Kathy Bisbee, a leading advocate for public access television with WV roots
Kathy Bisbee checking out a few websites at my home recently
Kathy Bisbee was born in Maine, grew up there, but has plenty of West Virginia roots including her mother and all of her maternal relatives. I have known her mother, an avid photographer and retired Maine teacher, for many years.
She is presently the director of a public access group of channels in Gilroy, California. I told her about our own “public access” channel, WVLC Library Television Network. After being elected to a national board advocating for public access, she was interested in meeting with Senator Rockefeller about continuing federal support for public access TV. She was a summer intern for WVCAG in the summer of 1990, working as an intern for Norm Steenstra. She is now working on a feature documentary about the influence of music in Latin American countries and hopes to air it on PBS someday. Good luck Ms. Bisbee - nice meeting another media activist, especially one with WV roots. ( I was the only librarian who helped co-founded a regional media arts coalition, OVRMAC, that was a division of NAMAC, the National Association of Media Arts and Culture.)
