Brenda Barnes joined the KING FM family as CEO in January 2018, and the rest is history! Barnes holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and master’s degrees in clarinet performance and musicology from Michigan State University and the University of Notre Dame, respectively. In 2009, she earned a doctorate in planning and development studies from USC. Having spent her career everywhere from a public radio station in Iowa, to WMRA in Virginia, and a stop at WGUC in Cincinnati, Brenda last settled in California as USC Radio president before heading to Seattle.