Maya Trabulsi
KPBS Evening Edition AnchorMaya Trabulsi is an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist who anchors KPBS Evening Edition. Maya was born in Beirut and grew up in Dubai and the United Kingdom. She came to San Diego after completing her B.A. in media communications with a minor degree in women’s studies from Webster University. She also holds a master’s degree in television, film, and new media studies from San Diego State University.
Since joining KPBS in 2014, Maya’s work has been recognized both regionally and nationally with first place awards for reporting and video editing from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Society of Professional Journalists, Radio and Television News Association, and the National Press Club.
In 2023, the San Diego Press club honored her investigative reporting on animal welfare issues with a first place award for her body of work. In 2024, Maya received her 8th and 9th Golden Mike awards, as well as a second Emmy for journalistic enterprise. She later received national recognition for her investigation into an unscrupulous dog breeder operating on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border when she won the Ann Cottrell Free award from the National Press Club.
Maya is an avid martial artist and holds a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
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A stroll through Escondido’s Felicita Park is a journey not only through nature but also through time, as visitors can uncover remnants of a centuries-old Kumeyaay Indian village. -
Grape Day Park has long been a gathering place in Escondido — and a reflection of the city’s changing identity. -
Fallbrook Gourd Farm honors the culturally significant fruit -
The Trees For Health garden in Balboa Park introduces San Diegans to the medicinal uses of plants growing all around them. -
KPBS Explores Hidden San Diego shows us a butterfly garden with a unique past. -
Babs Fry is committed to recovering lost animals as a community service to San Diegans.
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California is joining with the federal government to open two new vaccination centers as test areas for new President Joseph Biden’s effort to create 100 mass vaccination sites nationwide in 100 days.
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- Los Angeles houses of worship plan for possible ICE raids
- Camp Mystic asked to remove buildings from government flood maps despite risk
- Israeli settlers beat U.S. citizen to death in West Bank
- Wildfire destroys a historic Grand Canyon lodge and other structures
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The new wave of shutdowns leaves some businesses unable to move outside. -
This year marks a century since the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Winning women the right to vote, however, was an effort launched decades before it was passed, with national and local campaigns securing small victories that led to final ratification in 1920. -
A Southern California organization continues to support the female veteran community 100 years on. -
Airlines scale back their flight schedules due to reduced demand amid the coronavirus outbreak, mortgage rates fall as a result of the Federal Reserve interest rate cut to boost the global economy and how the failure of Measure C will affect San Diego's convention business. -
The majority of voters appear to have rejected a Lemon Grove initiative to raise the city's sales tax in a bid to fix an ongoing budget deficit, which could mean the city becomes part of unincorporated San Diego County. -
With 350,000 ballots to be counted countywide, it appears two Republicans will face off against each other in November in the race to replace Dianne Jacob on the County Board of Supervisors. -
The San Diego Unified School District showcases a proposed hydration station aimed at removing lead contamination -
New SDSU research shows common foods can have a powerful and positive effect on the human microbiome. -
This week in business: the coronavirus may take a bite out of Apple's second-quarter profits, retailer Pier 1 plans to close nearly all its stores, and USC announces a new tuition plan for low- and middle-income students. -
'San Diego For Every Child' works to meet the needs of impoverished San Diego children.
