Meet the Team

Geri Tovar

Corporate Development Account Executive

Geri Tovar is a former KPBS staff member.

As a corporate development executive, Geri works to develop successful, long term partnerships with members of the business community who want to reach the KPBS radio, television and digital audience through sponsorships. Geri is responsible for the development and maintenance of campaigns including prospecting, presentations and proposals. She offers a diversified set of qualifications to the KPBS corporate sponsors with whom she works. She comes from commercial radio and helps to bring those insights to KPBS. Geri enjoys live music, hiking, her dog and cooking for her friends.

RECENT STORIES ON KPBS

Health

How one writer quit dieting and discovered her strength through weightlifting

Mara Gordon

Casey Johnston spent years running and restricting calories. When she started weightlifting, she rebuilt muscle mass — and her relationship with her body.
Arts & Culture

Wanda Sykes is grateful her audience sticks with her

Rachel Martin

Wanda Sykes says getting back on the road helps remind her that she's still funny. On this week's Wild Card, Sykes talks about her conversations with God and why she loves bowling alleys.
International

Not taking India-Pakistan escalation seriously a 'huge risk,' warns conflict expert

Obed Manuel

Steve Inskeep

Efforts to mediate the India-Pakistan conflict are not going to work "unless the U.S. steps in with full sincerity," Praveen Donthi, a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group, told NPR.
International

No new pope elected yet after black smoke pours out of Sistine Chapel's chimney

Daniel Burke

Sarah Ventre

Black smoke streamed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday morning in Rome, signaling that the 133 cardinal electors have not come to a two-thirds agreement about who the next pontiff should be.
80 years after VE Day a veteran says, 'I hope people will see the futility of it all'

Joe Hernandez

Army veteran Harry Miller was stationed in Germany when the Nazis surrendered. Upon hearing the news, he recalls that American troops went to sleep or shook hands. "And some just couldn't believe it."
National

Once-fringe activists are fighting to be the voice of the anti-abortion movement

Odette Yousef

Most Americans balk at the idea of charging women who get abortions with homicide, but post-Roe, militant anti-abortion activists are finding state lawmakers are increasingly open to it.