WASHINGTON—Seven new members have been elected to the board of directors of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Leadership Foundation, NAB announced.

The NAB Leadership Foundation works with broadcast leaders and those who wish to be. It offers training programs, career development resources and awards aimed at strengthening the industry by developing the next generation of broadcast leaders, says the foundation’s website. 

The new board members are: Artie Altman, executive vice president of The Katz Television Group, Katz Media Group; Jan Goldstein, Gray Television’s senior vice president of Human Resources; Brian Lawlor, president of Local Media for The E.W. Scripps Company; DeDe Lea, executive vice president of Global Public Policy and Government Relations at ViacomCBS; Wendy McMahon, president of ABC Owned Television Stations Group; Ralph Oakley, president and CEO of Quincy Media Inc.; and Gayle Troberman, the executive vice president and chief marketing officer of iHeartMedia.

More information is available on the NAB Foundation website.

WASHINGTON—Effective immediately, DeDe Lea, the executive vice president of global public policy and government relations for ViacomCBS, has been named to the NAB Television Board of Directors by the TV Board Chair Emily Barr.

At ViacomCBS, Lea oversees all government affairs and public policy work. Prior to the CBS, Viacom merger, Lea had been working as a high-level exec on government affairs with Viacom since 1997. One of her other past roles was as the senior vice president of government relations at NAB.

In addition to her work at ViacomCBS, she currently sits on the board of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the MedStar Washington Hospital Center.

Lea was named as one of the Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America by Black Enterprise Magazine in 2019. She was also recognized as a Top Lawyer by Cablefax magazine in 2018 and received the 2014 NCTA Vanguard Award for Government and Community Relations.