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| Bay Window : Hope on the Street: Character Biographies |
Michael Isip, Producer, "Hope on the Street"
Isip is a former Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism. He is also a two-time winner of the Award for Excellence in Television Coverage of Politics and State Government from the Center for California Studies. He is on the Advisory Board of the Mental Health Education and Workforce Development Initiative at the College of Extended Learning at San Francisco State University.
As an executive producer at KQED, Isip oversees This Week in Northern California, a weekly half-hour public affairs program on KQED San Francisco. He is also KQED executive-in-charge of California Connected, a statewide weekly public affairs program on public television.
Prior to coming to KQED, he was executive producer at KVIE-TV in Sacramento and part-time investigative researcher and field producer for WLS-TV in Chicago. Isip has a B.A. in government from Cornell University and a J.D. from DePaul College of Law.
Sue Ellen McCann, Senior Executive Producer, BAY WINDOW
McCann joined KQED in 1999 and works primarily on current-affairs programming. She has executive-produced KQED's award-winning series Bay Window for the past three seasons and has overseen more than a dozen productions for the series, including "Raising a Ruckus," "GunShots," "No Turning Back" and " The Celebrity and the City." During her tenure, Bay Window has won four local Emmys and one national Emmy.
After working on PBS's Frontline documentaries at the Center for Investigative Reporting, McCann started her own production company, Studio Miramar, in 1991. She has produced a variety of educational and documentary programs that reflect her interest in technology, community, history and cultural affairs. Prior to coming to KQED, McCann produced "Fair Play," part of the Digital Divide series that aired nationwide January 2000 on PBS. McCann has served as executive producer on This Week in Northern California, Digital West and Springboard–Exploring the Digital Age. She currently executive-produces FRONTLINE/World, a national PBS magazine series that focuses on international issues.
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