Welcome Keri Stokstad our new ED

Our new Executive Director is Keri Stokstad. Keri has almost 20 years of experience specifically focused in community access beginning as a volunteer at PATV, Inc. in Iowa City, Iowa in 1991. PATV employed Keri in 1992 for six years before she left to become Community Programmer for the City of Iowa City’s Government Access Channel. Her experience includes sports and news broadcast production as well as documentary, video art and intermedia but she always kept close ties with her public access roots. She has been an integral part of two start up access centers. In 1999, she left the Midwest and traveled to Klamath Falls, Oregon to lead development of the first Public, Education, Government (PEG) access facility at the Oregon Institute of Technology and in November of 2001 she became Executive Director of Puget Sound Access in Kent, Washington. Keri moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts in 2007 to be Executive Director of PortMedia.

Santa Barbara Channels members are invited to an informal gathering to say so long to Hap and welcome Keri on Tuesday, February 2, 5-6:30 pm at our beautiful new facility at 7000 Hollister Ave. in Goleta.