Patricia Cahill was appointed to the CPB Board by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate in August 2009.
She is currently the general manager of KCUR-FM, the public radio station at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she also serves as an assistant professor of Communication Studies.
Cahill has worked in public radio for 40 years. Prior to KCUR, she worked as a reporter, producer, program director, news director, and general manager of KMUW-FM at Wichita State University. She was also an instructor in speech communications and journalism at the school.
She has served on the board of directors for NPR and served as the chair of the Distribution/Interconnection Committee, the Membership Committee and the Development Committee. She was also the president of Public Radio in Mid America, a public radio membership organization.
Cahill earned a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Kansas. She is the mother of two daughters.
Her term expires in 2014.
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