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KVIE is far more than television. In fact, we don't think of ourselves as being in the business of television. Our business, rather, is really about ideas, learning, arts and culture, and citizenship. Television is simply the means by which we deliver these resources to our community.

As a public service, we profit by improving the community in which we depend for support. We succeed to the extent that our children learn, our viewers become engaged in matters that concern them, and those within our communities join together in a common cause.
   
 

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

Ruth Blank
 CEO, Sacramento Region Community Foundation
Entrepreneur & Restaurateur, Moore's Riverboat Restaurant
Past and present affiliations: Member, Rotary Club of Sacramento; Board Member-United Cerebral Palsy, Families First, American Leadership Forum; Executive Committee-California Channel, California Cable Television Association.

Linda Brandenburger
Attorney (Retired)
Board Member, American Red Cross Sacramento Sierra Chapter; Board Member, Sacramento Symphony Foundation; Former Chair, Soroptimist International of Greater Sacramento; Former Executive Committee Member, Sacramento Opera Association; Formerly employed with American School of London (England) and Sacramento and San Juan Unified School Districts.

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.

Elfrena Foord
Partner
Foord, Van Bruggen & Ebersole
Past Honors: Sacramento Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Woman in Business Award; National Association of Women Business Owners Wise Women Award; Worth Magazine Top 300 Financial Advisors List. Past President-Sacramento Rotary Club Foundation, Junior Achievement, Comstock Club. Past Board Member-Sacramento Estate Planning Council, Comstock Magazine, Family Service Agency, KXPR, Sierra Adoption Services.

Sharon Gerber
President
Six Degreez, Inc
Board Member, Sacramento Hotel Corporation; Board Member/Past President, Northern California Reinvestment Consortium; Board Member, California Association of Local Economic Development; Board member/Past Treasurer, Jewish Civic Action Network; Advisory Council/ “Look of Success” Chair, Boardlink; Board Member, Congregation B’nai Israel; Past Board Member, Sacramento Urban League

Marisa Gutiérrez de Carreón
Principal, marisa gutiérrez de carreón consulting group
Owner, arteymas.com
Consulting group specializing in Events, Fundraising and Communication, works closely with CA Legislature, Lobbyists, Corporate Companies and Non-Profits. Arteymas.com is a web-based on-line source for Latino Greeting Cards & Fine Art representation. Board of Directors Member, Young Professionals on the Move. Founding & Past Board member of the Latino Arts Network of California; Past Board Member of Health and Sciences, appointed by Mayor Fargo, City of Sacramento. Subcommittee for the Hispanic Chamber Culture & Arts Committee. St. Francis High School Patrons Board of Directors Subcommittee for the Arts. Received 2003 “Non-profit Administrative Work” Award by the Sacramento Hispanic Chamber, 2004 FORK IT magazine as Sacramento’s “Art Diva”. Speaker, Sacramento Bee Women’s Day Conference; Speaker, Sacramento Leadership 2002, Speaker, NALAC Conference 2002; Speaker, LAN Conference 2001.

Michael Jacobson
California Public Affairs Manager
 Intel Corporation
Board Member, Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce; Board Member, Santa Clara Chamber of Commerce, Past Director of Business Development, Fort Worth Texas Chamber of Commerce, Past positions with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Social Security Administration, and Urban Mass Transportation Administration.

Ellwood Jones
President
Capital Region Financial Group
Bio coming soon

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.

Mary Yin Liu
Restaurant Owner/Operator
Former Deputy District Attorney for Yolo County and Solano County; Ronald McDonald House Charities National Scholarship Program chair; Asian McDonald’s Operators Association vice chair; Yolo County Planning Commission Member, Sacramento Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce former member; McDonald’s Women Operators Network member; 2003 Yolo County Heritage Month Celebration Chair & MC; State Capitol Candlelight Vigil – MAAD 2002 speaker; 2001 Asian Pacific American Coalition of Solano County chair and cofounder; 2000 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Dinner speaker; Solano County Women Lawyers Association former vice president; Graduate of Loyola Law School; former articles editor for International and Comparative Law Journal, and former Associate Editor of The Loyola Reporter.

Kathy McKim
Vice President, External Affairs
ATT
Bio coming soon

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

Owen John Onsum
President/CEO
First Northern Community Bancorp
Dixon Rotary Club; Board Member, California Bankers Association; Board Member, Western Independent Bankers Association; Board Member, Solano Economic Development Corporation; Treasure, Dixon Community Church; Past President, Friends of the Dixon May Fair; Past Board Member, Solano Community College Scholarship Foundation; Past Board Member/President, Dixon District Chamber of Commerce; Former Instructor, Solano Community College

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

Randall Reynoso

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.

Tom Stallard
President
Rose Colored Glass Company
Lead roles in the Woodland Opera House restoration, the organization of the California State Library Foundation and the California State Archives Foundation; Trustee and Founding President-Golden State Museum; Former Steering Committee Member-Mondavi Center; Current Board Member-Valley Vision, UC Davis Foundation; Former Chair-Yolo County Board of Supervisors, Sacramento Area Council of Governments; Former Trustee-Woodland Joint Unified School District Board of Trustees.

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.

Robert K. Wheeler
 Former Plant Manager
General Mills, Inc.
Chairman of the Board, San Joaquin County Partnership; Board Member, Business Council Inc.; Board Member, General Mills Political Action Committee; Advisory Board Member, U.O.P; Advisory Board Member, Cal Poly Industrial Technology; Trustee, Cal State University, Stanislaus; Active Member, Stanford Alumni Association; Board Member; Community Bank of San Joaquin; Annual Event Chairman, Boy Scouts Greater Yosemite Council “Breakfast of Champions;” Fundraiser Committee Member, Lodi Boys and Girls Club; Cabinet Committee member, United Way of San Joaquin County.

Henry Wirz
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
 President/CEO
Synergex International Corp.
Vice Chair of Economic Development, Sacramento Metro Chamber Board of Directors; Vice President and Fundraising Chair, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Board of Trustees; Vice President of Fundraising, Booster Board at Jesuit High School; President of the Technology Council; Board Member, Northern California World Trade Center; Executive Committee Member, Council of the American Electronics Association. Recipient of Women of The Year Award in 2000 as the Sacramento Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s top Fundraiser.