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Megan Burke is 5th president of the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts

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Megan Burke is the new president and CEO of the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts

Goals include advancing equity and opportunity

A venerable philanthropic organization in the region has a new leader.

Megan Burke was named recently as the fifth president and CEO of the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts.

A resident of West Springfield, Burke previously worked at the Hartford Foundation. She spoke with WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill.

Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.