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

Politics

Senate Republicans turn to 'nuclear option' to speed confirmation of Trump nominees

Barbara Sprunt

The change will allow certain nominees to be confirmed in groups rather than by individual vote. It follows months of GOP complaints that Democrats were dragging out the confirmation process.
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: Vintage San Jose - Hour 1

Jennifer Robinson

Monday, Sept. 15, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / KPBS+. ROADSHOW revisits vintage treasures from San Jose with values updated for today’s market including a Kashmir sapphire and diamond ring, an Edwardian jockey chair, and a Tlingit bowl and ladle. Watch to learn which find is now $325K-$350K!
Appraisal: 1901-1910 Steam Car & Racing Collection

See Leila Dunbar appraise a 1901-1910 steam car and racing collection in "Vintage San Jose, Hour 1."
Economy

Avocado growers in San Diego County face multiple challenges

John Carroll

The region's avocado acreage has dropped from roughly 26,000 acres in 2008 to about 13,000 in 2024. A combination of increased water rates and labor costs is bringing the industry down.
Environment

California may help solar bloom where water runs dry

Rachel Becker, CalMatters

The state’s farmers are divided over a bill that would loosen rules protecting agricultural land. The goal of a bill proposed by Assembly Democrat Buffy Wicks is to seed solar farms on fallowed fields.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: FDR

Jennifer Robinson

Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Part 1 and 2 Saturdays, Sept.13 + 20, 2025 at 11 a.m. on KPBS 2 or Tuesday, Sept.16 from 8 - 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. The policies and persona of Franklin Delano Roosevelt set the cast of the "modern" presidency. He was unquestionably the most vital figure in the nation, and perhaps the world, during his 13 years in the White House. Engendering both admiration and scorn, FDR exerted unflinching leadership during the most tumultuous period in the nation's history since the Civil War.