Ericka Cruz Guevarra is a producer, reporter and sometimes host of KQED’s The Bay, a local news podcast about what it 
really means to live in the Bay Area. She reported a three part audio documentary on police killings in Vallejo, California where she was born, and reported on how a police killing in Walnut Creek motivated local residents to run for city council.
She’s drawn to local news stories from places where the light of journalism rarely shines these days. She produced this episode on the closure of a 161-year-old newspaper in Martinez, and this one on the tiny radio station in the North Bay relaying critical fire information in indigenous languages.
Before becoming a producer at KQED, Ericka was a breaking news reporter at Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland, a Code Switch intern at NPR, a Next Gen Radio fellow at KJZZ in Phoenix, and KQED’s inaugural Raul Ramirez Diversity Fund intern.
She be tweetin here.
Photo by Rochelle Nazareno
