Andrew Lopez
Korva Coleman Diversity in Journalism InternAndrew Lopez is the Korva Coleman Diversity in Journalism Intern at KMUW this summer. He is currently a student at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and is on track to earn a Masters of Journalism degree next year.
His passion for public radio was sparked in his childhood growing up in East Los Angeles and his hometown, Whittier, CA. He earned a Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts degree from San Francisco State University in 2016 and after graduation, hosted a music show on a community radio station, worked at an independent record label in San Francisco and began substitute teaching in Oakland.
Since joining the J-School, his work has been published on The Oaklandside and Oakland North, where he covered culture and community in the East Bay. He has also reported and mixed episodes for North Gate Radio on KALX. Outside of Wichita, he shares an apartment with his girlfriend and two cats in Oakland.
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Senior citizens who want to live in the same rural towns where they grew up face a growing problem ... how to get around. Unreliable transportation means many seniors have trouble shopping for groceries, visiting family and getting to medical care. However, there might be one solution. -
San Francisco’s Community Ambassadors Program uses a human touch in working with homeless populationAs Wichita continues to figure out how to best work with its homeless population, San Francisco uses a non-law enforcement program to build trust and visibility in its neighborhoods. -
Conservationists say habitat loss and climate change have led to a decline in the number of monarchs over the past three decades. -
Discover a local painter who finds inspiration on the streets of Wichita. -
Wichita Wind Surge players will be sporting their Tumba Vacas uniforms for the last time this season on Saturday. They'll face the Pointy Boots de Amarillo about 6 p.m. at Riverfront Stadium. -
Nine historic and vintage aircraft will be on display at the B-29 Doc Hangar starting Wednesday. -
The Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, a landmark case that established constitutional protections for abortion in the United States. -
A Wichita farmer is raising a kaleidoscope of butterflies in his Riverside home. -
A political organization wants to regulate abortion by passing a state constitutional amendment in the August primary election. The proposed amendment says there is no right to abortion in Kansas. -
Both SENSES and the Youth Arts Exhibition feature work from local artists with visual impairments, blindness or other physical or cognitive disabilities.
