Sylvia Maria Gross
Sylvia Maria Gross co-hosts and produces KC Currents, an award-winning weekly news magazine that covers news and culture in Kansas City’s diverse communities. Her stories have aired nationally on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace, The World and Studio 360. Gross grew up in New York City, Brazil and the suburbs of Washington, DC. She studied English at Yale University, and then spent a year researching arts education in Brazil on a Fulbright grant. When she returned from Brazil, she taught middle school math and English while completing a master's degree in journalism at Columbia University in New York City. She reported in New York about education and culture before moving to Kansas City in 2004.
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Segment 1: The Gay Softball World Series comes to Kansas City. As the Gay Softball World Series gets under way here in town, the Kansas City Royals host...
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Segment 1: Mahatma Gandhi's grandson reflects on his family legacy. As the world begins celebrating Gandhi's 150th birthday, Park University brings the...
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Segment 1: Kansas City Classics Among the new and noteworthy restaurants populating Kansas City, let’s not forget those that came first and have stuck...
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Segment 1: What's behind the statistics for maternal mortality in Missouri? Missouri ranks 42nd in the United States for maternal outcomes, with a...
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Segment 1: Tornado Aftermath On Tuesday night, a large tornado hit parts of Lawrence and Johnson County, causing several injuries and property damage...
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Segment 1: What happens to a community without access to a four-year college? The majority of college freshmen enroll at schools within 50 miles from...
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Segment 1: The culinary connection between New Orleans and Kansas City. Andrea Broomfield offers us a look at Cajun cuisine and its historical ties to...
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Segment 1: A KU sociology professor discovers a manifesto by George Orwell. A new book by David Smith, in collaboration with an artist, reveals there's...
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Midterm elections will soon be upon us, and we're curious-- will this be your first time voting? Whether you just turned 18, recently became a U.S....
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At one point in history, Atchison, Kansas was positioned to be one of the main connecting points for the railways between Missouri and Kansas. The town...