Director and General Manager
WOUB, Athens, Ohio

Carolyn Bailey Lewis is serving a first term as a professional trustee on the APTS Board. Carolyn is Director and General Manager of the WOUB Center for Public Media, Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

Since Carolyn took the helm of the WOUB Center for Public Media in 1997, the Center has built and maintained myriad university and community partnerships. Carolyn has positioned the Center as a technology partner with eTech\Ohio, and as an education partner with the Educational Technology for Southeastern Ohio (eTSEO). She is also leading WOUB’s technology, operations, programming and communication teams through the DTV transition, expanding television broadcast services from one to eight locally programmed channels.

Carolyn is a National Educational Telecommunications Association Board member, serves on the executive committee of the University Licensee Association, and is a member of the APTS Capitol Hill Day Advisory Committee. She is a former chair of both the Public Broadcasting Service Advertising and Promotion Advisory Council and the NETA Public Information Council. Carolyn is a consultant on issues of disability, and serves on several university licensee program review teams. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Ohio University School of Telecommunications, and is the secretary for the Ohio Educational Television Stations’ general managers group.

Carolyn is the recipient of the APTS Outstanding Grassroots Advocate Award, the SECA (NETA) Award for Promotional Excellence, the Perley I. Reed School of Journalism Award for Professional Achievement, the West Virginia Women’s Commission Professional Award, and the Ohio University Outstanding Administrator. She is an advisor to the Ohio University Black Student Communication Caucus, and a member of the Ohio University Honorary Degree Committee, Administrative Senate, and the President’s Advisory Committee on Disability.

Carolyn is a graduate of West Virginia University in Morgantown, where she received her BA and MA degrees from the P. I. Reed School of Journalism. She earned a Ph.D. in June 2007 (while working full-time) from Ohio University’s Scripps College of Communication with emphases on Health Communication and Organizational Communication. She is the mother of a grown son and daughter, and has two grandchildren.