Rickey Bevington, a veteran Georgia Public Broadcasting host and reporter, is leaving journalism to become the president of The Worlds Affair Council of Atlanta.
She takes over January 1, 2022 for retiring outgoing president Charles Shapiro.
The council, with offices in Buckhead, is a nonpartisan membership organization that works to inspire Atlanta to lead globally and is affiliated with Georgia State University. It holds events such as a virtual discussion about Korean pop culture’s influence on the world Dec. 8 and a wine tasting Dec. 13 with the Consul General of Germany in Atlanta.
”It will be exciting working with the council’s young leaders who are Atlanta’s future leaders,” she said.
Bevington, 42, will also become a teacher at the university’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business though she hasn’t yet decide what classes she will teach.
At GPB, she has been hosting the local portion of NPR’s “All Things Considered” afternoon program on 88.5/WRAS-FM. Over the past 15 years, she has done a raft of hosting jobs for both the radio and TV side including the travel show “Georgia Traveler” and the daily newsmagazine “Georgia Gazette.” She has also been in management.
Her final day at NPR is Dec. 17.
“I will miss informing the people dedicated to public media,” she said. “We do have eon more fund drive before I leave. I’ll miss the fund drives. It’s a joy to remind people to listen!”
A Banard College graduate, she is also a trustee on the Georgia Council for International Visitors and is on the board of The Atlanta Press Club.
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