Kathy Bissen is the Associate Director and Chief Operating Officer at PBS Wisconsin and is responsible for a wide range of services at the statewide public media network including Operations, Engineering and Finance as well as being part of the Wisconsin Public Media Leadership Team.

Previously Bissen has been PBS Wisconsin’s Director of Production responsible for overseeing the creation and dissemination of hundreds of hours of original broadcast and digital content every year; and Executive Producer of News and Public Affairs. She has also been the Producer of multiple national PBS documentaries; Co-Creator and Producer of GET REAL!, a children’s television series that aired on commercial and public broadcasting; co-founder of WisContext, a digital news and information service; and was co-director of LZ Lambeau, the largest community engagement event in PBS history. Her work is widely recognized having earned a National Emmy for a documentary on political advertising, multiple USC Annenberg Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in Political Journalism, Parents’ Choice Awards, regional Emmys and Edward R. Murrow Awards. During her career, which started in commercial television, she has reported extensively on science, health, legal, educational and environmental issues.

She is a former member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Journalism Ethics; is on the President’s International Advisory Board for St. Cloud State University, and works with a number of charitable foundations.