The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is led by a nine-member board of directors selected by the President and confirmed by the Senate. There is a five-member limit of board members from the same party. Currently, there are five Republicans, two Democrats and one Independent, with one seat vacant. 

 

Chris Boskin served as chair from 2007 to 2009. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, Boskin holds a BA in Art History and English. She studied at the Academia in Florence, Italy, and joined the Architectural Digest in 1972. From 1977 to 1987 Boskin was the Pacific and Asia Manager for the New Yorker magazine, after which she moved to Hearst Magazines, which publishes Harpers Bazaar, House Beautiful, and Esquire. In 1991, Boskin joined Town and Country. Married to Michael Boskin, Professor of Economics at Stanford University and former Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors under President George H.W. Bush, Boskin has served on the Board of Directors for Yoga Journal and College Track Magazine and on the Advisory Board for the School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley. She was nominated to the CPB Board in 2006.

 

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