We strengthen, include, and serve our diverse audiences and each other, fostering growth and empowering individuals. We are committed to cultivating partnerships with suppliers, local organizations, and the neighborhood communities we share.
Supplier Diversity
GBH generates both economic and social impact by fostering relationships with local and national suppliers who represent the markets we serve and the communities where we live.
*GBH measures 10.1% compared to an industry average of 3.6% according to supplier.io's
2023 Supplier Diversity Benchmarking Report
Boston Public Library
Our BPL Studio breaks down walls between the public and the media. Audience members can see how our news and feature programs are produced; ask questions; meet the Mayor or the Governor in person; and interact with our hosts. We also hand the mic over to the community to amplify their voices about the issues that matter to them and share the stage with artists and performers.
Our work is in and with the community as much as it is about the community, lifting individual voices, stories, and truth. And, as we strive to be truly representative of our communities, we ensure that every voice is heard, seen, valued, and celebrated.Sandra López Burke, Managing Director of Community and Government Relations
Event Gallery
From insightful speaker conversations to interactive learning, to moments of celebration, GBH is always hosting exciting events to bring our community together. Take a look below to see some of our highlights:
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Members of the Office of Inclusion & Equity and Catalyst (GBH’s BIPOC Employee Resource Group) gather with Western Massachusetts artist and educator Don Blanton at the close of a Juneteenth event.
Lenny Underwood
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NOVA’s Science & Equity Editor Krystnell Storr speaks to an audience of GBH staff about affinity bias and how she equips her colleagues to anticipate and counterpoise instances where affinity bias could unintentionally play a hand in influencing various content projects.
Meredith Nierman / GBH
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The Office of Inclusion & Equity along with two of its Employee Resource Groups, Connected (for Beginnings, Belonging and Beyond) and Catalyst (for BIPOC employees), hosts its first “Transferring the Knowledge” event where a tenured GBH employee has a back-and-forth about their experiences, memories, and lessons with a junior employee.
Meredith Nierman / GBH
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When launching GBH’s Self-ID campaign, an effort to more accurately capture how GBH employees self-identify, the Office of Inclusion & Equity asked GBH staff to fill in the blank, “I identify as _____.”
GBH's Tim Mangini smiles while holding up a sign reading " . . blessed to work with amazing people!" / GBH Creative
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Members of GBH moderate and participate in a panel during “SOULfully Textured," a celebration of naturally textured hair that takes place on Martha's Vineyard, and which was founded by a GBH employee.
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GBH's Land Acknowledgement Committee, officially formed in April 2022, worked for a year to develop a Land Acknowledgement for the organization. This research led to the creation of GBH’s Land Acknowledgement and Commitment to Actions which commits GBH to working with Indigenous people to find the ways in which GBH as an organization can culturally honor them and tell their stories. Here, the Land Acknowledgement Committee shares at an all-staff meeting the journey around creating the Land Acknowledgement and Commitment to Actions.
Leah C. Abrams
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GBHers engage in an affinity bias activity organized by the Office of Inclusion & Equity in partnership with GBH’s IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility) Council.
Meredith Nierman / GBH
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GBH’s Chief Inclusion & Equity Officer Yemisi Oloruntola-Coates and NEPM (New England Public Media) President Matt Abramovitz join the local TV program “Mass Appeal” to discuss the WORLD documentary “The Cost of Inheritance” which explores the complex history of reparations in the United States of America.
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GBH’s Chief Inclusion & Equity Officer Yemisi Oloruntola-Coates moderates a panel at Springfield College and hosted by NEPM (New England Public Media) in a packed auditorium with local academics and participants in the WORLD film “The Cost of Inheritance” a documentary exploring the complex history of reparations in the United States of America.
Lenny Underwood
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A perpetually long line of Pride for the People parade attendees queue to spin the GBH prize wheel.
Meredith Nierman / GBH
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Surrounded by a small gallery of artwork by Western Massachusetts artist and educator Don Blanton, GBH staff gather during a Juneteenth celebration hosted by the Office of Inclusion & Equity and Catalyst (GBH’s BIPOC Employee Resource Group) to listen to Mr. Blanton in discussion with GBH News’ Executive Editor Lee Hill.
Lenny Underwood
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Prism (GBH’s LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group) hosts a panel highlighting LGBTQ+ stories from WORLDs “Stories from the Stage,” a show in which ordinary people share their extraordinary experiences. A member of the Prism Leadership Team is joined by podcast-host and show participant, Reverend Irene Monroe and “Stories from the Stage” Co-Executive Producer and Creator Patricia Alvarado Núñez.
Meredith Nierman / GBH
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Members and allies of Prism (GBH’s LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group) walk through the streets of Boston during the Boston Pride For the People Pride Parade where GBH served as the exclusive public media sponsor.
Meredith Nierman / GBH
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President & CEO Susan Goldberg opens up GBH’s annual Día de los Muertos event, hosted by the Office of Inclusion & Equity and Catalyst (GBH’s BIPOC Employee Resource Group), where GBHers gather to celebrate the lives of loved ones and colleagues who have passed.
Meredith Nierman
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Local disability organization Vinfen hosted their 17th Annual Disability Film Festival at GBH. Donna Danielewski, GBH’s Executive Director of Accessibility, delivered opening remarks to the 200+ guests who attended the event, which was made inclusive and accessible through the tireless and thorough work of GBH staff.
Darlene DeVita
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The Office of Inclusion & Equity welcomed Dr. Megan Gerhardt to GBH for a keynote address on Gentelligence, a strategy of leveraging generational diversity in the workplace.
Meredith Nierman / GBH
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GBH News’ Executive Editor Lee Hill interviews Western Massachusetts artist and educator Don Blanton during a Juneteenth event hosted by the Office of Inclusion & Equity and GBH’s BIPOC Employee Resource Group, Catalyst.
Lenny Underwood
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Two GBHers discuss a prompt during an Office of Inclusion & Equity activity.
Meredith Nierman / GBH
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GBH’s All Access Council–a group dedicated to becoming involved in Foundation-wide strategies addressing both visible and non-apparent disabilities–and their allies attend Disability Pride Night at Fenway Park to cheer on the Boston Red Sox.
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GBH teamed up with the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus to sponsor “Momentum: Inclusion!” an evening of discussions around equity and inclusion in government and education, and the private sector. GBH’s Chief Inclusion & Equity Officer Yemisi Oloruntola-Coates moderated one panel hosted by GBH’s Forum Network.
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Members of the Hamilton-Garrett drumline perform in GBH’s Brighton office during a Juneteenth celebration hosted by the Office of Inclusion & Equity and Catalyst (GBH’s BIPOC Employee Resource Group).
Elizabeth Friar
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On the first day of Black History Month, GBH launched its new foundation-wide initiative Reckoning + Repair to a standing-room-only crowd at GBH. There, they discussed one of the nation’s most unanswered questions: whether and how to make reparations. The event highlighted the work of WORLD’s powerful film The Cost of Inheritance: An America ReFramed Special and GBH News’ seven-part podcast “What Is Owed?”
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Molly of Denali Creative Producer Yatibaey Evans reads from a Molly of Denali book to a number of children gathered at the Springfield Museum in Western Massachusetts for the “Molly of Denali: An Alaskan Adventure,” interactive traveling exhibit.
Yemisi Oloruntola-Coates
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The FRONTLINE Team, featuring Editor-in-Chief & Executive Producer Raney Aronson-Roth along with members of other GBH National Productions units and the Office of Inclusion & Equity, at the Tribeca Film Festival to premiere Un(resolved), a multiplatform experience examining a federal effort to grapple with United States of America’s legacy of racist killings.
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Chief Inclusion & Equity Officer Yemisi Oloruntola-Coates welcomes guests to the Embrace Ideas Festival, a yearly celebration of ideas grounded in arts, culture and public scholarship. GBH worked with community partner Embrace Boston to organize a day of panels and discussions at the GBH Boston studio around the topic of reparations.
Meredith Nierman
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Employee Resource Group Leadership Team members share a little more about what they do and who they are with the employees at GBH’s Employee Resource Fair.
Leah C. Abrams
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Keith Woods, Chief Diversity Officer at NPR, speaks to a packed house of GBHers about what public media stations around the country can and are doing to elevate diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Meredith Nierman / GBH
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Cameo George, Executive Producer of GBH’s AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, moderates a panel at the NAACP Convention about AMERICAN EXPERIENCE’s film The Busing Battleground.
Yemisi Olortuntola-Coates
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Members of Catalyst (GBH’s BIPOC Employee Resource Group) attend the NAACP Convention as ambassadors for GBH, answering questions about GBH’s culture and content.
Nikki Cole
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GBH’s Chief Inclusion & Equity Officer Yemisi Olortuntola-Coates moderates “The Color of Public Media: Leadership Edition” panel, featuring GBH News’ Executive Editor Lee Hill, at the National Association of Hispanic (NAHJ) and National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Conference.
Leah C. Abrams
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Members of IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility) Council discuss their experiences serving on the Council and the impacts of their participation on their work with GBH President & CEO Susan Goldberg.
Meredith Nierman
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Nieisha Deed, a local mental health advocate from Roxbury, Massachusetts, speaks to GBH staff at an event hosted by GBH’s All Access Council, a group dedicated to becoming involved in Foundation-wide strategies addressing both visible and non-apparent disabilities.
Paula Hudson
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Pairs of employees in animated conversations face one another while seated in chairs spaced throughout the large atrium.
Paula Hudson
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Chief Inclusion & Equity Officer Yemisi Oloruntola-Coates in conversation with Eman Ansari, a Palestinian woman, and Guy Ben-Aharon, an Israeli man, about navigating crises and disagreement while fostering friendship and recognizing one another’s dignity.
Meredith Nierman / GBH
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Members of GBH's Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Council and the Office of Inclusion & Equity gather together to action plan around GBH's 2024 Culture Assessment Survey (CAS). Operating as the official Culture Assessment Survey Team (CAST), the IDEA Council found engaging and meaningful ways to encourage their colleagues to take the 2024 CAS.
Meredith Nierman / GBH
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