Melaina Spitzer
Freelance ReporterAs a general assignment reporter for KPBS, Melaina Spitzer covers stories that range from climate change to immigration, politics and homelessness. Prior to joining KPBS, Melaina spent fourteen years reporting for BBC/PRI’s The World, Latino USA, and Marketplace from Southern Africa, Europe, and South America, where she lived for seven years. Melaina began her journalism career at WBUR and WGBH in Boston, where she worked for national radio programs Here and Now, The World, and Morning Edition. Melaina completed her Master’s in Peace, Conflict and Security as a Rotary World Peace Fellow where she studied cross-border issues and the Colombian armed conflict. Melaina is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and was awarded the CV Starr National Service Fellowship to cover the Cypriot Peace Process. In addition to her work in journalism, Melaina is a certified trainer for the National Conflict Resolution Center. She enjoys supporting rising women leaders and serves on the Steering Committee for Women for Social Impact at the University of San Diego.
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KPBS Midday EditionLice, chickenpox and the flu are some of the ailments migrant families suffer from when they arrive at the temporary migrant shelter in San Diego. -
This week new regulations go into effect for dockless scooters in San Diego. -
transcenDANCE wants to teach teenagers to dance and take pride in themselves. -
The environmental group Heal the Bay published its annual report card with a mixed review for San Diego’s beaches. -
In Arizona, the Scott Warren case resulted in a mistrial on Tuesday after jurors couldn’t decide whether it was a crime for Warren to help migrants. In San Diego, humanitarian groups worry they could be targeted by federal officials also. -
The director of the "Wesley House" at SDSU says there are currently more than 3,000 unsheltered students at San Diego State University, and the problem is even worse at community colleges.
- 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