News Producer

News Producer

Kris Vera-Phillips is an Emmy Award-winning journalist with more than 14 years of experience producing news shows and special projects.

Newsroom Leader

Newsroom Leader

She served on the national board of the Asian American Journalists Association. She mentors student journalists with AAJA Voices, NPR’s Next Generation Radio Fellowship, and PBS NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs.

Award-Winning Journalist

Award-Winning Journalist

Her work has been recognized by the Associated Press Television-Radio Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the San Diego Press Club.

Kris Vera-Phillips is an experienced newsroom leader with a passion for investigating identity, representation, and power in news media and popular culture.

At KPBS San Diego, Kris managed news content and editorial direction for KPBS Evening Edition and KPBS Roundtable. In public media, she supervised producers, video journalists, and anchors and collaborated with newsroom managers on daily news stories for all KPBS platforms: television, radio, and digital.

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She continues her work of training and mentoring the next generation of journalists as a Ph.D. candidate and faculty associate at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.