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Bill has decades of experience in music and management, is committed to the mission of public media, and is passionate about the role WRTI plays in bringing classical music and jazz to listeners throughout the tri-state region and beyond.

Bill is a graduate of Cornell University and has held leadership positions in corporate and foundation relations for Temple University and Cornell. In the private sector he has worked at Chubb and The Equitable in New York City. He has also served on the boards of WYBE and the African-American Jazz Caucus of the International Association for Jazz Education. He currently sits on the board of the International Society for Improvised Music.

As a trumpet player for over 40 years, Bill has a lifelong love of music, and is committed to the ideal that classical music and jazz can build community and transform our lives.

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Ashley Alvarado is president and CEO of Texas Public Radio. She joins TPR after two decades as a journalist, having worked at the LA Times, Center for Investigative Reporting, and LAist (Southern California Public Radio), among other outfits. Alvarado has dedicated much of her career to advancing the practice of engaged journalism. She’s a board member with the Online News Association, Greater Public, and the First Amendment Coalition. She also serves on the Poynter Institute’s national advisory board.

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Roesler is a consultant in business strategy, business modeling, operations, and business development. He formerly spent 20 years at the American Public Media Group, serving as Interim President of Minnesota Public Radio, Chief Business Development Officer and in SVP roles leading revenue generation, marketing, distribution, general management, and content.

Tim began his media in local television, and later radio sales led him into sales management and station management in commercial broadcasting. He’s held positions in Omaha, Monterey, San Francisco, and Minneapolis with various companies including CBS Radio, and IHeartRadio. In addition, Tim helped launch a digital startup toward a national footprint. Internet Broadcasting, now Lakana, created websites for local network TV affiliates. Tim worked with companies like Hearst-Argyle, Post-Newsweek, CBS, and NBC to implement digital sales strategies, and hire digital sales managers.

He holds a BA in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Nebraska, a Masters in Telecommunication from Michigan State University, and executive MBA strategy coursework at the University of Southern California.

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Tammy is a 20-year public media veteran with roots in music commercial radio in Wisconsin. She oversees all aspects of KUNC and The Colorado Sound's operations, the ongoing development of the organization's culture, and the fulfillment of its mission. She works with the Board in the continual development of strategic planning, embodying the plan's vision, and leading the organization to its successful implementation.

She worked in public television in Wisconsin and Chicago and was the Director of Distribution and Logistics at WBEZ in Chicago, Director of Content and Programming at WESA in Pittsburgh, General Manager of KRCC in Colorado Springs, and most recently, the Executive Director at Aspen Public Radio.

Colorado is her favorite place, and you'll find her on a hike or Nordic ski excursion when not consuming podcasts, film noir, or collecting vintage typewriters.

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Jake Fenske is a strategic digital marketing leader with a career spanning public media and the private sector, specializing in revenue growth and digital innovation. Starting in a dot-com startup during the early 2000s, he honed data-driven skills that fueled his impact across industries. As VP of Digital Membership at NYPR, he has developed new podcast membership programs and led efforts to expand and strengthen the Gothamist membership program. Previously, he led membership at WBEZ and worked in CRM at Reckitt and Redbox. Passionate about public media, he combines strategy with mission-driven work.

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Chandra Kavati is President of American Public Media and Senior Vice President, Business Development for American Public Media Group. In this capacity, she leads national content and media revenue. Previously, Kavati served as Senior Vice President, Chief Partnerships & Revenue Officer American Public Media Group. With more than 12 years of experience in public media, she has also served as Vice President, Underwriting and Distribution & Chief Revenue Officer for American Public Media, following her work as the managing director of development strategy and operations for Minnesota Public Radio where she led operations for the philanthropic development division.

Before working in public media, Kavati had roles that spanned fundraising, development, marketing, and operations with nonprofits. Kavati has a Bachelor of Arts in literature and creative writing from Harvard University, and a Masters of Liberal Studies degree in innovation and creative writing from the University of Minnesota.

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Brendan Kinney is the Chief Operating Officer for Vermont Public. Previously, he was interim CEO and before that, Senior Vice President of Development. He oversaw all of Vermont Public's fundraising efforts, including philanthropy and planned giving, membership, sponsorship, foundation grants and capital campaigns. Kinney joined Vermont Public (then VPR) in February 2010. Prior to VPR and Vermont Public, Kinney served as Associate Vice President of Institutional Advancement and Executive Director of Marketing and Public Relations at SUNY Plattsburgh and was Director of the Annual Fund and Advancement Services at Saint Michael's College. Kinney holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and a Master’s degree in Education from Saint Michael’s College.

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Nico Leone is the President and CEO of KERA — a nonprofit public media organization in North Texas reaching more than 4.5 million people each month. KERA’s mission is to inform and inspire the North Texas community through essential services — including a public television station, three radio stations and a newspaper.

Nico began his tenure at KERA in February 2020, just as the coronavirus pandemic began to surge. Under his leadership, the organization was able to not only sustain, but grow its essential services to audiences during a challenging time. Since then, Nico has continuously positioned the organization for exceptional growth and innovation.

Key to Nico’s leadership style is collaboration. Under his tenure, KERA has launched several journalism partnerships — including with the Fort Worth Report and the Dallas Morning News — in order to expand accessible and essential reporting to the people of North Texas. Nico also oversaw the successful merger of organizations into KERA’s services — the classical music station WRR 101.1, and the Denton Record-Chronicle, Denton County’s primary source of local news. And, as CEO, Nico leads The Texas Newsroom, a first-of-its-kind journalism collaboration between NPR and the four largest public media newsrooms in Texas. Each of these innovative collaborations serves as a model for newsrooms and public media organizations across the country, while also positioning KERA to be more embedded in the communities it serves.

Nico serves on the board of AT&T Performing Arts Center and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and has previously served on the board of directors for NPR, Greater Public and Station Resource Group. Prior to KERA, Nico served as General Manager of KCUR in Kansas City, Missouri, where he led the organization to be one of the most collaborative public radio stations in the country.

Nico grew up in small towns in Kansas. He has two degrees in Communications from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he met his wife, Nicole. They live in Dallas.

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Ju-Don Marshall is a journalist, entrepreneur and digital media strategist. She is currently chief content officer and executive vice president of WFAE, the NPR station in Charlotte. Previously, she was the chief operating officer of LifePosts, a collaborative storytelling platform that she helped launch; director for the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University; and general manager and senior vice president for Everyday Health. Prior to joining Everyday Health, Marshall was executive editor and senior vice president at News Corporation, overseeing Beliefnet.com, at the time the leading site for faith and inspiration. Marshall also spent 17 years at The Washington Post, most recently at the helm of its award-winning web site.

Marshall is an industry leader, who has held leadership roles in the Online News Association, the Online Publisher's Association, the RFK Memorial Awards, J-Lab's New Voices Web awards and McCormick New Media Women Entrepreneurs, the National Association of Black Journalists.

In 2003, Marshall was awarded the coveted Nieman Fellowship, allowing her to spend a year studying at Harvard University. She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in journalism from Howard University.

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DeLinda Mrowka is Chief Revenue Officer at KQED. She is responsible for areas that grow and deepen relationships with KQED’s audiences and financial supporters. This includes membership, corporate sponsorship, major giving, foundations and planned giving, audience development and intelligence, marketing and communications, the in-house agency KQED Creative, and the live event series KQED Live.

DeLinda has twenty years of experience working in a broad range of leadership roles within public media. She started her KQED career in 2013 as the station's executive director of marketing and communications before being promoted to vice president of corporate sponsorship in 2015. In 2017 she was promoted to vice president of marketing, with broad responsibilities overseeing the audience development, marketing, digital fundraising and corporate sponsorship teams. DeLinda became chief audience officer in 2019, which expanded her role to also include membership.

Throughout her tenure at KQED, DeLinda has shown a unique ability for assembling talented, results-oriented teams that work across the organization to help facilitate strategic goals. Under her leadership, the corporate sponsorship team generated its highest overall revenue and tripled digital sponsorship revenue. The membership program has experienced its greatest average number of members under her leadership. DeLinda created an audience development team with expertise in social, email and digital fundraising that works closely with content, membership and corporate sponsorship teams. And she developed an audience intelligence team that gathers, analyzes and delivers insights on how audiences and members are engaging with the station and platforms. More recently, she created a wholly new program, team and brand for KQED Live, an ambitious year-round live event series set in KQED’s new headquarters.

Prior to joining KQED, DeLinda was executive director of the Public Awareness Initiative for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), senior director of marketing and media relations at WETA, and the director of business affairs for Oliver Productions.

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Anthony Padgett was named General Manager of WOSU Public Media in 2023. Padgett brings more than 30 years of industry experience, most recently serving as president and CEO of South Carolina ETV (SCETV) in Columbia.

Under his leadership, SCETV expanded both its national reach and its statewide impact. Padgett has encouraged the use of SCETV’s robust broadcast infrastructure to address important issues, such as South Carolina’s existing digital divide. Through initiatives, like datacasting, at-home-learning and wireless hotspot and local broadband projects, the network has leveraged its unique assets to better serve the citizens of the state and strengthen local partnerships.

Padgett has also worked to move the needle on diversity, equity and inclusion in the public media system. In 2019, he participated in the prestigious Diversity Leaders’ Initiative at Furman University’s Riley Institute. Inspired by the experience, Padgett collaborated with the Riley Institute to establish a public media-focused version of the program.

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Jim Rademaker has been the General Manager of WGVU Public Media since August 2021. Prior to that he was General Manager of WCMU Public Media at Central Michigan University. He currently serves as the President of the Michigan Association for Public Broadcasters, Chair of the Joint Licensee Affinity Group Coalition (PBS org), and as Vice Chair of the Affinity Group Coalition.

Jim previously served on the PBS Development Advisory Committee, the final 2 years as it’s chair, and served on executive board of the Small Station Association and various NETA committees. Locally he currently serves on the board of the Rotary Club of Grand Rapids and Scouting USA. He has previously served as a board member for the World Affairs Council of Western Michigan, Grand Rapids Civic Theater. His three main passions in public media are; to build WGVU into an organization of impact that goes beyond broadcasting to be a trusted partner with the community where all voices can be heard and people feel they belong; build empowered teams that are solution oriented; and build systems that ensure new generations of talent coming into the system can thrive and we can learn from each other.

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Alejandra Santamaria is the President and CEO of Southern California Public Radio. She most recently served as the interim President, General Manager and Vice President, Director of Sales for Univision Los Angeles, part of TelevisaUnivision, the leading Hispanic media company in the U.S. In this role, Santamaria ran sales and operations for Univision’s flagship local television station KMEX, UniMas KFTR, KLVE-FM, KSCA-FM, KRCD/V-FM and KTNQ-AM radio stations and a suite of digital properties in the Los Angeles market.

Santamaria has three decades of experience in the media industry. She also served as the President and General Manager of Univision Arizona where she led all station operations, sales initiatives and digital marketing solutions for the company’s local TV, radio and digital properties based in Phoenix for the entire state of Arizona.

Prior to that, Santamaria served in various roles at Univision Los Angeles, including director of local sales and senior account executive. Santamaria began her media career at Univision as an intern before being hired as a research analyst. She has also held several positions at Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation (HBC) where she last served as an account executive.

Santamaria is a founding member of Univision’s Women’s Leadership Council (WLC), an employee resource group designed to prepare the next generation of women leaders. She was also a part of the group’s steering committee. She most recently served on the boards of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and the L.A. County Economic Development Corporation. Previous boards she served on include the Arizona-Mexico Commission, Arizona Broadcasters Association and the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Santamaria holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Loyola Marymount University where she majored in Communications and minored in Business.

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Gary Stokes is the General Manager of KSPS-TV, the PBS station serving the Inland Northwest, including Eastern Washington, Northeastern Oregon, Northern Idaho, Western Montana and the Canadian Provinces of Alberta and part of British Columbia. He has served two terms on the PBS Board of Directors.

Stokes was named General Manager in September 2013, after coordinating the successful transfer of the broadcast license from Spokane Public Schools (the license holder since the station signed on in 1967) to the Friends of KSPS, the organization that has raised the bulk of operating funds for KSPS since more than 40 years. Stokes was hired as Executive Director of the Friends of KSPS in 2011 from Alabama Public Television in Birmingham where he was Vice-President of Development. While at APT, he was Manager of Corporate Support, promoted to Assistant VP of Development then promoted to VP of Development, all in support of the statewide network’s nationally-recognized education mission.

He has nearly 40 years of broadcast experience - 13 of those in public television - in roles ranging from on-air reporter, producer and executive producer to news director and General Manager. He’s had the chance to work for every broadcast network affiliate in cities from Dayton to Dallas, Baltimore to Buffalo and Norfolk to Houston.

The Philadelphia native is actively involved in the Spokane community, serving as Immediate Past Chair of the Empire Health Foundation Board, completing his second term as a Gubernatorial appointee to the board of Humanities Washington, President-Elect of Spokane Rotary 21, as well as the MultiCare Foundation Board.

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Bill has decades of experience in music and management, is committed to the mission of public media, and is passionate about the role WRTI plays in bringing classical music and jazz to listeners throughout the tri-state region and beyond.

Bill is a graduate of Cornell University and has held leadership positions in corporate and foundation relations for Temple University and Cornell. In the private sector he has worked at Chubb and The Equitable in New York City. He has also served on the boards of WYBE and the African-American Jazz Caucus of the International Association for Jazz Education. He currently sits on the board of the International Society for Improvised Music.

As a trumpet player for over 40 years, Bill has a lifelong love of music, and is committed to the ideal that classical music and jazz can build community and transform our lives.

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Ashley Alvarado is president and CEO of Texas Public Radio. She joins TPR after two decades as a journalist, having worked at the LA Times, Center for Investigative Reporting, and LAist (Southern California Public Radio), among other outfits. Alvarado has dedicated much of her career to advancing the practice of engaged journalism. She’s a board member with the Online News Association, Greater Public, and the First Amendment Coalition. She also serves on the Poynter Institute’s national advisory board.

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Roesler is a consultant in business strategy, business modeling, operations, and business development. He formerly spent 20 years at the American Public Media Group, serving as Interim President of Minnesota Public Radio, Chief Business Development Officer and in SVP roles leading revenue generation, marketing, distribution, general management, and content.

Tim began his media in local television, and later radio sales led him into sales management and station management in commercial broadcasting. He’s held positions in Omaha, Monterey, San Francisco, and Minneapolis with various companies including CBS Radio, and IHeartRadio. In addition, Tim helped launch a digital startup toward a national footprint. Internet Broadcasting, now Lakana, created websites for local network TV affiliates. Tim worked with companies like Hearst-Argyle, Post-Newsweek, CBS, and NBC to implement digital sales strategies, and hire digital sales managers.

He holds a BA in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Nebraska, a Masters in Telecommunication from Michigan State University, and executive MBA strategy coursework at the University of Southern California.

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Tammy is a 20-year public media veteran with roots in music commercial radio in Wisconsin. She oversees all aspects of KUNC and The Colorado Sound's operations, the ongoing development of the organization's culture, and the fulfillment of its mission. She works with the Board in the continual development of strategic planning, embodying the plan's vision, and leading the organization to its successful implementation.

She worked in public television in Wisconsin and Chicago and was the Director of Distribution and Logistics at WBEZ in Chicago, Director of Content and Programming at WESA in Pittsburgh, General Manager of KRCC in Colorado Springs, and most recently, the Executive Director at Aspen Public Radio.

Colorado is her favorite place, and you'll find her on a hike or Nordic ski excursion when not consuming podcasts, film noir, or collecting vintage typewriters.

Question 19

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Jake Fenske is a strategic digital marketing leader with a career spanning public media and the private sector, specializing in revenue growth and digital innovation. Starting in a dot-com startup during the early 2000s, he honed data-driven skills that fueled his impact across industries. As VP of Digital Membership at NYPR, he has developed new podcast membership programs and led efforts to expand and strengthen the Gothamist membership program. Previously, he led membership at WBEZ and worked in CRM at Reckitt and Redbox. Passionate about public media, he combines strategy with mission-driven work.

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Chandra Kavati is President of American Public Media and Senior Vice President, Business Development for American Public Media Group. In this capacity, she leads national content and media revenue. Previously, Kavati served as Senior Vice President, Chief Partnerships & Revenue Officer American Public Media Group. With more than 12 years of experience in public media, she has also served as Vice President, Underwriting and Distribution & Chief Revenue Officer for American Public Media, following her work as the managing director of development strategy and operations for Minnesota Public Radio where she led operations for the philanthropic development division.

Before working in public media, Kavati had roles that spanned fundraising, development, marketing, and operations with nonprofits. Kavati has a Bachelor of Arts in literature and creative writing from Harvard University, and a Masters of Liberal Studies degree in innovation and creative writing from the University of Minnesota.

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Brendan Kinney is the Chief Operating Officer for Vermont Public. Previously, he was interim CEO and before that, Senior Vice President of Development. He oversaw all of Vermont Public's fundraising efforts, including philanthropy and planned giving, membership, sponsorship, foundation grants and capital campaigns. Kinney joined Vermont Public (then VPR) in February 2010. Prior to VPR and Vermont Public, Kinney served as Associate Vice President of Institutional Advancement and Executive Director of Marketing and Public Relations at SUNY Plattsburgh and was Director of the Annual Fund and Advancement Services at Saint Michael's College. Kinney holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and a Master’s degree in Education from Saint Michael’s College.

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Nico Leone is the President and CEO of KERA — a nonprofit public media organization in North Texas reaching more than 4.5 million people each month. KERA’s mission is to inform and inspire the North Texas community through essential services — including a public television station, three radio stations and a newspaper.

Nico began his tenure at KERA in February 2020, just as the coronavirus pandemic began to surge. Under his leadership, the organization was able to not only sustain, but grow its essential services to audiences during a challenging time. Since then, Nico has continuously positioned the organization for exceptional growth and innovation.

Key to Nico’s leadership style is collaboration. Under his tenure, KERA has launched several journalism partnerships — including with the Fort Worth Report and the Dallas Morning News — in order to expand accessible and essential reporting to the people of North Texas. Nico also oversaw the successful merger of organizations into KERA’s services — the classical music station WRR 101.1, and the Denton Record-Chronicle, Denton County’s primary source of local news. And, as CEO, Nico leads The Texas Newsroom, a first-of-its-kind journalism collaboration between NPR and the four largest public media newsrooms in Texas. Each of these innovative collaborations serves as a model for newsrooms and public media organizations across the country, while also positioning KERA to be more embedded in the communities it serves.

Nico serves on the board of AT&T Performing Arts Center and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and has previously served on the board of directors for NPR, Greater Public and Station Resource Group. Prior to KERA, Nico served as General Manager of KCUR in Kansas City, Missouri, where he led the organization to be one of the most collaborative public radio stations in the country.

Nico grew up in small towns in Kansas. He has two degrees in Communications from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he met his wife, Nicole. They live in Dallas.

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Ju-Don Marshall is a journalist, entrepreneur and digital media strategist. She is currently chief content officer and executive vice president of WFAE, the NPR station in Charlotte. Previously, she was the chief operating officer of LifePosts, a collaborative storytelling platform that she helped launch; director for the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University; and general manager and senior vice president for Everyday Health. Prior to joining Everyday Health, Marshall was executive editor and senior vice president at News Corporation, overseeing Beliefnet.com, at the time the leading site for faith and inspiration. Marshall also spent 17 years at The Washington Post, most recently at the helm of its award-winning web site.

Marshall is an industry leader, who has held leadership roles in the Online News Association, the Online Publisher's Association, the RFK Memorial Awards, J-Lab's New Voices Web awards and McCormick New Media Women Entrepreneurs, the National Association of Black Journalists.

In 2003, Marshall was awarded the coveted Nieman Fellowship, allowing her to spend a year studying at Harvard University. She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in journalism from Howard University.

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DeLinda Mrowka is Chief Revenue Officer at KQED. She is responsible for areas that grow and deepen relationships with KQED’s audiences and financial supporters. This includes membership, corporate sponsorship, major giving, foundations and planned giving, audience development and intelligence, marketing and communications, the in-house agency KQED Creative, and the live event series KQED Live.

DeLinda has twenty years of experience working in a broad range of leadership roles within public media. She started her KQED career in 2013 as the station's executive director of marketing and communications before being promoted to vice president of corporate sponsorship in 2015. In 2017 she was promoted to vice president of marketing, with broad responsibilities overseeing the audience development, marketing, digital fundraising and corporate sponsorship teams. DeLinda became chief audience officer in 2019, which expanded her role to also include membership.

Throughout her tenure at KQED, DeLinda has shown a unique ability for assembling talented, results-oriented teams that work across the organization to help facilitate strategic goals. Under her leadership, the corporate sponsorship team generated its highest overall revenue and tripled digital sponsorship revenue. The membership program has experienced its greatest average number of members under her leadership. DeLinda created an audience development team with expertise in social, email and digital fundraising that works closely with content, membership and corporate sponsorship teams. And she developed an audience intelligence team that gathers, analyzes and delivers insights on how audiences and members are engaging with the station and platforms. More recently, she created a wholly new program, team and brand for KQED Live, an ambitious year-round live event series set in KQED’s new headquarters.

Prior to joining KQED, DeLinda was executive director of the Public Awareness Initiative for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), senior director of marketing and media relations at WETA, and the director of business affairs for Oliver Productions.

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Anthony Padgett was named General Manager of WOSU Public Media in 2023. Padgett brings more than 30 years of industry experience, most recently serving as president and CEO of South Carolina ETV (SCETV) in Columbia.

Under his leadership, SCETV expanded both its national reach and its statewide impact. Padgett has encouraged the use of SCETV’s robust broadcast infrastructure to address important issues, such as South Carolina’s existing digital divide. Through initiatives, like datacasting, at-home-learning and wireless hotspot and local broadband projects, the network has leveraged its unique assets to better serve the citizens of the state and strengthen local partnerships.

Padgett has also worked to move the needle on diversity, equity and inclusion in the public media system. In 2019, he participated in the prestigious Diversity Leaders’ Initiative at Furman University’s Riley Institute. Inspired by the experience, Padgett collaborated with the Riley Institute to establish a public media-focused version of the program.

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Jim Rademaker has been the General Manager of WGVU Public Media since August 2021. Prior to that he was General Manager of WCMU Public Media at Central Michigan University. He currently serves as the President of the Michigan Association for Public Broadcasters, Chair of the Joint Licensee Affinity Group Coalition (PBS org), and as Vice Chair of the Affinity Group Coalition.

Jim previously served on the PBS Development Advisory Committee, the final 2 years as it’s chair, and served on executive board of the Small Station Association and various NETA committees. Locally he currently serves on the board of the Rotary Club of Grand Rapids and Scouting USA. He has previously served as a board member for the World Affairs Council of Western Michigan, Grand Rapids Civic Theater. His three main passions in public media are; to build WGVU into an organization of impact that goes beyond broadcasting to be a trusted partner with the community where all voices can be heard and people feel they belong; build empowered teams that are solution oriented; and build systems that ensure new generations of talent coming into the system can thrive and we can learn from each other.

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Alejandra Santamaria is the President and CEO of Southern California Public Radio. She most recently served as the interim President, General Manager and Vice President, Director of Sales for Univision Los Angeles, part of TelevisaUnivision, the leading Hispanic media company in the U.S. In this role, Santamaria ran sales and operations for Univision’s flagship local television station KMEX, UniMas KFTR, KLVE-FM, KSCA-FM, KRCD/V-FM and KTNQ-AM radio stations and a suite of digital properties in the Los Angeles market.

Santamaria has three decades of experience in the media industry. She also served as the President and General Manager of Univision Arizona where she led all station operations, sales initiatives and digital marketing solutions for the company’s local TV, radio and digital properties based in Phoenix for the entire state of Arizona.

Prior to that, Santamaria served in various roles at Univision Los Angeles, including director of local sales and senior account executive. Santamaria began her media career at Univision as an intern before being hired as a research analyst. She has also held several positions at Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation (HBC) where she last served as an account executive.

Santamaria is a founding member of Univision’s Women’s Leadership Council (WLC), an employee resource group designed to prepare the next generation of women leaders. She was also a part of the group’s steering committee. She most recently served on the boards of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and the L.A. County Economic Development Corporation. Previous boards she served on include the Arizona-Mexico Commission, Arizona Broadcasters Association and the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Santamaria holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Loyola Marymount University where she majored in Communications and minored in Business.

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Gary Stokes is the General Manager of KSPS-TV, the PBS station serving the Inland Northwest, including Eastern Washington, Northeastern Oregon, Northern Idaho, Western Montana and the Canadian Provinces of Alberta and part of British Columbia. He has served two terms on the PBS Board of Directors.

Stokes was named General Manager in September 2013, after coordinating the successful transfer of the broadcast license from Spokane Public Schools (the license holder since the station signed on in 1967) to the Friends of KSPS, the organization that has raised the bulk of operating funds for KSPS since more than 40 years. Stokes was hired as Executive Director of the Friends of KSPS in 2011 from Alabama Public Television in Birmingham where he was Vice-President of Development. While at APT, he was Manager of Corporate Support, promoted to Assistant VP of Development then promoted to VP of Development, all in support of the statewide network’s nationally-recognized education mission.

He has nearly 40 years of broadcast experience - 13 of those in public television - in roles ranging from on-air reporter, producer and executive producer to news director and General Manager. He’s had the chance to work for every broadcast network affiliate in cities from Dayton to Dallas, Baltimore to Buffalo and Norfolk to Houston.

The Philadelphia native is actively involved in the Spokane community, serving as Immediate Past Chair of the Empire Health Foundation Board, completing his second term as a Gubernatorial appointee to the board of Humanities Washington, President-Elect of Spokane Rotary 21, as well as the MultiCare Foundation Board.