Doug McConnell (Advisor)

  

Since 1993 Doug McConnell has been host and senior editor of TV’s “Bay Area Backroads” on KRON in San Francisco. “Backroads” is the longest-running television series in the history of the nation's sixth-largest market. In addition, Doug is co-author of several best-selling travel/exploration books and he has produced and hosted numerous travel-related specials and series for the Discovery Channel, Westinghouse Broadcasting, and PBS.

A number of regional and national television awards have been bestowed on Doug for his work in reporting on his overriding passion, concern for the environment, for KRON and KPIX in San Francisco and for CBS This Morning. Doug’s clients and employers in the environmental sphere have included the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the President’s Commission on Coal, the White House Conference on Balanced National Growth and Economic Development, the United Nations, the Johnson Foundation, Cambridge Seven Associates, The Institute of Ecology (a consortium of 70 universities), the Governor’s Office of the State of Alaska, the University of Alaska, the Alaska Public Forum, and the Alaska Capital Site Selection Committee.

Doug received a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University (1968), and a Bachelor’s degree in Government from Pomona College (1967). He is a fourth generation Californian, lives in Marin and has two sons. In recent years Doug received honors from the Marin Humane Society as “Humanitarian of the Year,” from the San Francisco Bay Trail Project as “Volunteer of the Year,” and from California State Parks as “Honorary Ranger of the Year.” He's also received the Bay Institute's Harold Gilliam Award for environmental reporting from the Sierra to the sea.