Stephanie Kuo
Producer/ReporterFormer KERA staffer Stephanie Kuo is an award-winning radio journalist who worked as a reporter and administrative producer at KERA, overseeing and coordinating editorial content reports and logistics for the Texas Station Collaborative – a statewide news consortium including KERA, KUT in Austin, Houston Public Media and Texas Public Radio in San Antonio.
Stephanie’s reporting focused on the intersection of poverty, homelessness and urban development. She's won awards from the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association, the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters Association and the Public Radio News Directors Inc.
Stephanie received a Master of Science from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, in its radio program, and a bachelor's in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. Before coming to KERA in 2014, she spent three years in New York, working as an editor and producer at WFUV in the Bronx, and reporting on urban issues, like hunger, homelessness and the impacts of gentrification. Stephanie is originally from Plano, Texas.
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From the temporarily delayed Senate Bill 4, which cracks down on "sanctuary cities," to the decision to wind down a program that gives work permits to…
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The top local stories this morning from KERA News:The U.S. Supreme Court has dealt a serious setback to the efforts toward reconfiguring Texas'…
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The top local stories this morning from KERA News:Fort Worth estimates its cost to help with Hurricane Harvey will come to around $1 million.The Fort…
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Top Stories: Police Investigate Plano Shooting; Truck Crashes Into Crane Removing Confederate StatueThe top local stories this morning from KERA News:Seven people and their attacker are dead after a shooting at a home in Plano Sunday night.A police…
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Five stories that have North Texas talking: Houston volunteer who died over the weekend was a DACA recipient; Beyoncé celebrates her 36th birthday; a…
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Five stories that have North Texas talking: Dallas takes in hundreds of new evacuees from Beaumont; Troy Aiken gets married; first responders from out of…
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A federal judge's decision to block the so-called "sanctuary cities" bill has immigration advocates in North Texas cheering — but the fight to stop the…
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President Trump called the opioid crisis in the United States a national emergency last week, and Texas has joined a coalition of states to investigate…
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The top local stories this morning from KERA News:Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings will hold a press conference at noon Tuesday to address the white nationalist…
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The top local stories this morning from KERA News:Amid news about the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, came word of an anti-white supremacy…
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Nearly half a million plant specimens that are native to Louisiana will soon take up residence at Fort Worth’s Botanical Research Institute of Texas –…
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These Girls In Vickery Meadow Are Changing The Conversation Around Women And Race One Zine At A TimeIn Dallas’ refugee-rich Vickery Meadow neighborhood, there’s a group of artists that’s determined to change the conversation around women and race. These…