KAWC Colorado River Public Media

KAWC Colorado River Public Media is a news service for western and southwestern Arizona licensed to Arizona Western College. Based in Yuma, Arizona, KAWC is one of very few public radio stations located along the U.S.-Mexico border. Our small staff attempts to cover stories in Yuma, Somerton, Parker, and San Luis, Arizona as well as San Luis, Rio Colorado, Mexico, in a geographic territory slightly larger than the entire state of Maryland.

 

Current Position

Location: Yuma, Arizona

Beat: Latino communities

Position:

This reporter is focused on the Latino community, a group disproportionately impacted by high unemployment—Yuma County often has the highest unemployment rate in the nation—and poverty. One in four children in Yuma County are food insecure, higher in the Latino community. Stories explore education (the local community college has one of the highest Latino first-generation populations in the country), political representation and more.

Reporter: Andrea Pérez Balderrama