Board of Directors
| Deborah L. Acklin (2021)* President & CEO WQED Multimedia Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Ronnie Agnew (2021)** Executive Director Mississippi Public Broadcasting Jackson, Mississippi |
| Donald A. Baer (Chair, 2020)*** Chairman Burson Cohn & Wolfe Washington, DC | Afsaneh Beschloss (Vice-Chair, 2020)*** Founder and CEO RockCreek Washington, D.C. |
| Maxine Clark (2021)** CEO, The Clark-Fox family Foundation Founder, Build-A-Bear Workshop St. Louis, Missouri | Erroll B. Davis Jr. (2020)*** President, African American Heritage House at Chautaqua Atlanta, Georgia |
Rob Dunlop (2022)* | Susi Elkins (2022)* General Manager WKAR East Lansing, Michigan |
| Chuck Hagel (2022)** Former Secretary of Defense and Nebraska Senator Washington, D.C. | Kim Johnson (2021)* President&General Manager Colorado Public Television Denver, Colorado |
Paula Kerger | Kliff Kuehl (2021)** President & CEO KCPT Kansas City, Missouri |
| Allan Landon (2020)*** Assistant Dean, Eccles School of Business University of Utah Millcreek, Utah | Becky Magura (2020)** President & CEO WCTE Cookeville, Tennessee |
| Kevin Martin (Vice-Chair, 2021)* President & CEO Ideastream Cleveland, Ohio | Molly Phillips (2020)* Executive Director & General Manager Iowa Public Television Johnston, Iowa |
| Courtney Pledger (2022)* Executive Director & CEO Arkansas Educational Television Network Conway, Arkansas | Vivian Riefberg (2021)* Senior Partner McKinsey & Company, Inc Washington, D.C. |
| Catherine Robb(2022)* Media Attorney and Counsel Haynes and Boone, LLP Austin, Texas |
| Ramon Rodriguez (2020)*** Former Managing Partner & CEO Madsen Sapp Mena Rodriguez & Co. Fort Lauderdale, Florida | Robert Sachs (2021)** Principal, Continental Consulting Group, LLC, and former President & CEO of NCTA Boston, Massachusetts |
| Geoff Sands (2022)** Independent Consultant Emeritus Director, McKinsey & Company Rye, New York | Neal Shapiro (2020)** President & CEO WNET New York, New York |
| Lisa Shumate (2020)** Associate Vice President & General Manager Houston Public Media Houston, Texas | Evan Smith (2020)*** CEO & Editor-in Chief The Texas Tribune Austin, Texas |
| Gary Stokes (2022)** President and General Manager KSPS-TV Spokane, Washington | |
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. All PBS Board members serve three-year terms, without pay. Term expires at the fall Organizational meeting of the Board in the year shown in parenthesis.
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