Trisha Richter
Director of Grants and EngagementTrisha Richter is the director of grants and engagement at KPBS. She oversees the researching, writing and submission of grant proposals as well as the overall management and oversight of grants awarded to KPBS, representing more than $1.7 million of the station budget. She also directs KPBS community engagement projects including One Book One San Diego, KPBS Kids, and Community Conversations. Trisha originally joined KPBS in 1997 as the volunteer coordinator. Since then she has held numerous positions and has managed many public media outreach campaigns. These projects have helped educate citizens, oftentimes on a state level, about social issues ranging from teen relationship violence to how to prepare for earthquakes. She has developed and overseen national outreach campaigns for locally produced films and has implemented local engagement for national programs airing on KPBS. Throughout her time with the station's engagement & grants department, she has overseen all of the department’s production efforts. Her work on the Responsible Adults Safe Teens statewide project earned her two local Emmy awards as the project’s executive director. Trisha holds a degree in agriculture business management from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
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Mexican officials have converted an events center into a temporary shelter to house up to 2,600 people, in anticipation of mass deportations from the U.S.
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Bessent won Senate confirmation with the support of more than two dozen Democrats.
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The San Diego City Council Monday voted to double the city's parking meter rates in an effort to address a looming $252.2 million deficit.
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The 35th annual San Diego International Jewish Film Festival, featuring over two dozen films including "The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & The Art of Survival," "Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round" and "Sabbath Queen," starts tonight at the David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre at the Lawrence Family Jewish Cultural Center. Screenings run through Feb. 8, and continues virtually from Feb. 9 through 11.
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In termination letters sent to more than a dozen officials, acting Attorney General James McHenry wrote that he did not believe they "could be trusted to faithfully implement the President's agenda."
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The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.
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