Nancy Dobbs
Board Member
Nancy Dobbs
President & CEO
KRCB Radio & Television
In 1981, Nancy Dobbs was chosen to serve as general manager for the Rural California Broadcasting Corporation (KRCB’s parent company), secured multiple FCC licenses and located a transmitter and building site. She organized the raising of funds and the construction of a building to house the station. Finally, after developing a staff, the station began broadcasting in 1984. KRCB FM was signed on in 1994. Nancy continues to lead the organization as President and CEO.
Nancy was an honoree at Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey’s tenth annual “A League of Their Own” luncheon celebrating women “breaking the glass ceiling” and is a Distinguished Alum of Sonoma State University.
A tireless proponent of public broadcasting, Dobbs also serves on the board of directors of United Way of Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake counties, Headlands Institute, GreenTreks, Inc., and Palm Drive Hospital in Sebastopol.
Prior to her work in public broadcasting, Nancy worked in the area of health care policy. Included was staff to the California State Legislature Assembly Health Committee, Joint Legislative Audit Committee, and as a gubernatorial appointee to the Statewide Health Planning Council. She also served as an appointee of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors to the Board of Trustees of Community Hospital where she chaired the Finance Committee.
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