KQED Senior Management
Jo Anne Wallace
Vice President, KQED Public Radio General Manager
Jo Anne Wallace has 25 years of experience in public radio management. She has served as station manager of WYSO-FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio, KPFA-FM in Berkeley, and WGBH-FM in Boston, and as director of administration and planning in national Public Radio's news and information programming division. At NPR, Wallace participated in the development of Weekend Edition and instituted cooperative projects with NPR member stations.
Wallace came to KQED-FM in 1990 as general manager of the station. Since her arrival, the station's audience has grown from 300,000 to nearly 650,000 listeners a week, and KQED-FM ranks as the most-listened-to public radio station in the nation. In 1996, Wallace was promoted to vice president and general manager of KQED-FM. For her contributions to public broadcasting and journalism, Wallace received the 1992 American Women in Radio and Television award (Golden Gate Chapter) and the 1995 Public Radio News Director's Leo C. Lee Award. In September 1998, she was elected to the NPR Board of Directors.
