Travis Tamasese
Chief of StaffAs chief of staff, Travis Tamasese guides collaboration and coordination within cross-departmental projects at KPBS and builds relationships with community leaders and groups.
He has spent more than 10 years working in public education and served most recently as the deputy chief of staff and director of strategy and policy at San Jose State University. Prior to his time at SJSU, Travis served as the chief of staff in student affairs at Long Beach State University. He has led multiple functional areas and initiatives focused on expanding access to resources, internal and external communications, diversity, equity, and inclusion, budget allocation, and strategic planning.
He is currently completing his master’s degree in human rights practice at the University of Arizona.
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Produced by the New York Historical Society, "History with David Rubenstein" explores American history in half-hour conversations with distinguished authors and scholars who tell the country’s diverse stories, and explain why the past matters, how it informs the present, and what it portends for the future.
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On the latest episode of The Finest podcast, Claudia Rodríguez-Biezunski, fashion designer and owner of Sew Loka, draws on family and heritage to bring Our Lady of Guadalupe into contemporary fashion.
While visiting the Mingei International Museum, Claudia gave host Julia Dixon Evans a tour of "Guadalajara," a textile jacket she constructed from various upcycled fabrics, including suede, leather and cotton flannel.
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Thursday, July 3, 2025 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Guest: Viet Thanh Nguyen (author of "The Sympathizer") and Mai Elliott (author of "The Sacred Willow"). It's been fifty years since the last U.S. military helicopters left Saigon, signaling the fall of the country or its liberation, depending on whom you ask. Two Vietnamese Americans with personal ties to the war reflect on the milestone anniversary. -
On GZERO World with @Ian_Bremmer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen shares what it was like growing up as a Vietnamese refugee in the US—and how the Americans around him often misunderstood the emotional toll of displacement. -
Fifty years after the fall of Saigon (or its liberation, depending on whom you ask), Vietnam has transformed from a war-torn battleground to one of Asia’s fastest-growing economies — and now finds itself caught between two superpowers. Ian Bremmer breaks down how Vietnam went from devastation in the wake of the Vietnam War to become a regional economic powerhouse. -
It's been fifty years since Saigon fell or was liberated, depending on whom you ask. Two Vietnamese Americans with personal ties to the war reflect on the milestone anniversary. Viet Thanh Nguyen is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Sympathizer," now an HBO TV series, and Mai Elliott is the author of "The Sacred Willow" about a Vietnamese family over four generations.
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