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KALW Board, Governance, & Finances

KALW PUBLIC MEDIA (KPM)

KALW Public Media, Inc. is a non-profit entity recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable organization with ID #84-3580297, and is governed by a volunteer board of directors:

  • Laura Saponara (KPM Board Chair), Consultant to Nonprofits, and Chair of the KPM Board
  • Joseph Creitz (KPM Treasurer) Attorney, Creitz & Serebin, LLP
  • Harley K. Dubois, Chief Culture Officer, Burning Man, and Vice Chair of the KPM Board
  • Hong Mei Pang, Interim Head of Communications & External Affairs, San Francisco Unified School District 
  • Ken Ikeda, Co-founder of Studiotobe, a media strategy and production
  • Kyung Jin Lee, Freelance Public Radio Reporter and Producer
  • Martina Castro, Founder & CEO of Adonde Media
  • Shereen Marisol Meraji, audio producer, journalism professor, head of audio at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
  • Subbu Vincent, Director of Journalism and Media Ethics at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
  • Ben Trefny, Interim Executive Director and Ex-officio Member of the Board

KALW Public Media is responsible for the operation, fundraising, distribution, and administration of the radio station KALW 91.7FM and its online content. It does so through a Production Services Operational Agreement with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), the FCC broadcast license holder of record.
You can contact the board of directors by emailing board@kalw.org.

READ ABOUT KPM'S BOARD MEMBERS

KALW Public Media (KPM) is inviting nominations for board members. This is a professional working board. We seek diverse candidates with leadership experience and managerial chops.

Board participation is serious business. KPM is primed to continue to influence how inclusion is understood and enacted in public media, including through #PublicMediaforAll. The stronger the organization, the greater our impact.

How to nominate: Please use THIS FORM to nominate yourself or another person.


SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (SFUSD)

KALW 91.7FM FCC license is held by the San Francisco Unified School District. The SFUSD Board of Education is the governing board of SFUSD. As of June 2023, the commissioners are: President Kevine Boggess, Vice-President Lisa Weissman-Ward, Commissioners Matt Alexander, Alida Fisher, Jenny Lam, Lainie Motamedi, and Mark Sanchez. Board meetings are held on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month, except in July and August, when there are no meetings. Dates and times of upcoming meetings can be found here. The SFUSD Board of Education does not participate in the programming, content, and editorial decision-making of KALW's on-air schedule.

Interim Executive Director, Ben Trefny oversees programming, development, and all station operations. Ben can be contacted directly at ben@kalw.organd at 415-841-4121.


CURRENT YEAR FINANCIAL AND DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS

PREVIOUS YEAR'S FINANCIAL AND DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS

Audited Financial Statements for previous years FY2021, FY2020, FY2019FY2018FY2017, FY2016, and FY2015.

Annual Financial Reports from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for previous years FY2021, FY2020, FY2019, FY2018, FY2017, FY2016, and FY2015.

IRS Form 990 for the previous year TY2020.


FCC PUBLIC INSPECTION FILE

The Federal Communications Commission requires that the stations it licenses maintain a public inspection file with information about the station's license, ownership, and public service programming.

KALW's public inspection file is now hosted on the FCC website. You can access that file here.