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WHQR’s Annual Fundraising Luncheon featuring NPR’s Tamara Keith

WHQR’s Annual Fundraising Luncheon returns Friday, June 5, 2026, at noon in the Hotel Ballast, featuring special guest, NPR’s Tamara Keith.

Tamara Keith is a Senior White House Correspondent at NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. She is also a regular contributor to PBS NewsHour, appearing each week as part of its Politics Monday segment. Keith chronicled the final years of the Obama administration, covered Hillary Clinton's failed bid for president and threw herself into documenting the first Trump administration, from policy made by tweet to the president's COVID diagnosis, January 6th and the present. For a full bio click here.

Join us at a WHQR table by clicking the button above. We ask for a suggested donation of $125 or more per guest at the luncheon, or a host may choose to cover the $1,250 goal for the table and invite friends (payable by cash, check or credit card). An invitation to host a table and more information are available by emailing Mary Bradley at mbradley@whqr.org.

Corporate sponsorships are also available! It's the perfect way to promote your business in front of approximately 500 of our supporters. Click on the PDF below for more information or contact Jeff Hunter with questions.

The luncheon will be in the Grand Ballroom at the Hotel Ballast in downtown Wilmington on Friday June 5th, beginning at 12 noon and finishing by 1:30pm.

WHQR Public Radio was started 42 years ago to meet community needs and strives to offer news, music, entertainment and interaction to expand knowledge, encourage artistic appreciation, engage our community and promote civil discourse.

Thank you to our sponsors: North Carolina Community Foundation, Pathfinder, and UNCW Public and International Affairs!

Mary Bradley moved to Wilmington from Los Angeles, CA in May 2007 with her husband Frank and twin baby daughters, Maggie and Kate. In California, Mary had been Drive Director and the producer of Elvis Mitchell's nationally syndicated public radio interview program "The Treatment" for public radio station KCRW for ten years. Mary was raised in Rhode Island and graduated from Boston University. Mary recently served as President of the Board of Directors of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Cape Fear Chapter.