Our Team
Lizzy Hazeltine
Director
Lizzy Hazeltine helps teams solve real problems, grow revenue to sustain themselves, and deepen their service to their communities. She applies hard-won lessons from local media, early-stage venture capital, and product management to build teams' capacity for service and sustainability. As Director, Lizzy Hazeltine leads the North Carolina Local News Lab Fund’s overall strategy and portfolio, supports funders to maximize their impact, cultivates connections among organizations in the North Carolina news ecosystem, and tracks and amplifies case studies and lessons learned. With the goal of making the Fund and philanthropy more accessible, Lizzy holds open office hours, and especially encourages those who are new to grant seeking to connect. She also coaches teams in various national news transformation programs and supports industry-wide learning around revenue and DEI. Lizzy’s journalism training began at UNC Chapel Hill where she was a Morehead-Cain Scholar.
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Jagmeet Singh Mac
Associate Director
Jagmeet works to support people in flourishing, whether building connections across diverse perspectives or improving access and opportunity. As Associate Director of the North Carolina Local News Lab Fund, he leads capacity strengthening efforts and network weaving among organizations in his home state, while contributing to the Fund's operational resilience.
Jagmeet’s professional experience spans two decades and disciplines from journalism to teaching, people management, sales and communications. Before joining the Fund, he directed a national media team that delivered technology, services, and programming – including acclaimed shows like This American Life, Latino USA and Snap Judgment – to public radio stations across the country. Prior, he managed media and communications for a Sikh rights organization; his work included expanding coverage of Sikhs in hundreds of news outlets, such as the New York Times, the Associated Press and NPR.
Jagmeet has also produced immersive radio and video stories, and he earned his master’s degree as a Roy H. Park Fellow from the UNC School of Media and Journalism.