Tammy Charnow Carpowich is director of interactive strategy for KPBS, overseeing a team of smart people who use technology to tell stories, engage with the community and raise money. As part of her job, she gets to experiment with convergence journalism as the manager of the Jacobs Project for Reporting Excellence.

Tammy started her career at KPBS in 1994 as a student assistant. Since then, she’s held a variety of different jobs from communications to special events to editor of On Air magazine. She has developed Web sites since the late ‘90s, and remembers a time when e-mail was the hot new thing.

As a student at San Diego State University, she studied math, but eventually discovered a passion for writing and earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Tammy lives in Allied Gardens with her husband, Steve, and their two young children. She grew up watching Sesame Street and 3-2-1 Contact on KCET in Los Angeles, and now enjoys watching public television with her kids. The current family favorite: Dragon Tales.