[1] The organization produces programs for local and national audiences, including The Brian Lehrer Show, Radiolab, More Perfect, On The Media, Nancy, The New Yorker Radio Hour, Trump, Inc., Death, Sex & Money, Snap Judgment, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, All Of It, The Takeaway, Caught, The United States of Anxiety, Aria Code, Carnegie Hall Live, and 2 Dope Queens, reaching an average audience of 23.4 million people each month.

[6] She graduated with a BA in history, magna cum laude, from Wesleyan University and earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management in 1987.

Walker initiated and nurtured innovative programming in the news, music, culture and talk categories, including audio collaborations with The New Yorker, ProPublica and the BBC.

[15] She transformed the local newsroom into one of the largest in the New York media market and established stable funding for other programming developed in-house at NYPR.

[16] In late 2017, charges of sexual harassment at NYPR came to light, with allegations leveled specifically against longtime host John Hockenberry, who had left the station earlier that year.

[17] An investigation by an independent law firm commissioned by the NYPR Board concluded that there was no evidence of “pervasive discrimination” and found that “harassment complaints were investigated when they reached senior management or Human Resources, and that senior management reacted promptly and strongly where violations were found.” The NYPR Board expressed its support for Walker and acknowledged her efforts to improve the organization’s policies and processes.