boston.
Secretary/Clerk
Nora Rothschild
Nora Rothschild (she, her), her husband, and two kids moved to Wayland in 2016. Since then, she has had the privilege of joining the Wayland Democratic Town Committee and the Wayland Cultural Council. Nora’s background is in Environmental Science and Water Treatment. She has been working at the same Water Treatment Company for 20 years, first in the laboratory, followed by providing water treatment trainings, and now as the Vice President of a department. Other than water quality, her passions also include transparency and access to local information, making the WayCAM board of directors an ideal home.
Treasurer
Jon Ward
Prior to moving to Wayland in 1999, Jonathan's career started at KBPI-FM in Denver as an engineer's assistant. During that time, an internship at Rocky Mountain Public Television (KRMA-TV) led to a job as a master control and tape room operator. Concurrently, he was also a MC operator at Jones Intercable and an engineer at Denver Uplink. Next up was a position in Durham NC at WTVD-TV (ABC affiliate) as a photographer. 2 years later, Jon moved to Boise and accepted a position at KTVB-TV (NBC affiliate) where he was an audio tech, graphics operator, technical director and news director.
Currently, Jon is a computer network engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with an emphasis on IPTV, physical security, video and cable television systems. He is also currently Chief Engineer at Dean College Telecom/WGAO-FM, where he has completely the renovated the television and radio facilities, transitioning to high definition video production, digital editing and IP based media storage. WGAO also gained an automation system and a 24 track-recording studio.
Director
Riley Starr
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