Maya Trabulsi

Maya Trabulsi is an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist who produces and anchors local newscasts for Weekend Edition on KPBS-FM. Additionally, Maya serves as a fill-in news anchor around All Things Considered and for KPBS Evening Edition. She also produces feature reports for the KPBS newsroom.

Maya was born in Beirut, Lebanon during the country’s civil war and was raised in Dubai and London under an American system of education. Maya came to San Diego after completing her BA in media communications with a minor degree in women’s studies from Webster University. While earning her master’s degree in television, film, and new media studies from San Diego State University, she worked for Channel 4 San Diego as a video editor on long-format news and sports magazine shows. Maya later joined the news team at a CNN-affiliated station in Riverside County, where she produced and covered local news for the Inland Empire as an evening news anchor and reporter.

Maya’s work has been recognized with first place awards for reporting and editing from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the San Diego Press Club. In 2017, Maya’s report on the DEA’s planned ban of a controversial supplement, which was titled “Kratom: Healing Herb or Dangerous Drug?”, won six awards, including two Golden Mic awards from the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California.