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Barbara Hamm Lee Honored With Lenora Mathews Lifetime Achievement Award

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Barbara Hamm Lee, executive producer and host of Another View, was selected to receive the Lenora Mathews Lifetime Achievement Award from Volunteer Hampton Roads and was honored during their recent Volunteer Achievement Awards program.

Barbara is an award-winning journalist and television/radio host. She is an expert at navigating the difficult terrain of race relations. She specializes in diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice programming and leadership training for government agencies, schools, non-profits, and corporations seeking racial cultural change.

Barbara has held management positions with: Communications Technologies; Prince Georges County, Maryland Police Department; and Hamm and Fox Communications. She was a consultant to the National Federation of Community Broadcasters' African American Public Radio Stations Initiative, consulting with 26 African American public radio stations on compliance, governance, development, programming and community engagement. For eleven years, Barbara held a variety of leadership positions with WHRO Public Media.

Currently, she is owner of Sharing Info, LLC., a media/communications/DEIJ consulting company that assists organizations to strategically maximize media potential, market effectively, and protect their brand.

Barbara's dedication to meaningful dialogue and community connection reflects the very best of public media.

We are so proud to celebrate you, Barbara!