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    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)*
    President & CEO
    Cascade Public Media
    Seattle, Washington

    		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
    President
    Public Broadcasting Service
    Arlington, Virginia

    		Kliff Kuehl (2021)**
    President  & CEO
    KCPT
    Kansas City, Missouri
    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 PBS
    Johnston, Iowa

    		Courtney Pledger (2022)*
    Executive Director & CEO
    Arkansas PBS
    Conway, Arkansas
    Vivian Riefberg (2021)*
    Senior Partner
    McKinsey & Company, Inc
    Washington, D.C.    		Tom Rieland (2021)*
    General Manager
    WOSU Public Media
    Columbus, Ohio

    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)**
    EVP, Corporate Strategy
    Comcast
    Rye, New York

    Neal Shapiro (2020)**
    President & CEO
    WNET
    New York, New York

    		Tina Sharkey (2021)****
    San Francisco, California
     
    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.
    *=First Term
    **=Second Term
    ***= General Director Third Term
    ****= Filled vacancy mid-term; eligible for two full subsequent terms