Keri Pagetta

Keri Pagetta joins the Nashville Public Radio team as its Accounting Specialist, processing accounts payable and receivable and supporting the Finance Department in a variety of ways. She was previously the Director of Operations for Safe Haven Family Shelter. Keri has had a varied career working in the hospitality industry both in New York and Nashville, as a high school Spanish teacher in MNPS, and as a studio teacher on ABC’s Nashville. As an actor and voice-over artist, she has voiced characters for Veggie Tales, starred in commercials for the Tennessee Lottery and Dollar General, and appeared in numerous short films and theater productions. She was the 2015 recipient of the Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship for Acting (Theater) and a winner of a Nashville Scene 2021 Best of Nashville Critics' Pick for her work as the producer, director and lead actor in The Passion of Ethel Rosenberg (a Radio Play) podcast.

Keri has a master’s in Teaching and Learning from Lipscomb University, a B.A. in Sociology from Montclair University, and a certificate in Immersion Spanish Language Study in Mexico and Guatemala. Keri lives in the Donelson area with her husband, twin daughters, her mom and Becky the Cat. She is a believer in, and sustaining member of, public media. Among her favorite quotes through which she draws inspiration is, “If we have no peace, it's because we have forgotten we belong to each other." – Mother Teresa.