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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Meet the candidates and learn what's at stake with KPBS' primary election guide for San Diego City Council races. -
Jackie Jo Lopez sought refuge at the Red Cross shelter at Lincoln High School. There, she said, she found community. -
Some residents have already received lease termination letters. Twenty-six-year-old mother Jocelyn Lopez braces to receive hers. Ever since the flood, she waits for unseen disasters. -
Advocates say they're the first of their kind in the U.S. -
Critics say the effects of the designation would further the neighborhood's history of racial segregation. -
Changes to state law expand the sealing of criminal records to most felonies. KPBS followed one San Diegan through the process.
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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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