On June 14, Mary was a featured speaker at the Community Media Summit, a national conference sponsored by the Community Media Workshop, where Mary serves as a board member. Mary moderated a panel entitled "Community News," which featured reporters from the Lawndale News and Radio ARTE from the largely Latino Pilsen neighborhood discussing the specific media needs of low-income communities. The panelists discussed methods how to work with community based outlets to get their voices heard. The next day, Mary sat on a panel entitled "Immigrant and Ethnic Issues in Community Media" with Sandy Close, the executive director of New America Media. This discussion focused on the positive and negative aspects of reaching low-income people through the Internet via services such as Myspace and Youtube.