Niru Ramachandran
Producers Club SpecialistNiru Ramachandran joined KPBS as the Producers Club specialist in December 2016, after volunteering with the development department for a year and a half. She is the go-to person for all Producers Club-related matters, from updating payment methods for sustaining pledges to explaining how to switch to support from donor-advised funds and IRA/Qualified Charitable Disbursements, from walking members through activating KPBS Passport, to… just about anything KPBS-related. Niru began listening to and watching KPBS when she moved to San Diego from Singapore in 1995, and set out on a career as an executive assistant, supporting senior and C-level executives at various companies in San Diego and Silicon Valley (where she missed KPBS’s programming choices). Members of the KPBS Producers Club since 2012, she and her partner were such stalwart supporters that when they finally tied the knot that year after 10 years together, they asked family and friends to contribute to KPBS in lieu of gifts, apparently a first for the station!
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The recent push by several countries to recognize a state of Palestine is largely symbolic, but it carries diplomatic and potentially legal weight. -
For nearly 30 years, the nonprofit Songs of Love Foundation has created custom songs for kids with terminal illnesses. Now it has harnessed AI to expand its services to older adults with memory loss. -
Alaska has long ignored warning signs of a budget crisis. Now, it has no money to fix something that is posing serious health and safety risks to students and staff: crumbling rural schools. -
Reneé Rapp conquered Broadway in Mean Girls and the small screen on The Sex Lives of College Girls. Now she's gunning for the pop charts with her new album, Bite Me. -
The former rabbi of Washington, D.C.'s largest synagogue denounces starvation in Gaza, joining more than 1,000 rabbis and Jewish leaders from across the world petitioning Israel. -
After mass protests, Ukraine's government enacts a law restoring independence to anti-corruption watchdogs, quelling what threatened to turn into a domestic political crisis for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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