Heather Milne Barger
Director of CommunicationsAs director of communications, Heather Milne Barger is responsible for the strategic coordination of information to staff, the public, and press about all things KPBS. With more than 20 years experience in media relations, social media, writing, online and print collateral, and business development, she has served in executive roles with the San Diego Workforce Partnership, Cooley LLP, and the San Diego Venture Group. She began her career as the first full-time marketing staff member for the San Diego Daily Transcript and wrote a weekly column covering the advertising and public relations industry. A fifth generation Californian, Heather grew up near Yosemite National Park, attended Scripps College in Los Angeles, and found home in San Diego.
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Experts have found a man charged with the attack at a Boulder, Colo., supermarket earlier this year is mentally incompetent to stand trial for now, attorneys said during a court hearing. -
Voters in Berlin, Germany, want the city to expropriate hundreds of thousands of apartments to stop speculation by big property developers — but it's too costly and probably illegal.
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South Africa's health ministry says the rate of infection is the highest since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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She stars in the film as the woman at the center of a scandal in the fashion world. But the actors' Italian accents have been panned and the Gucci family has criticized the way it was depicted. -
After a Chinese tennis star accused a former Chinese official of assault and temporarily vanished from view, the Women's Tennis Association halted tournaments there. Now the men's group is under fire.
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Encore Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Friday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. Radio host Joe Madison receives startling family news, and series host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. learns his own DNA story. Also features the FINDING YOUR ROOTS: The Seedlings STEM Camp, with science and history inspiring the next generation.
