Board of Directors

Iowa Public Radio is governed by a board of directors consisting of one appointee of the president of each of the Regents’ universities and two community representatives appointed by the Board of Regents.

The Iowa Public Radio Board of Directors holds regular meetings in Des Moines, Ames, Cedar Falls and Iowa City.
 

Kay K. Runge, Chair:

Kay K. Runge recently retired from her role as director of the Des Moines Public Library and now shares her library buildings, management and fundraising expertise as a consultant with Library Consulting, P.A. Past library director jobs have included Scott County Library System and Davenport Public Library. She has a degree from Iowa State University with a B.S. in History Education and from the University of Iowa with a Master's Degree in Library Science.
 
Kay was president of the Public Library Association in 2000. The American Library Trustee Advocates and the American Library Association named her to the National Advocacy Honor Roll in 2000. She also was named 2000 Member of the Year of the Iowa Library Association where she served as president in 1983 and she received the Iowa Educational Media Association Intellectual Freedom Award in 1984.
 
In addition she has been a guest lecturer at the University of Iowa Library School and serves on the University's Library School Advisory Board. Her community work includes or has included Wells Fargo Bank Board; Rotary Club of Des Moines; Des Moines Public Library Foundation Board; Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute; Leadership Iowa; Iowa State University Board of Governors and Operation Downtown Des Moines Board of Directors.

Arthur A. Neu, J.D., LL.M., Vice Chair:

Art Neu is an attorney from Carroll, Iowa who has a long history of public service to the State of Iowa. He served as State Senator from 1967 to 1973 and as Lt. Governor of the State of Iowa from 1973 to 1979.  He served as Mayor for the City of Carroll from 1982 to 1985. He was a member of the Iowa Board of Regents from 1978 to 1984.  He has been a member of the Iowa Board of Corrections since 1999. Member: Carroll County Bar Association; Iowa State Bar Association; and American Bar Association.

Neu received a B.A. in business administration from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1955.   He obtained his J.D. in 1958 from Northwestern University and his LL.M. in taxation from Georgetown Law School in 1961. Before returning to Carroll, he spent three and a half years with the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corp. He was admitted to the Iowa Bar in 1958.

Warren R. Madden, Treasurer:

Warren Madden is vice president for business and finance of Iowa State University. In this capacity, he has been responsible for a wide range of programs involving business and fiscal affairs of the university, including the university's economic development and technology transfer efforts.

As vice president for business and finance, he is responsible for the university's accounting, investments, payroll, human resource services, facilities planning and management, purchasing, public safety, environmental health and safety and risk management operations. He serves on the boards of a number of affiliated university organizations.

Mr. Madden is active professionally in state and federal business organizations. He has served as chair of the Council of Business Affairs of the National Association of State University and Land Grant Colleges. He was a founding member of the University Risk Management and Insurance Association, serving as one of its first presidents. In that capacity, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Council of Higher Education Management Association.

He has also been active in a number of community and service organizations, including the Ames United Way, City of Ames Utility Board, Ames Transit Board and is also past president of the Ames Chamber of Commerce and the Ames Economic Development Commission.

Mr. Madden holds a B.S. degree in engineering from Iowa State University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Steven Parrott, Secretary:

Steve Parrott has been the director of university relations for the University of Iowa since June of 2000, and has worked for the university since 1989 in a number of communication roles. Parrott was previously editor and co-owner of the DeWitt Observer in DeWitt, Iowa. He received a bachelor's degree from Cornell College, Mount Vernon, and also holds a masters degree in journalism from the University of Iowa.

Steve Carignan:

Steve Carignan became the University of Northern Iowa's assistant vice president for educational and sports events center management in March of 2006. Carignan served as executive director of UNI's Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center since 2001. Prior to coming to UNI, he was the director of outreach and development for the Maine Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. He holds a B.A. in history and a B.A. in theatre and dramatic literature, both from Dickinson College. He earned a master's in theatre from the University of Maine.

Steve also served as IPR's acting executive director from June 30, 2008 until January 20, 2009 after IPR's first executive director, Cindy Browne, stepped down due to a progressive health condition.