Emily Wenk
Mid-Level Development OfficerEmily Wenk is the mid-level development officer at KPBS with a passion for community engagement and creative expression. Prior to joining the KPBS team, she worked in marketing and data analytics in the wine industry and in annual giving for SDSU Alumni.
Born and raised in Texas, she received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Houston in 2004. From a young age, Emily demonstrated a keen interest in the arts and travel, and enjoys finding inspiration from visiting museums and exploring new cultures and landscapes.
In 2015, Emily settled in Southern California and has been lucky to call San Diego home since 2018. Outside of her work at KPBS, Emily is an avid reader, enthusiastic sports fan, photography collector and lover of music. She deeply values curiosity and kindness, and has found that San Diego has enriched her life as an endless source of both.
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Stream Season 6 now with KPBS Passport! David Rubenstein’s skillful questioning of acclaimed writers like Robert A. Caro, Ron Chernow, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and many others effectively takes us behind the scenes, enabling a rare insight into the American story and a real sense of how history gets made. -
Produced by the New York Historical Society, "History with David Rubenstein" explores American history in half-hour conversations with distinguished authors and scholars who tell the country’s diverse stories, and explain why the past matters, how it informs the present, and what it portends for the future.
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On the latest episode of The Finest podcast, Claudia Rodríguez-Biezunski, fashion designer and owner of Sew Loka, draws on family and heritage to bring Our Lady of Guadalupe into contemporary fashion.
While visiting the Mingei International Museum, Claudia gave host Julia Dixon Evans a tour of "Guadalajara," a textile jacket she constructed from various upcycled fabrics, including suede, leather and cotton flannel.
See more of the jacket and listen to the episode at kpbs.org/thefinest -
Thursday, July 3, 2025 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Guest: Viet Thanh Nguyen (author of "The Sympathizer") and Mai Elliott (author of "The Sacred Willow"). It's been fifty years since the last U.S. military helicopters left Saigon, signaling the fall of the country or its liberation, depending on whom you ask. Two Vietnamese Americans with personal ties to the war reflect on the milestone anniversary. -
On GZERO World with @Ian_Bremmer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen shares what it was like growing up as a Vietnamese refugee in the US—and how the Americans around him often misunderstood the emotional toll of displacement. -
Fifty years after the fall of Saigon (or its liberation, depending on whom you ask), Vietnam has transformed from a war-torn battleground to one of Asia’s fastest-growing economies — and now finds itself caught between two superpowers. Ian Bremmer breaks down how Vietnam went from devastation in the wake of the Vietnam War to become a regional economic powerhouse.
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