Alice Daniel
News DirectorA former News Director at KVPR, Alice Daniel created and produced the podcast The Other California with the help of a California Humanities Documentary Grant.
In addition to running the newsroom, she also managed numerous collaborative projects at KVPR including One Small Step and StoryCorps San Joaquin, both of which came out of a partnership with the NPR oral history project, StoryCorps.
Daniel has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and has worked as both a print and radio journalist. As a former correspondent for KQED’s The California Report, Daniel covered the Central Valley from Stockton to Bakersfield and beyond. In addition to her broadcast and newspaper work, Daniel was a lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications and Journalism at Fresno State for 17 years.
In 2017/2018, Daniel was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Ghana and lived in Accra with her family. She taught print and broadcast journalism to graduate students and assisted them with producing a live radio news show. She also started an oral history project on journalists who worked during Ghana’s transition from a military dictatorship to a democratic republic. A Fulbright Regional Travel Award allowed her to teach journalism seminars at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia in 2018. She worked at KVPR for close to four years before leaving in 2022 to live in Limerick, Ireland for a year.
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After climate disaster, families are often faced with a decision to rebuild or leave. People in the town of Big Creek, Calif., who made this choice two years ago, are still feeling the repercussions.
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A community is coming to terms with how to rebuild homes or start over elsewhere. -
World Refugee Day, Coalinga State Hospital patient update, Cal Fire investigation, FOOSA philharmonic -
Improving teacher diversity, Pride poetry and dance, plus some of the KVPR news team’s favorite stories. -
On this week’s Valley Edition: a look back at the life of Art Williams. The National League’s first black umpire started off as a farm worker in Bakersfield. Plus, Fresno State students explore the history of Fresno’s LGBTQ community in a new podcast. And we return to Woodlake for our final episode of The Other California. -
On this week’s Valley Edition: Why a technology to reduce methane emissions from dairies is stirring up controversy, even though it appears to be a great tool for fighting climate change. Plus, the problem of underrepresentation for Black teachers in Fresno Unified and what the district is doing to hire more. And a Bakerfield student reflects on her term with the CSU board of trustees. -
In this last episode of The Other California, we return to the town where we started, Woodlake. Here, Olga and Manuel Jimenez talk about the legacy of the Bravo Lake Botanical Garden and why listening to the stories of those we see as “the other” matter. -
On this week’s Valley Edition: an investigation looks back at the deadly COVID outbreaks at Foster Farms plants. Plus, a new state program meant to help low-income people with asthma by removing carpets, mold and other respiratory triggers in the home, is off to a clunky start. And local filmmakers compete for a grant to document undiscovered stories of the San Joaquin Valley. Listen to these stories and more. -
A Japanese farming community called Yamato Colony took roots in Livingston in 1907; by 1940, about 70 Japanese families were farming more than 3700 acres in Livingston. Two years later, its residents were sent away by the U.S. government to concentration camps. We meet 97-year-old Sherman Kishi, who returned after the war to grow grapes and then almonds on his farm. We also hear about the legacy of a Sikh family who left India fifty years ago and ended up creating a cultural oasis in Livingston. Plus, sweet potato farmers look back at when their families immigrated from the Azores.
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Plus, from KVPR’s new podcast The Other California, a profile of the Kern County City of Taft. The oil town’s future is uncertain as California turns toward green energy. Listen to this story and more on the podcast above.
