PBS SoCal, KCET and Link TV Chief Operating Officer (COO) Jamie Annunzio Myers has been driving operations to ensure strategic alignment across all aspects of the organization since her arrival to PBS SoCal in September of 2009. After PBS SoCal merged with KCETLink Media Group (KCET and Link TV) in 2018 to form the Public Media Group of Southern California, Myers was appointed COO, responsible for the integration of the two organizations. With a goal of underscoring the important role of public media when it comes to informing, inspiring and educating the community, she has since managed new lines of business, forged new partnerships and evolved key departments to build a growth company that now specializes in fostering a love of learning, culture and community using the power of public media. Previously COO at PBS SoCal (after serving as VP of Education and Community Engagement), Myers expanded the breadth and depth of the organization’s educational and cultural outreach across Southern California. She built programs that continue to close the gap in school readiness for young children by empowering families to fully integrate themselves into their children’s learning and spearheaded the organization’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic with At-Home Learning, a free educational resource both on-air and online featuring original, short-form content and corresponding state standards curriculum-approved digital resources. At-Home Learning was adapted for local use by more than 100 PBS stations nationally in more than 40 states.
Myers’ background also includes 15+ years of classroom/school district experience with Chicago Public Schools as well as in southeastern L.A. County. She holds master’s degrees in education technology and educational administration, as well as a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and is certified by the National Board in Technology Education.