Andrea Figueroa
KUNR On-Air Host and ReporterAndrea has been a host at KUNR since 2022. She enjoys working as a reporter focusing on health, fire alerts, and underserved communities. She is a graduate from the Reynolds School of Journalism, and has worked on stories regarding protests, strikes, and water access. She has been in broadcasting and media production since her internship days in high school.
Andrea was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and loves her family and online English students. She was raised in Nevada after Hawaii and, no, still doesn’t handle the cold of the region very well. Travel, food, and tennis are some of her interests.
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Across the United States, a service called Watch Duty has filled the need for up-to-date fire and evacuation reporting. Listen as KUNR’s Andi Figueroa sits down with Don Zirbel and Sekhar Padmanabhan, two of Watch Duty’s staff reporters, on what it takes to sound the alarm. -
Last month, Professor Todd Felts of the Reynolds School of Journalism unexpectedly passed away. He was 54. -
Some patients have seen long-COVID symptom relief with mRNA vaccines. -
March 5th marked three years since the first COVID case in Nevada. In that time, treatments have emerged to give relief to patients now suffering the effects of long COVID.
