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I’m an executive with 30 years experience managing large organizations and information technology and a citizen with strong social-democratic and humanist values.
Our social crisis is enabled by mainstream media that mis-frames events and policies, and fosters fear and resentment. So as never before, we need KPFK’s progressive journalism, analysis, and community-building … at the intersection of social and environmental possibility and political power. And we need cultural programming that moves us beyond means and ends and struggle into what inspires, delights, and informs.
I can contribute significantly to the Station Board in three areas -- program strategy, business process and service delivery management, and advocacy. In program strategy, I will promote dialogue and analysis of our political and cultural perspectives, program products, and critical audiences and constituencies. In business process and service delivery management, I will work to improve efficiencies, build customer service and operational professionalism, greatly enhance our Internet delivery technologies, and augment our financial resources, consistent with critical local linkages and host/producer independence and creativity.
The current political-economic crisis, growing commodification of things, and hollowing out of traditional media present tremendous educational opportunities for KPFK and Pacifica. The core social-democratic perspectives and humanistic values that underlie much of our programming can be hugely illuminating for most communities, and we can build support locally, nationally and internationally via empathetic, spirited, well-crafted, focused and effectively monitored programs that express those vital perspectives and values at this critical time.
I grew up in a South Chicago community impacted by movements for civil and economic rights. I studied philosophy and the social sciences in Grand Rapids and then at graduate school at the Free University of Amsterdam in the 1970s where I enjoyed vibrant civic dialogue and creative social-democratic politics born of proportional representation, dynamic labor and student movements, and rich community self-awareness and conceptual traditions. I went on to build a family and to a career in information systems and business process management that provided exposure to various environments here and abroad, including years in the Arabian Gulf with its warmth and constraints of traditional societies and the play and counter-play of national aspirations in an international economic context. I have been Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a large Los Angeles organization for the past ten-plus years, with direct responsibility for 250 information systems staff and a $60M budget. My affiliations include the ACLU, People for the American Way, the Executive Board of Information Systems Associates at UCLA's Anderson School of Business, the Los Feliz Square Neighborhood Association, and KPFK.
I welcome the chance to learn from all KPFK during this election period and beyond (frederickhklunder@gmail.com), and I ask for your support.
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Mi nombre es Fred Klunder. Nuestra crisis social depende de la tergiversación de eventos y asuntos de políticas y de engaños, miedo y resentimientos. Como nunca antes, necesitamos el periodismo de KPFK y Pacifica en la intersección crítica de la posibilidad social y del poder político. Soy un padre y un ejecutivo con 30 años de experiencia en el manejo de grandes organizaciones y de tecnología de la información. Si fuese elegido, trabajaría para profundizar nuestras perspectivas progresistas de izquierda, para gestionar sus conexiones con diversos públicos, para promover asociaciones locales e internacionales y sistemas de presentación de la red, mejorando así las eficiencias, el profesionalismo y la posición de KPFK y Pacífica como una fuente clave de noticias, análisis y movilización.
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| Biography |
1. Why do you want to be on the Local Station Board?
KPFK does things I deeply care about, things I understand and have experience of from some important perspectives, and things to which I can contribute significantly in the areas of program,strategy, business process and service delivery management, and advocacy.
2. How do you envision the Local station Board working the Pacifica Foundation, KPFK, and the community?
Listening, dialogue, opportunity-identification, resource development, providing business assistence, and going wherever the need is.
3. How could the station better serve its listeners?
Keep doing what we've been doing while improving programming and outreach. Be even better craftspeople and managers. And try to get along better and be more inclusive. Aspire to understanding and cultivating internal and external appreciation for our common humanistic and social perspectives, values, and emotions, and their diverse exemplification in peoples societies, areas of human endeavor, and even parts of nature. Put the universal back into the individual, and the individual back in the universal. Transcend the dissonance of "identity politics" vs "class politics." There are so many different ways to say it. Let's get along and hang out and work together for the common good.
4. Describe some actions you would take to increase the influence of the station in under-represented communities and to increase the diversity of the listening audience?
Build a diverse board that can reach out to different communities and ties us together.
5. What sources of funding, other than listener donations, do you feel KPFK should solicit?
Continuing financial viability is currently critical for all media. I think, for example, of recent books by Davis Merritt on the Knight-Ridder newspapers and Jeff Chester on the Internet. There are special governance and revenue challenges in our non-commercial, democratic and community-based space. But we also have tremendous advantages and opportunities with the hollowing out of traditional media! I'd want to understand current revenue data. Absence of a mix of small, medium, and large donations from a range of individuals and institutions might trigger further analysis of program audiences, station image, customer service, outreach and marketing, and similar things.
6. Please state briefly the skills, experience, educational background, work history, organizational affiliations, areas of community service, areas of interest and expertise that you would bring to the Pacifica network as a member of the Local Station Board.
KPFK is perhaps the only place left on the local dial where one can still count on hearing real news, analysis, background and perspectives that matter. The information and education that our station and network are providing are absolutely vital during these critical times of media consolidation and corporate dominance. This treasure has to be kept safe, protected and allowed to grow and flourish. I am passionate, deeply motivated, have the necessary skills, and will work hard as a member of the Station Board, for the protection and development of the organization. I can contribute significantly to the Station Board in three areas--program strategy, business process and service delivery management, and advocacy.
I grew up in a Dutch community in South Chicago that was impacted by movements for civil and economic rights. I attended college in Grand Rapids and went on to graduate study in philosophy, and social sciences at the Free University in Amesterdam in the 1970s where I enjoyed a vibrant civic dialogue and creative social-democratic politics born of proportional representation, dynamic labor and student movements, and rich community self-awareness and conceptual traditions. I went on to build a family and to academic work and a career in information systems and business process management that provided exposure to various environments here and abroad, including years in the Arabian Gulf with its warmth and constraints of traditional societies and the play and counter-play of national aspirations in an international economic context. I have been Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a large Los Angeles organization for the past ten-plus years, with direct responsibility for 250 information systems staff and a $60M budget. My affiliations include the ACLU, People for the American Way, the Executive Board of Information Systems Associates at UCLA's Anderson School of Business, the Los Feliz Square Neighborhood Association, and KPFK.
In program strategy, I will promote respectful dialogue about and analysis of our core political perspectives and values, program products, and critical audiences and constituencies. We benefit from deepening understanding of our unity and our diversity and from focusing our efforts accordingly. In business process and service delivery management, I will strive to draw on my experience to improve efficiencies, build customer service and operational professionalism, enhance our use of opportunities in production and internet communication technologies, and augment resources, consistent with critical local linkages and host/producer independence and creativity.
The current political-economic crisis, growing commodification of things and hollowing out of traditional media present tremendous opportunities for KPFK, Pacifica, and the society we wish to serve. The core social-democratic perspectives and humanistic values that underlie much of our programming can be hugely illuminating for most communities, and we can build support locally, nationally and internationally via empathetic, spirited, well-crafted and effectively monitored programs that express those vital perspectives and values at this critical time.
I welcome the chance to learn from and talk with members of KPFK during this election period and beyond (frederichklunder@gmail.com) and I ask for your support.
7. On which Local Station Board Committees are you interested in actively serving? If you are a current Local Station Board member, on which committees do you currently serve?
I'd like to serve on the Programming and Finance Committees. |
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