Jacquie Gales Webb is Vice President of Radio for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). She develops and implements funding strategies to strengthen the ability of America’s public radio stations to serve their communities with high-quality, multiplatform content.
Ms. Gales Webb joined the CPB Radio department in 2005 as a project manager and was promoted to Director, Content, in 2017. She manages grants that create content and initiatives that have touched the lives of many Americans, including StoryCorps, the Urban Alternative music format for millennials, and radio station outreach to communities around PBS television series. She helps to shape support for public media station collaborations and projects that help rural public radio stations increase their ability to produce content, engage with their communities, and achieve sustainability. She shaped funding for the Texas Station Collaborative, which is now the NPR Texas Hub, and has managed several other station collaborations.
Prior to joining CPB, Ms. Gales Webb was a producer in radio and TV, winning six local Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a DuPont Silver Baton, and a Gracie Award. She has served on the advisory boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. She also has been the host of a gospel music show on WHUR for over 30 years. She is recognized as a national authority on gospel music, and the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses presented her with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 for continuous service and support of gospel music.
Ms. Gales Webb graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech and communication from Emerson College in Boston.