Partners in Public Service Panel at 2024 Summit

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27

10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.             
General Session

Remarks by Franz Joachim, General Manager and CEO, New Mexico PBS; Board Chair, America’s Public Television Stations

Remarks by Ambassador Gaddi H. Vasquez, Lay Trustee/Former Board Member, PBS SoCal, Los Angeles, California; Board Member, America’s Public Television Stations

Partners in Public Service

  • Darren LaShelle, President and CEO, Northern California Public Media, and Brian Ferguson, Deputy Director of Crisis Communications, California Office of Emergency Services
  • Kurt Mische, President and CEO, PBS Reno, and Jim Verdi, Principal, Spanish Springs Elementary School, Washoe County, Nevada
  • Dr. Daniel Shellenbarger, General Manager, Ohio Public Media Services, and Bob Smith, Chair, Ohio Broadcast Educational Media Commission
  • Moderated by Brigadier General (Ret.) Leo A. Brooks, Jr., Board Member, America’s Public Television Stations