President and CEO
KWBU, Waco TX

Polly Anderson is serving her first term as a professional trustee on the APTS Board. Polly is President and CEO of KWBU in Waco, Texas.

Polly has more than twenty years’ experience in marketing and communications, brand management, and media. Her experience includes tenure in the for-profit sector in marketing and communications, and in the nonprofit sector in management, marketing, development, and public relations.

Polly began her public broadcasting career in 1996 as Director of Corporate Support for WUFT TV & FM, the university licensees at the University of Florida. In 2003, she accepted the position of Vice President of Development and Marketing for the statewide network, Alabama Public Television, and in 2005, moved to Waco, Texas to accept the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of community licensees, KWBU TV & FM.

Polly is very active in the public broadcasting industry, currently serving as interim chair of the Public Broadcasting Service Foundation Station Advisory Council. She is a member of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Public Awareness Initiative (PAI) Advisory Board, and KWBU has been chosen as one of the initial twenty stations to participate in the PAI Pilot Project. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the National Educational Telecommunications Association, and serves on the PBS Board’s Task Force on Corporate Support. She served on the APTS Board Nominating Committee in November 2006. She has been a participant in the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Major Giving Initiative since its inception, and recently, successfully completed implementation of a CPB Small Station Strategic Planning Initiative grant at KWBU.

Polly is a member of the Rotary Club of Waco, serves on the Allocations Committee of the United Way of Central Texas, is a board member of Keep Waco Beautiful, and a board member of Avance Waco, an organization serving Hispanic mothers of children ages birth to three years.

Polly received her BA in Business Administration/Marketing from the University of South Florida, Tampa in 1983, and currently resides in Waco, Texas.