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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Instead of slowing down, Walter Phillips is pushing the pedals from San Francisco to San Diego in what he calls “one more adventure” for his organization. -
It’s not a place tsikuri would normally hang. They’re sacred to the indigenous Huichol people, who traditionally make them not for art but as protection and offerings. -
The Imperial County Board of Supervisors held a vote of “no confidence” in their auditor-controller just two weeks after they fired a top administrator. Then, the Grossmont Union High School District Board passes on a chance to prevent dozens of layoffs. Plus, proposed federal cuts to Medicaid put nearly half of San Diego’s Latino population at risk. -
Medicaid supporters rallied in Santee Wednesday as part of a week of protests targeting California Republican congress members. Plus, federal immigration officials are considering bringing controversial, life-threatening buoys to California. And, how Project 2025 is disrupting disease research at UCSD.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin visited with San Diego leaders Tuesday to discuss solutions to the cross-border sewage crisis. He also faced a group of protestors. Plus, how Project 2025 is impacting San Diegans. And, the city is lowering speed limits on a handful of commercial streets.
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The pieces in “The Art of Autism: A Different Lens" are as wide-ranging as the autism spectrum itself.
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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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