Tina Pamintuan is President and CEO of KUOW Public Radio in Seattle, where she leads one of the country’s foremost public media stations. She previously served as CEO of St. Louis Public Radio and, before that, as General Manager of KALW in San Francisco, where she founded the nonprofit KALW Public Media and negotiated a landmark agreement with the station’s license holder to operate the station independently.

She is a member director on NPR’s Board of Directors and was honored with the Philippine American Press Club’s 2019 Ocamp

o-Henry Memorial Award in Radio.

Tina left CUNY in 2019 after 12 years as founder and director of the Audio Journalism program at the Craig Newmark

Graduate School of Journalism, where she taught radio writing and reporting, news magazine productio

n, audio documentary, and oral history. She was a 2014 Nieman Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, where she developed a mobile app to help ethnic radio stations share programming, and later a Scholar-in-Residence at the Tow Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism. In 2015, she organized a seminar on Native American media and community radio for the Radcliff

e Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard.

As an independent radio producer, her stories appeared on WAMU’s Latitudes, KCRW’s UnFictional, and American Public Media’s The Story. Her writing has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Humanities,

and Bust. She was a 2011 Fellow at the International Center for Journalists, traveling to the Philippines to report on climate change and biofuel use in rural areas.

Tina’s commitment to media education began with founding Xtreme Youth Zone Media, a documentary training program for teenagers, with support from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation, and the Third Coast International Audio Festival.

She began her career at National Public Radio, where her favorite task was writing science and adventure scripts for Morning Edition’s Radio Expeditions. In 2001, she was part of a small team that won a DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton for the yearlong series, The Geographic Century. She is a graduate of Georgetown University, where she studied philosophy and physics, and holds a master’s degree from the University of Chicago.