Vicky Diaz-Camacho
Community Reporter
Vicky Diaz-Camacho managed Kansas City PBS's journalism public engagement series, curiousKC. She is an EMMY-award winning producer and reporter for the monthly current affairs program, Flatland in Focus. Her reporting focuses on housing, health, education and culture. Her upbringing on the El Paso/Juarez border as a Mexican-Puerto Rican guides her methodology, which dissects current affairs and reports its impact on people in our community.
Stories by Vicky Diaz-Camacho
Tipping the Scale for a Living Wage Seems Oddly Correct
How much does a barista need to make to live comfortably in Kansas City? That's what Oddly Correct wanted to calculate.
Finding the Heart of the Kansas City Metro Area
curiousKC goes in search of the population center of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Lawrence Artist Celebrates People of Color
Lawrence artist Blanca Herrada celebrates family and friends, but the real goal is featuring people of color in her works.
Mexican Artist Returned to the U.S.-Mexico Border He Crossed as a Child
It took Israel Alejandro Garcia Garcia 30 years to take a trip back to the border where his family crossed into the U.S. Two exhibits show what he found.
Big Tree “A Living Monument” in Old Northeast
After Ben Jones moved into a house in Northeast Kansas City, he
In Kansas and Missouri, Immigrants are Rooted in the Agriculture Workforce
Rows of workers perch on ladders. They hoist hundred-pound baskets, which get heavier with every apple they pluck, around their necks. That’s the grind 14 hours a day, every day except for Sunday, while they earn maybe $13 an hour. These workers – mostly from Mexico – tend to the apple orchards in Waverly, Missouri….
Backers Continue Push for a Walt Disney Museum in Kansas City
Speeding up or down 31st Street at Forest Avenue, it’s easy to miss the wall-sized mural, “Thank You, Walt Disney.” That location was once the Laugh-O-Gram Studio, Disney’s first professional film studio and apartment, which lasted for only one year in 1923. However, in the past 20 years or so, an organization called “Thank You,…
Chinese Artist Uses Hair to Make Cultural and Family Connections
Chinese artist Hong Zhang uses hair in her ink and charcoal drawings as a metaphor to make cultural and family connections.
Artist Angel Otero Shares His ‘Diario’ at Kemper Museum
Angel Otero routinely punctuates his sentences with “it’s dope” and a chuckle. The 38-year-old artist from Santurce, Puerto Rico, is larger than life, but his mixed-media installation “Diario” at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art is even larger. It’s his largest work to date. The commissioned work is the fourth in the museum’s Atrium Project…
Personal Reflection | The Year My Hero Died Cast a Light on Mental Health
A grandfather's death inspires a granddaughter to reflect on his influence, and seek help to deal with her loss.