Katie Hyson
Racial Justice and Social Equity ReporterKatie Hyson reports on racial justice and social equity for KPBS. Prior to joining KPBS, Katie reported on the same beat for the local NPR/PBS affiliate in Gainesville, Florida. She won awards for her enterprise reporting on the erasure of a Black marching band style from Gainesville’s fields, one woman’s fight to hold onto home as local officials closed her tent camp, and more. Many of her stories were picked up by national and international outlets, including those on a public charter school defying the achievement gap, the police K9 mauling of a man who ran from a traffic stop, and conditions for pregnant women at a nearby prison.
Prior to that beat, she supervised the newsroom’s student digital team, served as a producer for the award-winning serial podcast “Four Days, Five Murders,” taught journalism classes for the University of Florida, and designed and launched a practicum series. She helped create the university’s first narrative nonfiction magazine, Atrium. She also earned her master’s in mass communications there, in a stunning act of treachery to her undergraduate alma mater, Florida State University. She is an alumna of the 2019 summer cohort of AIR Full Spectrum.
Hyson entered journalism after a series of community-oriented jobs including immigration advising, organic farming, nonprofit sex worker assistance. She loves sunshine, adrenaline and a great story.
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Current students discuss what campus is like for them today, and administrators share their efforts toward equity. -
It’s not the first time school employees were accused of racism. Some alumni said accountability is long overdue. -
The paintings will be on display at the Mingei International Museum on Monday night. -
Adding folic acid to cereal reduced neural tube birth defects in the U.S. by more than a third. Now, legislators are proposing it be required in the masa flour used to make corn tortillas. -
The tragedy knit them together, and became a calling for a volunteer from outside of the neighborhood. -
The proposed reductions are to programs meant to help close racial and economic disparities in San Diego. Advocates are pushing back.
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San Diego has seen multiple antisemitic flyering incidents in recent months largely taking place in District 7, represented by Campillo. -
California’s first-in-the-nation reparations task force wraps up its historic work with a final report to lawmakers. -
Reported hate crimes increased in California in 2022, including instances of violence motivated by bias. That's according to state data released Tuesday.
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