Jennifer Dynes

Jennifer Dynes received the ACM's Jewell Ryan-White Award for Cultural Diversity in 2015, recognized for her work at MetroEast Community Media in Gresham, Oregon. MetroEast serves the east Portland metro communities of Gresham, Troutdale, Fairview, and Wood Village, and Jennifer's work contributed to the station's commitment to multicultural representation and community participation in a part of the metro area with significant cultural diversity and limited mainstream media coverage of local communities.

Her recognition reflected both her specific contributions and MetroEast's broader work as one of the field's examples of community media that takes inclusion seriously in a diverse urban community.