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

Colorful illustrations of nursing staff, physicians and other medical staff are scattered on a backdrop of multi-colored half circles.

curiousKC | Submit A Community Letter to KC’s Health Care Workers

What do you want to share about a health care worker in your life?

From left to right: Hickman Mills sophomore Saathvik Kannan, MU principal investigator Kamal, Singh, and MU undergraduate Austin Spratt. They're working together at Bond Life Sciences Center in Columbia to identify new SARS-CoV-2 variants. (Credit: Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center”)

MU Professor, High Schooler and Undergraduate Mathematician Lead the Research on Variants

At MU, a veteran scientist, high schooler and undergraduate student identified 46 mutations of the omicron variant.

Hospital staff in Personal Protective Equipment such as robes, gloves and masks, treat a patient. This image accompanies our prompt that invites you, the public, to ask questions you want answered about health care.

curiousKC | What Stories Do You Want to See About Health Care?

Next up, Flatland's team focuses on the questions you want to know about health care. See our previous coverage and write to us here.

Medical staff walk through or aid patients in a hospital hallway. Image from Canva

Kansas City Doctor Leads Nationwide Study on Long COVID

A new clinical trial study aims to learn why some adults infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus develop long COVID and why others don't.

A graduate holds flowers with his grandparents flanking each side. The words "The Filter" podcast name is overlaid with yellow and green accents.

The Filter | A Lesson on Grief and Resilience

Is it possible to break through the mental fog of loss? In this show, we learn how to embrace grief while also finding joy from counselors and scientists.

A row of police line up in the middle of the street on the Country Club Plaza, flanked by demonstrators on the left and right.

curiousKC | Inform Our Next Episode on Police in KC

curiousKC invites you to weigh in. Submit your questions about the police's role in our community here.

Natural gas meter.

Many Feel the Chill of Mounting Utility Bills

Kansas Citians struggling to make ends meet face utility debt, especially if they live in poorly weatherized homes. What support is out there?

Hosts Vicky Diaz-Camacho and Ieshia Downton pose with their guest Oscar Orozco. A collage of yellow and green against a paper-like background frames the image with "The Filter podcast" logo on the top left corner.

Trailer: Listen to a Teaser of the Filter’s Season Finale

In this teaser, you'll get a peek at what episode four is about: belief systems and misinformation.

Martin Luther Jr. stands at a pulpit, with a light shining behind him. Jr. was a speaker at the Mammoth Rally on May 3 in the late 1950s.

Q&A: KU Professor Randal Jelks on the New Book, ‘Letters to Martin’

In the form of letters to Martin Luther King Jr., author Randal Jelks said he wants to give readers hope.

Lulu Livingston explains how the unhoused community survives, despite having to constantly move around the city.

curiousKC | Your Questions On Homelessness Are Up For A Vote

What questions about homelessness should our journalists report on next? You decide.

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