Director of Radio Programming, KQED

Ernesto Aguilar

Ernesto Aguilar is Director of Radio Programming at KQED in San Francisco. In addition, he writes the newsletter OIGO, which covers public media’s efforts to engage Latino audiences; and serves as treasurer of the board of directors of the Association of Independents in Radio. Aguilar’s career has traversed daily newspapers and alternative weeklies to public radio news and program director roles. He joins KQED after serving as Executive Director of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, where he served stations nationwide for five years. A Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education Fellow (Advanced Leadership) and Sulzberger Executive Leadership Fellow, Aguilar has a B.A. in journalism, with minors in sociology and Women’s Studies from the University of Houston.