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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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.
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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.
- Two San Diego nonprofits are poised to lose promised environmental justice grants — but the EPA has yet to tell them
- Bob Filner, disgraced ex-mayor of San Diego, dies at 82
- Trump administration considers immigration detention on Bay Area military base, records show
- San Diego County releases dashboard compiling on South County sewage
- California sent investigators to ICE facilities. They found more detainees, and health care gaps
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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. -
Each segment on the song rail plays a palindrome, which means the melody is the same played in both directions. -
A group of San Diego women in their late 50s and 60s hiked up Mount Kilimanjaro in February 2023. -
What many people don’t know about Peter Seidler is his infectious optimism for creating a better future for San Diego’s homeless population. -
A sanctuary in Santa Ysabel trains foxes in search and rescue nosework. -
Rescue organizations from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border were called to a puppy mill in Rosarito. What they found was horrifying. -
A lab that conducts studies for a San Diego-based pharmaceutical company is facing scrutiny over its use of beagles. -
Manpower hiring expert touts flexible work models for his employees — and the larger workforce
