Board of Directors

Justin A. Petty holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Production and Engineering from Berklee College of Music and a Master of Science in Broadcast Administration and Television Management from Boston University. He is the youngest and first Tenured Professor of Broadcast Media Technology at Roxbury Community College, where he chairs the Department of Technology. Mr. Petty resides in Roxbury, MA.

Reggie Lofton, Vice President

Reggie Lofton holds an Associate Degree in Video Services from Berklee College of Music. For the last 35 years, Mr. Lofton has devoted himself to positively impacting the Berklee College community and is currently the Director of Video Services. He joined the Board in 2017. Presently, Mr. Lofton resides with his family in Framingham, MA.

Susan M. O’Connor, Treasurer

Susan O’Connor, the former Executive Director of the Timothy Smith Network (TSN), has over 25 years of banking experience, working for BankBoston and City-Corp in New York. Over the past 12 years, Ms. O’Connor and TSN have generously supported BNN with computers and hardware for the BNN’s media lab. She owns a consulting company, O’Connor& Crew. Ms. O’Connor resides in North Easton, MA.

Thato Mwosa, Clerk

Thato Mwosa, an award-winning filmmaker and multifaceted artist, currently teaches television production at Brookline High School. She owns Tuli Art. Ms. Mwosa joined the Board in 2012 and now resides with her family in Milton, MA.

Peter Cheung, Director

Peter Cheung was appointed to the Board in 2021; he has over 25 years of video production experience. Mr. Cheung, a community leader with project management experience coordinating logistics for large-scale events, speaks five languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Dutch, and Papiamento. Mr. Cheung is a Jamaica Plain resident.

Mike Lynch, Director

As NATOA’s Legislative & Regulatory Affairs Director, Mike is responsible for advancing policy positions, advocacy, legislative and strategic development, as well as for tracking and analyzing federal and state legislative and regulatory telecommunications initiatives.

Mike joined NATOA as legislative director in January 2023 because it afforded the best of both worlds by allowing him to continue to advocate for the broadband & equity issues that all of us in local government care about on a national level. A longtime board member, past president and treasurer of the NATOA, Mike’s worked closely with local government cable and PEG folks in cities, towns and counties across the country to address issues like PEG Access programming and funding, Wireless Siting, broadband planning and funding, Digital Equity & Inclusion, cable licensing, and other matters at the nexus of local government telecom, communications, and right-of-way policies.

Mike had been the longtime Director of Broadband & Digital Equity (cable guy) for the City of Boston, MA, since the early days when dial-up was still cutting edge. He was responsible for all aspects of Digital Equity & Inclusion efforts; licensing, compliance and consumer advocacy for wireless, broadband and cable providers; PEG programming and funding support; and he was a longtime partner to Boston Neighborhood Network Media (BNN) and Tech Goes Home (TGH.)

Mike’s been active in local gov broadband issues through the National League of Cities’ Information Technology Committee, Public Technology Institute and the Alliance for Community Media. On the local level, he serves at the Boston Latin School Association, the Roche Community Center, the Massachusetts Open Water Swimming Association and the Madison Park Vocational Tech High School’s Advisory Board. He supports the Mass. Municipal Association, MassAccess, Mass. Chapter of NATOA, Boston Centers for Youth and Families, and the WGBH Community Advisory Board.

Mike’s married with 2 adult children and a new granddaughter, Maeve!

Rachel Miselman, Director

Cindy Severino, Director

Emeritus Board of Directors

Sarah-Ann Shaw, Director

Board of Directors