Karen Hayden

Karen Hayden is Executive Director of Methuen Community Studios in Methuen, Massachusetts, and serves as Treasurer of the ACM national board. Her work connects local community media leadership, public access operations, nonprofit management, regional collaboration, and national stewardship of the community media field, combining station management with the financial oversight of the national organization.

Methuen Community Studios serves a Massachusetts community with the local programming and civic media services that community media centers provide, and Karen's leadership there reflects the daily work of keeping a small station useful while also contributing organizational capacity to the national field.

Her service as ACM national Treasurer reflects the kind of field leadership that goes unrecognized because it is primarily financial and organizational rather than programmatic, but that is as essential to the field's health as any individual station's work.