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MIF Welcomes Three New Board Members

June 24, 2026

Media Impact Funders is delighted to welcome three outstanding leaders to the Media Impact Funders board of directors:

Angelica, Vidya and Marcia bring decades of journalism, media and grantmaking experience to our board and to the field. Their vision and leadership will help strengthen Media Impact Funders as we work to ensure a thriving media ecosystem that serves the public interest.

Thank you to outgoing board member Norris West

We extend our deepest gratitude to Norris West, former Director of Strategic Communications at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, for nine years of meaningful service on the MIF board. Norris expertly stewarded our governance committee and has served as a mentor and champion for so many across the media and philanthropy fields. We’re deeply grateful for his dedication to MIF and our members.

Learn more about the new board members

Angelica Das is the Director of the Reimagine & Rebuild program at Democracy Fund. She has been with Democracy Fund since 2019, where she has led engaged and equitable journalism portfolios to make journalism representative, responsive, and accountable to its communities. At the foundation she has led cutting edge research on media and elections, and racial justice and journalism. In her current role, she is advancing transformative ideas, practices, systems and infrastructure in civil society, government, and media capable of making the democracy we seek a reality for all.

Angelica has a diverse background in consultancy and social impact media. She joined Democracy Fund after working as a Senior Associate with Dot Connector Studio, collaborating with funders, journalists, and experts on research and production for media in service to public good. She was previously associate director at the Center for Media & Social Impact Media. While at CMSI, she produced the annual Media That Matters industry conference, and supported filmmakers, independent media makers, and other creative communities to develop social impact strategies and mitigate risk while exercising free expression. She has over two decades of experience working in nonprofits on communications, operations, and grants management.

Angelica holds a master’s degree in international media from American University’s School of Communication and a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from the University of Rochester.

Vidya Krishnamurthy is vice president and chief of communications and strategic external engagement at the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. In this role, she oversees strategic communications in support of the foundation’s charitable goals, including leadership and counsel on communications-related grantmaking, development and execution of institutional communications strategy, and oversight of internal organization learning.

She joined the foundation in 2015 after nearly a decade with the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C., serving as its first-ever communications director. During that time, she helped the center significantly expand its U.S. and global audience and become one of the most trusted and widely cited sources of nonpartisan information about trends shaping America and the world. She previously served as the communications director of the Alliance for Better Campaigns, a media and democracy public interest group chaired by Walter Cronkite, Jimmy Carter, and Gerald Ford.

Her prior experience cuts across a wide swath of communications specialties, including issues management, media relations and digital content strategy, for organizations in the academic, corporate, labor and education arenas. She has served on the board of the Communications Network, the leading community of social sector and nonprofit communicators, and is an elected member of the Arthur W. Page Society, an association of senior communications executives. She holds a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

Marcia Parker joined The New York Times in June 2022 as Vice President of Philanthropic Partnerships. She leads a team that develops newsroom initiatives that have a shared public service mission that are funded by foundations and in partnership with nonprofits.

Before she joined The Times, Marcia spent more than five years as the publisher and chief operating officer of CalMatters, a nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization that covers California and its state government. Prior to that Marcia worked as an editorial director for Patch’s West Coast local news sites and helped launch the Center for Investigative Reporting’s California Watch site.

She also served as an assistant dean at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and was an adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s San Francisco campus and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

She is the board chair of the Institute for Nonprofit News, and serves on the boards of the New York Times Communities Fund and the Journalism Refugees Education Fund.

Marcia holds a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science from Indiana University.