Meghan O'Rourke

Meghan O’Rourke is a longtime community media leader and co-director of the CCTV Center for Media & Democracy in Burlington, Vermont. Her work with CCTV and Town Meeting TV has spanned production, training, outreach, civic programming, and organizational leadership. By 2008 she was serving as CCTV’s training and outreach coordinator, and she later became Town Meeting TV’s channel director before moving into her current co-director role. cctv.org

Throughout her tenure, O’Rourke has helped residents, nonprofit organizations, public officials, and young people participate in local media. She has hosted and produced public-affairs programs, moderated candidate forums and election coverage, supported volunteers and community producers, and developed media training, internships, and youth programs. Her work has also included representing Town Meeting TV before local governments and helping connect community media with civic information and public participation. www2.burlingtonvt.gov

O’Rourke has also played a significant role in preserving Vermont’s community media history. She has directed National Endowment for the Humanities-supported projects focused on assessing, digitizing, and improving public access to CCTV’s extensive audiovisual archive, which documents decades of local government, elections, demonstrations, cultural events, and community-produced programming. She has additionally served as Vermont’s representative to the Alliance for Community Media Northeast Region, extending her work from local production and education to preservation and service to the broader community media field.