Leadership In The Digital Century

Sandra López Burke grew up in Brownsville, Texas, but for the past couple of decades she has been steeped in Boston communities, education, and politics — emotionally and professionally. As GBH’s new managing director of community and government relations, López Burke will oversee programming at the GBH Boston Public Library Studio and will be responsible for government relations; manage GBH's Community Advisory Board, which provides valuable feedback to the organization on its programs and activities related to audiences and the community; and manage the Apsell/GBH STEM Scholarship for Boston Public Schools students.

Filmmaker Michael Kirk is no stranger to political intrigue and upheaval. With more than 100 FRONTLINE documentaries in his portfolio, he has captured the drama of how Washington, D.C., really works, with close examinations of the people who occupy the most powerful roles in our country. In his new documentary, Lies, Politics and Democracy, he captures today’s unprecedented level of unrest and polarization leading to a fundamental crisis for American democracy. The film airs on Tuesday, September 6 on GBH 2.

The story of the Holocaust is a failure of humanness, said filmmaker Ken Burns. “It’s such an abysmal lapse of all the things that are what humanity should be about,” he said.

Before her nine-month internship in the GBH newsroom, Kana Ruhalter had never even tried working in radio—she’d been a writer and done some television work. But with her experience at GBH, she fell in love with radio and she has now been hired as a full-time associate producer for All Things Considered.