Sue Schardt leads AIR’s network of 1300+ producers in 47 states and 30 countries. She is executive producer of Localore, a ground-breaking, producer-led initiative designed to build public radio and television stations’ innovation capacity and take public media to more Americans. She is a 2014-15 National Arts Strategies fellow; has served on the NPR Board as a member of the Distribution and Interconnect Committee; is an advisor to Native Voice One, the Native American radio service; and is an artistic advisor to NPR’s From the Top. Schardt is a long-standing live music DJ on MIT’s freeform station, WMBR, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.