Andrea Capere

Andrea Capere serves as Director of Community Relations at Thurston Community Media in Olympia, Washington, and as a member of the ACM Northwest Region board. Her work connects community outreach, producer engagement, and local access programming at a Washington state station with regional field leadership through the northwest network. She received the ACM's Emerging Leader Award in 2017, early recognition for community media leadership that has continued through her board service and station work.

Thurston Community Media serves the Olympia area as a public, educational, and government access organization, and Andrea's community relations role focuses on the outreach and relationship-building that keeps a station connected to the producers and organizations it was built to support.

Her work reflects the engagement function in community media centers, where the station's value depends on whether community members know it exists, feel welcome to use it, and have the support they need to produce programming that reflects their own lives and concerns.