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Michele Ravera is in the KUNR studios. She is looking at the camera and smiling.

Michele Ravera

KUNR Morning Edition Host

Michele Ravera joined KUNR in 2014 as a volunteer and was added to the broadcast staff in October 2015. She is currently the station’s host for Morning Edition.

Ravera produces a Wednesday garden segment "In the Weeds with Urban Roots Teaching Farm," and book segments twice a week with the Washoe County Library System including On the Shelf and On the Kids' Shelf.

She graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelor of Science in Communications. Her first radio experience was reading Sunday comics on the air to people with a vision impairment.

She spent her formative years inside the Capital Beltway and has lived in several large cities and small towns including Gerlach, Nevada, before making Reno home.

At 17 she began her broadcasting career and has been a DJ, recording engineer, airborne traffic reporter and talk show producer. She also ran karaoke at a bowling alley. Ravera enjoys exploring Nevada where she loves to camp, practice photography, rockhound, and garden.