Lisa Helmke
Corporate Development Account ExecutiveLisa Helmke is a former KPBS staff member.
                                
                                
                            As a corporate development account executive, Lisa Helmke's role is to generate corporate support by identifying and fostering relationships within the business community. Before joining KPBS, Lisa was a senior account executive in commercial media. Throughout this time, she’s worked with a variety of clients and brands on integrated marketing campaigns. Her goal is to create strategic partnerships by leveraging audio, video, and event marketing assets to optimize sponsorship value in an ever-evolving media landscape. When not at work, Lisa’s never too far from family and friends. She loves live theatre, travel, and yoga.
RECENT STORIES ON KPBS
    
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                        The so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" signed into law this summer cuts $30 billion per year from Medi-Cal and imposes new barriers to CalFresh.
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                        Premieres Wednesdays Nov. 5 and 12, 2025 / Stream with KPBS+ / Encores Sunday, Nov. 9 and 16 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV and 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 + Thursdays, Nov.13 at 9 p.m. and 20 on KPBS 2. The size of a football field, the International Space Station hurtles around Earth at 17,000 mph. Witness terrifying moments of high danger – when ingenuity and teamwork keep astronauts alive as they do remarkable science in space.
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                        From ammonia leaks to Space Shuttle disasters to a spacewalk gone terribly wrong, astronauts and Mission Control insiders relive the most terrifying moments during construction of the International Space Station.
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                        The San Diego Model Railroad Museum features amazing exhibits, all designed by volunteers.
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                        Like many Americans, Scott Adams had insurance problems. But unlike most people he has powerful friends on social media, and when he asked President Trump for help, he got the cancer drug he needed.
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                        Blain was slated to appear in a downtown San Diego courtroom on Monday for arraignment on charges including perjury and soliciting bribes, but because of his overseas deployment, the hearing was postponed until Jan. 12.
 
- Fire and explosion at northwestern Mexico store leave at least 23 dead and 12 injured
 - How this week's elections in Virginia became about ... everything
 - Trump is leaning into his crackdown on city crime. The GOP sees it as a winning issue
 - A photographer captures life inside Chicago Public Schools
 - In Chicago, a Halloween weekend of immigration arrests and violence