WilliNet-TV Hires Teri Yuan As new Executive Director

08:44AM / Wednesday, June 17, 2026Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The WilliNet Board of Directors announced Theresa "Teri" Yuan as the next Executive Director of WilliNet, Community TV for Williamstown.

Yuan is a northern Berkshire resident who brings 15 years of executive and operations leadership experience building mission-driven organizations and public facing programs.

As COO of Equality Labs, Yuan led operations for a scaling civil rights, education, and advocacy organization. Yuan produced and co-hosted "en(gender)ed" podcast and describes herself as a storyteller but:

"I'm strongest in roles where the work requires both vision and follow-through: building partnerships, running day-to-day operations, supporting creators, and steadily improving systems so the organization can do more of what it exists to do."

After a competitive job search this spring, WilliNet Board Chair Mary Strout reported:

"The Board is elated to find someone with Teri's background in media storytelling, and community programming to further WilliNet's mission as an avenue of free speech for the people of Williamstown to engage, connect and create."

Teri Yuan starts on June 22.

"I am excited to help WilliNet step into its next chapter- strengthening civic life in Williamstown while making the station even more accessible, relevant, and energizing for the people it serves," Yuan said.

Yuan will overlap with current Director Deb Dane, who is retiring on June 30 after 20 years at the helm. Dane's leadership was recognized in 2021 when WilliNet received the Scarborough Salomon Flynt Community Service Award in recognition of "extraordinary dedication, excellence, and integrity in service to Williamstown."

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Williamstown Select Board Plans Off-Camera Evaluation of Town Manager

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:24AM / Friday, October 09, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board plans to take extraordinary measures to avoid having its discussion of the town manager's performance recorded by the town's Public, Educational and Government cameras.

At its Sept. 28 meeting, the board decided to hold a special meeting in a room not covered by WilliNet cameras to complete its annual evaluation process of Town Manager Robert Menicocci.

Chair Peter Beck said that while the evaluation is "absolutely" to be conducted in an open meeting, the board could follow a process similar to the off site, unrecorded meetings that past Select Boards have characterized as "retreats," a term not contemplated by or included in the commonwealth's Open Meeting Law.

The current board met on June 29 for what it characterized as a "planning session" where no formal votes were taken. That meeting was held outside of Town Hall, at the new fire station on Main Street, in a room equipped with audio and video recording equipment that the Select Board chose not to use.

At the Sept. 28 meeting, one board member indicated that an unrecorded meeting was preferable to discuss the annual evaluation of the one town employee supervised by the board.

"I'd like to do it without all the Willinet stuff," Stephanie Boyd said in a discussion toward the end of a two-hour meeting. "I think it's more conducive to conversation."

With the board expected to meet just once in October — its "regular" meeting date coincides with Indigenous Peoples Day on Oct. 12 — Beck suggested that the panel could find a date for a special meeting, suggesting the third Monday of the month, Oct. 19.

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