Joy Diaz
Texas Standard reporter Joy Diaz has amassed a lengthy and highly recognized body of work in public media reporting. Prior to joining Texas Standard, Joy was a reporter with Austin NPR station KUT on and off since 2005. There, she covered city news and politics, education, healthcare and immigration.
Originally from Mexico, Joy moved to the U.S. in 1998 when her husband Luis was transferred from his job in Mexico City to Virginia. While there, Joy worked for Roanoke NPR station WVTF.
Joy speaks English and Spanish (which is a plus in a state like Texas). She graduated from Universidad de Cuautitlán Izcalli in Mexico City with a degree in Journalism. In 2008 she took a break to devote herself to her two young children, before returning to the KUT studios. She loves reading, painting and spending time engaging with the community.
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From Texas Standard: In 2014, a Cleveland police officer killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was playing at a park with a toy gun – a gun that police...
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From Texas Standard: Many more women and young children are migrating to the U.S. than in years past. But the academic research about their experiences...
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From Texas Standard : Texas news outlets often report on death penalty stories, given that the state leads the nation in prisoner executions. But rarely...
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From Texas Standard: More than a dozen Democrats are running for president, and entrepreneur Andrew Yang is one of them. He's the first Asian-American...
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From Texas Standard: A global controversy erupted after a Chinese scientist claimed to have used the gene-editing tool CRISPR to manipulate genes in the...
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Vatican officials have just wrapped up an unprecedented four-day gathering, all about the sexual abuse that’s shaken the church to its core. At the same...
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From Texas Standard: You may have noticed a lot more dollar stores than you did just a few years ago. Since 2011, numbers of the discount stores have...
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From Texas Standard: "Unidentified: How Kids Can Age Out Of Texas Foster Care Without Documentation" is a series of reports from Texas Standard about...
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From Texas Standard: The name Georgia O'Keeffe probably brings to mind images of giant, brightly-colored flowers, or the artist's famous skulls, sunsets...
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From Texas Standard: Frank Vickers of Bastrop was on the couch watching “Jeopardy!” when there was a knock on the door. Before he could get up, a...
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From Texas Standard: On Saturday, Mexico will inaugurate a new president who campaigned on a "Mexico First" platform. Alfredo Corchado , Mexico-border...
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From Texas Standard : At first glance, Jews and Latinos may appear to have very little in common. That impression may begin to change somewhat on...