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PBS Board of Directors

 

PBS is governed by a 27-member Board of Directors that manages the property, affairs and business of the Corporation. The Board meets for regularly scheduled meetings four times a year, and its committees meet as necessary. Meetings of the Board and its committees are open to the public, though some portions of those meetings may be held in closed session.

The Directors are responsible for governing and setting policy for PBS. In total, the Board comprises 27 members: 14 Professional Directors (station managers); 12 General Directors (outside directors); and the PBS President. PBS Board members serve three-year terms, without pay.

Dolores Fernandez Alonso

President & CEO
South Florida PBS
Boynton Beach, FL 

Maxine Clark

CEO
Clark-Fox Family Foundation
Clayton, MO

Mark G. Contreras

President & CEO
Connecticut Public
Hartford, CT

Rob Dunlop

President & CEO
Cascade Public Media
Seattle, WA

Mildred García

President
American Association of State Colleges and Universities
Washington, D.C.

Chuck Hagel

Former Secretary of Defense and Nebraska Senator
Washington, D.C.

Shae Hopkins

Executive Director & CEO

KET
Lexington, KY

Marvin Irby

CFO & CPO
National Restaurant Association
Washington, D.C.

Larry Irving, Chair

Principal, The Irving Group
Washington, DC

Michael Isip

President & CEO
KQED
San Francisco, CA

Franz Joachim

General Manager & CEO
New Mexico PBS
Albuquerque, NM

Gunjan Kedia

President, US Bancorp
Minneapolis, MN

Paula Kerger

President
Public Broadcasting Service
Arlington, VA

Carla McCabe

President & CEO
WVIA Public Media
Scranton, PA

Sandra Cordova Micek

President & CEO
Window To The World Communications, Inc.
Chicago, IL

Greg Petrowich

President & CEO

WFYI/Indianapolis, IN

Jorge Plasencia

Co-founder, Chairman, & CEO, Republica Havas

Miami, FL

Courtney Pledger, Vice Chair

Executive Director & CEO
Arkansas PBS
Conway, AR

Vivian Riefberg

Professor of Practice
University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Washington, D.C.

Catherine Robb, Vice Chair

Media Attorney & Counsel
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Austin, TX

Geoff Sands

EVP Corporate Strategy
Comcast
Rye, NY

Tina Sharkey

Co-founder and Former CEO
Brandless
Mill Valley, CA

Amy Shaw

President and CEO
Nine PBS
 St. Louis, MO

Lisa Trapani Shumate

Associate Vice President and General Manager
Houston Public Media
 Houston, TX

Jayme Swain

President & CEO
VPM and the Virginia Foundation for Public Media
Richmond, VA

Holden Thorp

Editor-in-Chief, Science Family of Journals
Washington, D.C.

Ed Ulman

President & CEO
Alaska Public Media
Anchorage, AK