William Dahlberg
Executive Director
Will has been WBHM's Executive Director and General Manager since 2022, having previously served twice as the interim-Executive Director. He first joined WBHM in 2012 as an unpaid news intern while finishing graduate school, later becoming the Membership Manager in 2013, and the Deputy Director in 2018. In leading WBHM and the Gulf States Newsroom, Will is focused on the the future of the organization and how public media and the organization can best serve the entire heart of Alabama. He has a strong commitment to increasing the organization's financial sustainability, growing the diversity of the WBHM team and the audiences it serves, as well as increasing collaboration and resource sharing across all of public media.
Will is proud to come from a blue-collar background and has spent time in a variety of professions in the past several decades prior to WBHM. He has worked as an orderly at a morgue, dishwasher, landscaper, pouring concrete sidewalks, bartender and pizza chef, archival assistant, director of first year housing at a university, pharmaceutical industry researcher, newspaper reporter, and freelance radio reporter/producer. His very first job as a piano and organ technician in Vermont is where he first encountered public radio and made his first membership donation to support his local station back in 2000.
Born in upstate New York, Will spent much of his life growing up in Vermont before going to Hiram College in Ohio and graduate school at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Will currently resides in West Homewood with his wife, one teenager, three dogs, and a parakeet that his wife rescued from Lowes. When he isn't talking about all things WBHM, Will is an avid reader, loves watching movies (particularly at Sidewalk Film Center & Cinema), listening to podcasts, attending Birmingham Barons and Legion games, and exploring his local community. Will currently serves on the board of historic Oak Hill Cemetery and is a Citizen Archivist volunteer with the National Archives. He is a longtime member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
Will can be reached at 205-934-2264 or at [email protected]