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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Wimbledon semifinalist Taylor Fritz’s former coach and a rising local tennis star talk about his impact on a San Diego tennis court. -
Aside from giving housing and homelessness its own box atop Gov. Gavin Newsom’s organizational chart, the reorg is supposed to simplify the state’s snarled affordable housing financing system. -
San Diego and dozens of other cities are taking federal agencies to court, claiming they're being strong-armed into supporting President Trump's policies in exchange for billions in grant funding. -
A study from UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy found that a trade war with other countries, particularly China, could torpedo one of the United States' most important exporting industries — higher education. -
A stroll through Escondido’s Felicita Park is a journey not only through nature but also through time, as visitors can uncover remnants of a centuries-old Kumeyaay Indian village. -
The Trump administration says it will restrict immigrants in the country illegally from enrolling in Head Start, a federally funded preschool program.
- Trump administration shuts down EPA's scientific research arm
- Man whose car struck crowd outside LA club, injuring 30, was shot, attacked by crowd
- 3 people are still missing from deadly floods in Texas county, down from nearly 100
- 'We are on our knees': U.S. tariffs devastate Lesotho's garment workers
- Trump threatens to derail Washington Commanders' new stadium deal over team name