Meet the Team

Lisa Helmke

Corporate Development Account Executive

Lisa 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

National

Postal traffic to U.S. drops over 80% after trade exemption rule ends, U.N. agency says

Chandelis Duster

The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Aug. 29.
International

Colombia's lone Amazon port faces drying river and rising tensions with Peru

John Otis

Colombia's only Amazon port town could soon be cut off from the river that keeps it alive. As drought and a shifting river spark a tense border dispute with Peru, locals are scrambling to adapt—and politicians are raising flags, literally.
Arts & Culture

Sunday Puzzle: Common denominator

Will Shortz

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International

South Korea says it has reached a deal with the US for the release of workers in a Georgia plant

The Associated Press

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Samantha Balaban

As the sun sets in a small town, a family loads up their rusty old car with the spare couch in their yard. When it breaks down in the mountains, what else is there to do but fly it to the moon?
Health

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Allison Aubrey

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