Moderators

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  Holly Healy

  Holly Healy is the Community Engagement & Events Project Manager at PBS KVIE. She is responsible for managing station events and maintaining and building relationships with community members.

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  Catherine S

Participants

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  Michael Sanford

  Panel Moderator

  Michael Sanford is the Associate General Manager for Production at PBS KVIE. He has more than 35 years of experience in television news, programming, and production. He joined PBS KVIE in 2005, launching our national series America's Heartland. Michael oversees all of PBS KVIE’s local, regional, and national programs. Prior to PBS KVIE, Michael was the managing producer for Business Now on ABC stations and News Travel Network. Michael’s work has appeared on CNN, Discovery Channel, RFD-TV, Voice of America, and the Travel Channel.

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  Marcos Bretón

  Panelist

  Marcos Breton is the California Opinion Editor for The Sacramento Bee and McClatchy. Breton has been a working journalist in California for more than 30 years and he was previously the lead columnist for The Bee. In 2010, Breton was featured in "The Tenth Inning." a documentary about baseball for PBS that was directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.

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  Ginger Rutland

  Panelist

  Ginger Rutland retired from the Editorial Board of The Sacramento Bee in 2013 after 25 years at the paper. She covered criminal justice and public employee pensions among other topics of the day. Before joining The Bee, Ginger was a TV reporter, first at KCRA-TV, Channel 3 in Sacramento, followed by a decade-long stint as the Capital Bureau reporter for San Francisco’s KRON-TV. After retirement, Ginger adapted her mother’s memoir, “When We Were Colored, A Mother’s Story,” into a play that premiered in 2019 at the Sacramento Theatre Company where it broke box office records.

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  Caroline Winterer

  Panelist

  Caroline Winterer is William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor by courtesy of Classics at Stanford University. She specializes in American history before 1900, especially the history of ideas, political thought, material culture, and the history of science. She is the author of five books and is currently writing a book on the history of deep time in America. She teaches classes on American history until 1900, including American cultural and intellectual history, the American Enlightenment, the history of science, and the trans-Atlantic contexts of American thought.