Posted on July 22 at 2:49 p.m.

I've been the Executive Director of a non-profit access corporation similar to the Santa Barbara Channels for 15 years, and know how difficult it is to build up an organization while under siege. Having known Ms. Stokstad for six years through her work with the Alliance for Community Media, I can't understand why the chair of her access corporation isn't one of her biggest supporters. She has always struck me as being a very capable, intelligent, and considerate person, willing to listen to other people's viewpoints and ideas. Despite being new to Santa Barbara, she's been successfully running access centers for a decade or more, and knows what she's doing.

It might better benefit the organization if the board at the Santa Barbara Channels, including the chairman, gave their new Executive Director their full support, and a reasonable amount of time to prove herself and do the job they hired her to do rather than wasting her energy and theirs fighting over leadership at a time when they should be building the best organization they can for the community.

On Infighting at Santa Barbara Channels