Board of Directors

Luis Mendoza – Board Chair

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Luis Mendoza is originally from Michoacan, Mexico. He moved to Oregon when he was 15 and received a GED from University of Oregon. As a native of Mexico, English is his second language. As a migrant worker, he worked in the fields picking berries. He also worked in plant nurseries, canneries, seed companies, and construction. Luis started his career in manufacturing. He went from not knowing anything, to becoming a Mechanical Engineer, in the course of 17 years. He learned new skills, moved to different departmental positions, becoming the lead. He managed people from different backgrounds, all without a degree. He became involved with Capital Community Media, formally known as CCTV, in 2015 as a volunteer. Within a month, he was creating a Spanish show with his wife, where they interviewed local community leaders, politicians, doctors, singers, actors, artists, teachers and more. Eventually, they created another show where they had local Hispanic musicians come and share their music. In 2016, Luis was hired by CCTV as the Community Facilitator and just recently celebrated his seventh anniversary. His job includes teaching classes to help people develop a show from beginning to end, working with them side by side until they feel confident to do it on their own. Luis has also worked with youth that are in correctional facilities, to learn video and audio while sharing his personal story, to help them believe they can accomplish anything they want; that if he can do it, they can do it. Luis is currently the treasurer for the Northwest Region of the Alliance for Community Media. His goal is to become an Executive Director in the future, to keep helping the Community he is in, and to be a role model to someone.

Melissa Salazar – Vice Chair

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Melissa graduated from Pacific Northwest College of Art and has worked as an educator and professional mentor throughout the Portland Metro area. With over a decade of experience working with adolescent youth in preparation for their post secondary plans Melissa sought out opportunities to expand her work to all ages. Currently, she is the Production Cohort Facilitator at Open Signal, Portland Community Media. In this role she mentors community producers 16 years and up through a five month program that teaches them how to use an industry standard camera, lighting and networking with others through the completion of their media projects.

Melissa also serves on the National Alliance for Community Media Nomination Committee and Alliance for Community Media Pacific Northwest Region board. She believes in the future of community media and looks to learn from others with the same passion and drive to preserve public access media.

She has recently accepted an invitation to serve on the board of directors for Teens Grounded, a youth leadership program in her hometown in Texas. Her dedication to be in service to her community has led her to also serve within the Adult Congenital Heart Association as a peer 2 peer heart mentor as she was born with a rare congenital heart disease.

Kelly Frank – Secretary

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Kelly Frank started his media career working part-time air operations for Wyoming Public Television, the PBS station that covers the entire state of Wyoming. It is in that position that he also learned to run cameras and studio equipment. After three years, Kelly took a full-time position at the college that owned the license to Wyoming PBS under the Star Schools grant, a program building two-way interactive classrooms to service areas that otherwise would not be able to attain more advanced classes due to geographical and population obstacles. While in the position, Kelly honed his video techniques and learned editing skills. He also started the college’s PEG access channel from scratch. This position later transferred into the colleges TV / Radio / Film department where Kelly continued his video skills and running the PEG station, edited audio files for air and hosted a highly rated show for the college’s radio station. He worked at that position for a total of 18 years until he moved to Oregon. He currently works as the Public Access Technician at TVCTV in Beaverton, where he is the public point person from teaching the public courses to programming the shows on air for the three public channels TVCTV runs. He has been with TVCTV since 2017. Kelly also produces and voice-over hosts his own program which airs on TVCTV and many other PEG channels across the nation.

Suzanne Moneymaker Riley – Member

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Is a writer-director based in Portland, Oregon and has been an active member of Open Signal for many years. During that time, she has written and directed two short films, contributed to over a dozen community projects, and built connections with fellow creatives through groups like Women in Film. She also completed their first short film as a director with the support of the Catalyst Film Collective, which was an incredible community-building experience where over 80% of the cast and crew identified as women or BIPOC.

Alongside of their creative work, they have also been a business owner for more than 20 years. That experience has given them skills in leadership and strategic planning that I believe would serve the board well. I’m also passionate about expanding access to media for women and the BIPOC community, where we still see too little representation.