KQED's Jo Anne Wallace Elected to NPR Board

KQED Vice President and General Manager, KQED Public Radio Jo Anne Wallace has been elected to the National Public Radio (NPR) Board of Directors.

NPR announced the results of the 2015 NPR Board elections on August 13, 2015. Wallace and three additional members were elected this month: station manager members Roger LaMay from WXPN in Philadelphia and Joyce Slocum from KSTX in San Antonio, and public member John Wotowicz.

"Jo Anne is a thoughtful, experienced leader and tireless champion of public radio," said KQED President and CEO John Boland. "Developing a strategic direction and goals in the midst of a rapidly changing media environment is critical for NPR. They are lucky to have her on the team, and so are we."

"I'm absolutely delighted to join the NPR Board, and I look forward to the exciting work we have ahead of us," said Wallace. "NPR and its member stations are the preeminent source of public service journalism for the American people.  It’s an exhilarating time as we create new ways to reach listeners with trusted public radio news and information."

Since joining KQED in 1990, Jo Anne led the expansion of KQED’s locally- produced news and information and community services.  Today, KQED is one of the most-listened-to stations in the nation, and its digital audience is growing with audio streaming and on-demand and social media content.

In 2014, she was given the additional responsibility of supervising programming for KQED TV 9/San Francisco and TV 54/San Jose. During her tenure at KQED, Wallace has spearheaded the development of one of the-most-listened-to public radio news and public affairs services in the nation. In 2003, KQED acquired a second FM station — KQEI 89.3 FM, Sacramento — which expanded access to the KQED Public Radio service for listeners in the Sacramento Valley. Since 1990, the KQED Public Radio audience has grown from 300,000 to 725,000 listeners a week, including the combined audiences of KQED and KQEI.

From 1980 – 1989, Wallace was Director of Administration and Planning in the National Public Radio News division. At NPR, she worked with the programming team that developed Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday and acquired Car Talkand Fresh Air for national presentation by NPR. Before her work at NPR, Wallace was station program manager, WGBH-FM/Boston; general manager, KPFA-FM/Berkeley; and station manager, WYSO-FM/Yellow Springs, Ohio.

From 1998 to 2004, Wallace served two consecutive terms as a member of the NPR Board of Directors, and she was elected the Board’s vice chair in her second term. She currently is serving a third term on the Board of Directors of the Station Resource Group, a national organization of leading public radio stations which focuses on station-based strategic issues. She also is a member of the Board of Directors of EdSource, an Oakland-based organization which serves California public education administrators, teachers and parents with timely reporting and other information about public education issues.

For her contributions to broadcasting and journalism, Wallace has been recognized with an American Women in Radio and Television Award (Golden Gate Chapter), and the Public Radio News Directors’ Leo C. Lee Award.

Wallace is a graduate of Stanford University, with a B.A. in English.

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