Station Management

David Lowe
President & General Manager
David was named KVIE's sixth President & General Manager in May 2008. He joined KVIE in 2001 as Vice President of Marketing and assumed the role of Vice President of Marketing & Development in 2002. Previous experience includes positions as director of marketing communications with two operating companies of Fortune 500 Transamerica Corporation, director of market development for Unify, and director of marketing for Orchestria. Lowe received his B.A. in English, magna cum laude from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. His leadership includes service on boards of the following: American Leadership Forum Mountain Valley Chapter, California Hall of Fame Advisory Board, Los Rios Foundation, PBS Development Advisory Committee, Sacramento Asian-Pacific Chamber of Commerce (Executive Committee), Sacramento Metro Chamber, and San Joaquin A+. Past service includes PBS Communications Advisory Committee and the Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. He is a graduate of the Leadership Sacramento 2003 program, UC Davis Executive Program 2005, and American Leadership Forum Class XIII. He was selected to be in the Sacramento Business Journal's 40 Under 40 and Sacramento Magazine's Power & Influence 100.

Sonja Spowart, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Sonja joined the KVIE team in 2010 after spending more than ten years as the Controller for the California School Boards Association, a private non-profit and its affiliated entities. She was an audit manager for Ernst & Young, Sacramento, having accepted an employment and relocation offer enabling her to emigrate from Johannesburg, South Africa where she was an assurance and advisory services manager for Ernst & Young, and the recipient of their full academic scholarship.  Sonja received a cum laude Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting degree and an Honors Bachelor of Accounting Science degree from The University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.  She is an "in abstention" member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and has been a member of the California Board of Accountancy since January 2001.

Arcelia Chávez
Vice President of Education & Outreach
Arcelia joined KVIE in 2000. Her responsibilities at KVIE have included human resources management and oversight of the station's education and outreach initiatives. Her previous experience includes human resources and administration management for the corporate sector, including Apple and Bank of America. Chavez holds a B.A. in Liberal Studies with a multiple subject teaching credential specializing in multicultural and bilingual education from California State University Sacramento.

Kevin Smith-Fagan
Vice President of Development
A career nonprofit fundraiser with 20 years of development experience, Kevin came to KVIE in 2004. Prior to relocating to Sacramento in 2003 from Philadelphia, Kevin worked in hunger relief and inner-city education. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Boston University and completed fundraising studies at University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of the Leadership Sacramento program. An active member in the community, Smith-Fagan volunteers with his Rotary Club and the Sacramento Estate Planning Council and serves on the boards of the Planned Giving Forum of Sacramento, College Glen Little League, and Womens Empowerment.

Michael Sanford
Vice President for Content Creation
Mike joined KVIE in 2003. He has more than 25 years of experience in television news, programming and production. He previously served as the editorial producer for Business Now, a half-hour program airing on ABC affiliates in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and Washington, D.C. In 1987, Sanford served as reporter/producer for News Travel Network, the San Francisco-based company specialized in providing consumer travel reports to about 75 affiliates across the U.S. for regular use in their daily newscasts. His reporting took him to such far-flung and fascinating places as Bali, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Tahiti, and New Zealand, as well as across Europe and the U.S. Mike was promoted to Managing Producer of the division and also produced television segments for CNN, the Discovery Channel, and the Travel Channel.