Background
Born in Chicago, Illinois Polach is the daughter of Ella Jarolim and Jerry Adam Polach. Her mother grew up in rural Hoxeyville, Michigan. Her father was a United States Post Office employee and bank employee from Chicago.
Born in Chicago, Illinois Polach is the daughter of Ella Jarolim and Jerry Adam Polach. Her mother grew up in rural Hoxeyville, Michigan. Her father was a United States Post Office employee and bank employee from Chicago.
She is currently Managing Director of WGBH News for the WGBH Educational Foundation in Boston, Massachusetts, operator of WGBH-television Channel 2 and its all-news radio station WGBH (FM) in Boston, Massachusetts
He served in the United States Army during World World War II and spent 26 months as a prisoner of war* after being captured in North Africa. Polach is the product of a Catholic education. She attended Saint Adrian Elementary School and Maria High School (Chicago, Illinois).
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Procopius College (now Benedictine University) in Lisle, Illinois and a Masters Degree in Journalism from Boston University.
But the lure of journalism that Polach credits to her father"s avid newspaper reading and appetite for politics caused her to change careers. As a journalism graduate student she took an internship at WCVB-television and was eventually hired by the station.
She took on assignments as a news producer, executive producer, director of special projects, planning editor during her 29 years with the American Broadcasting Company affiliate station in Boston. In 2007 Polach joined WGBH-television as executive producer of Greater Boston with Emily Rooney and Beat the Press *.