Kassidy Arena
Engagement ProducerKassidy Arena is the Engagement Producer for KBIA. In her role, she reports and produces stories highlighting underrepresented communities, focuses on community outreach and promoting media literacy. She was born in Berkeley, California, raised in Omaha, Nebraska and graduated with a degree in Journalism at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Kassidy comes to KBIA after finishing her full tour of service with Report for America working at Iowa Public Radio covering Latino, Spanish-speaking and immigrant communities. When she’s not at work, Kassidy enjoys playing with her rescue dog Reggie.
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The Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) has launched a new initiative focusing on access to culturally relevant foods. -
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A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows Missouri’s unemployment rate continues to stay lower than that of the country’s average.
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Reparation efforts in urban area are gaining national attention. But rural areas are taking their own steps toward righting historic wrongs.
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For a KBIA special series on substance use and opioid overdose death prevention, Columbia Police Department's Sgt. Dallas Dollens spoke with KBIA’s Kassidy Arena on December 9th about the opioid crisis in our community, and about what our community is doing to address it.
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