Kerry Klein
ReporterKerry Klein is an award-winning reporter whose coverage of public health, air pollution, drinking water access and wildfires in the San Joaquin Valley has been featured on NPR, KQED, Science Friday and Kaiser Health News. Her work has earned numerous regional Edward R. Murrow and Golden Mike Awards and has been recognized by the Association of Health Care Journalists and Society of Environmental Journalists. Her podcast Escape From Mammoth Pool was named a podcast “listeners couldn’t get enough of in 2021” by the radio aggregator NPR One.
After growing up near Boston, Kerry graduated from McGill University with a B.S. in geology. When she began working as an exploration geologist and geothermal energy analyst, radio reporting was a distant and unlikely future. But she found new significance in media while hosting a talk show about science at a Montreal public radio station and later while producing a podcast for Science Magazine. She later returned to school to study science journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
When she’s not in front of a computer or microphone, Kerry can be found biking to the rock climbing gym, practicing her violin, sewing unnecessary but very cute articles of clothing, or wandering the Sierra foothills with her husband and daughter.
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A San Joaquin Valley dairy farmer recently earned a prestigious national award that only four other farmers in the state have won in the last 25 years. -
After failed deals with Trinity Health and Adventist Health to reopen Madera Community Hospital, two more companies are eyeing the facility.
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KVPR speaks with independent journalist Susie Cagle about her recent investigation into the construction of two state prisons on the edge of California’s Tulare Lake.
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When the Rabbit Fire ignited in late September, firefighters took advantage of weather and forest conditions to allow the fire to burn in a controlled manner, rather than immediately extinguishing it.
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The vast majority of the country’s table grapes are grown right here in the San Joaquin Valley. But this year, a freak summer storm took a big bite out of that production.
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A congressional delegation led by Democrat Senator Alex Padilla and Republican Representative Doug LaMalfa urges the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to “prioritize the critical emergency repairs” to levees in the area damaged by winter storms.
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On Tuesday, a judge issued a temporary restraining order against a Bakersfield aviation company following allegations that pesticides it had applied had drifted and harmed neighboring crops, pastureland and people.
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An interview with L.A. Times Reporter Jessica Garrison about her investigation into the local flood response after the re-emergence of Tulare Lake.
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Water officials detailed the preparations their agencies are making should El Niño drench California and strain reservoirs in the months ahead.
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In 2014, the mammoth groundwater management law known as SGMA promised to overhaul water use in the state. A recent conference showed how the rubber is hitting the road.
