Stefania has considered herself an amateur journalist ever since she stapled papers together from her mother's printer to "draft" stories about her neighborhood when she was in first grade. Currently Stefania serves as the Kansas Leadership Center Journal’s civic engagement reporter, with a primary focus on covering homelessness in Wichita and occasionally Kansas-wide. She is KLC’s first-ever staff reporter.Before that, she reported for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, where she wrote on a range of topics, including an investigation on how state laws fail to properly invest in mental health, how Southwest Florida renters fall victim to ambiguous contracts, and taking part in national USA TODAY coverage reporting on Hurricane Ian’s devastation as well as the overturn of Roe vs. Wade.Prior to Floirda, Stefania worked as the inaugural watchdog reporter for The Wichita Beacon, a nonprofit newsroom in Wichita, The Boston Globe and the GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a former criminal justice fellow for the National Press Foundation as well as a past data fellow for Investigative Reporters & Editors.Stefania is a second-generation Venezuelan-American — a proud daughter and baby sister to Venezuelan immigrants. She grew up in Cape Coral, Florida and attended college in Boston.She is passionate about implementing diversity in the workplace — top to bottom. She sums up her career as one who unflinchingly reports stories of humanity's best and worst through explanatory, investigative or data journalism. Stefania has accolades from the Kansas Press Association and the Suncoast Student Academy Emmys. She is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and Investigative Reporters & Editors, inc.
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