Management - Board of Directors

KVIE's board of directors is composed of community and business leaders throughout California's Central Valley.

Alicia Arong
Community Volunteer
Co-chair, KVIE San Joaquin Advisory Board; Board Member and Past Board President, San Joaquin County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; Board Member, Mexican Heritage Center, Inc; Board Member, Dolores C. Huerta Foundation; Board Member, Stockton Arts Commission; Board Member, American Heart Association. She is retired and worked for over 30 years for Macy’s.

James Beckwith
President and Chief Executive Officer
Five Star Bank
Board member, Valley Vision; board member LEED (Linking Education & Economic Development); board member, KVIE Public Television; board member, Sacramento Metro Chamber; and board member, Community Bankers of California. Mr. Beckwith received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in accounting from San Francisco State University. He is also a graduate of the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington.

Linda Cutler
Vice President, Corporate Communications
GenCorp
Board of Directors, Executive Committee – Sacramento Metro Chamber, United Cerebral Palsy, Sacramento; Board of Directors – Folsom Chamber of Commerce; Member, Grade Level Advisor – National Charity League, Sacramento; President – GenCorp Foundation; Board Member GenCorp Political Action Committee.

Matthew Harmon
President
HP Property Group, Inc.
Board Member, Seniors First; Board Member, KVIE Public Television; Vice President, Western Care Construction Company, Inc.

Michelle Kuo Harris
Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
Apple
Board Member, Children’s Receiving Home; Board Member, KVIE Public Television. Michelle is a former Chief Financial Officer for KVIE Public Television.

Jerri L. Hunt
Vice President, Employee Relations
Waste Connections
Board member, Sierra Forever Families; board member, Mercy San Juan; Chair, Mercy San Juan Community Leadership Council; and board member, KVIE Public Television. Ms. Hunt graduated from Golden Gate University where she earned a Masters of Science in Human Resources.

Julia Jenness (Board Secretary)
Attorney/Shareholder
Boutin Gibson Di Giusto Hodell Inc.
Former Chair, Board of Capital Public Radio; Director, Capital Public Radio Endowment Board; Director, Wells Fargo Bank Community Advisory Board; Oregon Law Review, Managing Editor, 1986-86 & Associate Editor, 1984-85. Ms. Jenness received her A.B. in Political Science from Stanford University, and her law degree from University of Oregon, School of Law, where she was Managing Editor of the Oregon Law Review.

Ellwood Jones
President
Capital Region Financial Group
Ellwood Jones has more than 25 years of experience in the financial industry. Ellwood specializes in working with the owners of privately held businesses, addressing planning issues that are unique to them. Ellwood has received many industry awards including Sacramento Magazine's Best Financial Planner, 2003 and a Certificate of Appreciation from the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber. He served on the Executive Committee of the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and several other non-profit boards.

Kevin Kelso
Attorney & Shareholder
Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Law Corporation
Past Editor, Harvard Law Review; Member, State Bar of California; Past Co-Chair, Corporation Committee, State Bar of California; Past Law clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; Past Board Member, San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc.; Member, Executive Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California; Published author.

Kathy McKim
Vice President, External Affairs
ATT
Board Member, St. John’s Shelter Program for Women and Children; Executive Committee, Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce; Board Member, KVIE Public Television; Sr. Fellow, American Leadership Forum, Mountain Valley Chapter. Kathy McKim heads AT&T’s local government and community affairs activities in the Sacramento area which includes offices in Sacramento, Redding, Stockton, Modesto and Fresno.

Clinton Myers
President
Myers Homes
Board Member, Myers Homes; Board Member, C.C. Myers; Board Member, Discovery Space and History Museum; Member, Urban Land Institute; USC Mentor Program: Shea Homes

Gloria Naify
Real Estate Investor
Board Member, Sutter Medical Center Foundation; Board Member, KVIE Public Television.

Richard (Dick) W. Osen
Shareholder and Attorney
McDonough Holland & Allen PC
President and Managing Shareholder (1992 - 2001); Chairman of the Board, McDonough Holland & Allen PC; Member, American Bar Association; Member, State Bar of California; Member, Sacramento County Bar Association; Board of Directors, State Capital Law Firm Group; Board of Directors, Chairman, Sutter Medical Center Foundation; Board of Directors, Families First; Board of Directors, Chairman, Capital Public Radio, Inc.; Board of Directors, Chairman, Capital Public Radio Endowment, Inc.; Board of Directors, Sierra Adoption Agency; Board of Directors, Sacramento United Way; Board of Directors, American Heart Association; Board of Directors, Sacramento Downtown Rotary; Recognized as a 2004 Northern California Super Lawyer®; Humanitarian of the Year, Sacramento County Bar Association, 1998.

Larry S. Raber, CPA
Partner, Assurance Services
Perry-Smith LLP
Bio coming soon.

Randall Reynoso (Board Vice Chair)
EVP, Division Manager
Wells Fargo Bank (California Business Banking)
Has served on several philanthropic boards and volunteers his time to: Non Profit Resource Center; Families First; The Stanford Home Foundation; Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce; CARES; and Sacramento Children’s Museum and the Sacramento Red Cross Chapter; American Leadership Forum chapter board chair; and Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce board treasurer. He is a graduate of California State University, Sacramento with a B.S. in Finance.

Robert Sparks, MD
Retired physician, administrator
Senior Associate, California Medical Association Foundation—Sacramento; Advisor, Quincy Foundation for Medical Research—San Francisco; Former President Emeritus and Senior Consultant, W. K. Kellogg Foundation—Battle Creek, MI; Former Board Member (81-93), Chair (89-90), and Treasurer (86-88), National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence; Member, President Reagan's Board of Advisors on Private Sector Initiatives (85-89); Former Member, Board of Directors, Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra; Bachelor's and medical degrees—University of Iowa, Iowa City. Graduate medical education—Charity Hospital, New Orleans, and Tulane University School of Medicine (specialty—internal medicine and gastroenterology.)

Gary Strong
Senior Vice President, Finance
The Sacramento Bee
Gary is Senior Vice President of Finance for the Sacramento Bee. Prior to that he was Controller of the Los Angeles Times and Audit Manager for Ernest and Young. In the latter position, his clients included KCET Public Television in Los Angeles. Gary graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a B.A. in Business and Economics. He is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Internal Auditor.

Mary Weaver
Consultant
California Department of Education
Mary Tobias Weaver is a retired educator and presently pursuing creative projects with textiles and fibers. She has had an achievement-filled career that spanned 35 years, 26 of which were at the California Department of Education (CDE). Ms. Weaver is a volunteer at the Casa Garden Restaurant, a fund-raising venue that supports the Sacramento Children’s Home. She has been a supporter of KVIE for over 20 years. She is also a member of the Sacramento Center for the Textile Arts and the Sacramento Weavers’ and Spinners’ Guild.

Henry Wirz (Board Chair)
President and Chief Executive Officer
SAFE Credit Union
Prior to being president of SAFE Mr. Wirz served as President and Controller of SAFE Federal Credit Union; Credit Union Direct Corporation board chair; XCU Capital Corporation board member; Sacramento Valley Chapter of California Credit Union League board member; member of Public Advocacy Committee of California Credit Union League; member of CUNA Disaster Recovery Task Force; "Credit Person of the Year" by the Sacramento Valley Chapter of the International Credit Association (1993); Sam Walton Business Leader Award (1998); Distinguished Service Award from the California Credit Union League (2003); Award of Excellence from the Sacramento Valley Chapter of the CCUL; Co-Op (CU ATM Cooperative System) Founders Award (2004); Mr. Wirz earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Davis, and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. He attended the Michigan State University Advanced Management Institute, and the Stanford University Executive Development Program. Mr. Wirz is a Certified Public Accountant.

Michele Wong (Board Chair Emeritus)
President/CEO
Synergex International Corp.
President, Discovery Museum Board of Directors; National Board of Directors, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society; Board of Directors, American Leadership Forum – Mountain Valley Chapter; Board of Directors, Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance (SARTA); Campaign Co-Chair, New Powerhouse Science Center; Member, UC Davis External Research Advisory Board; Chair, American Heart Association’s Heart Ball Auction; Recipient of Sacramento’s 2006 Business Woman of the Year by the Sacramento Metro Chamber; "Women Who Mean Business" by Sacramento Magazine in 2007; Sacramento Business Hall of Fame by Jr. Achievement of Sacramento in 2008.