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On Valley Edition: Restorative Justice; Peach Week; KVPR's Book Club 'Homegrown'

Ezra Romero
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Valley Public Radio

This week on Valley Edition we take a look at the end of the school year and the start of summer. Valley Public Radio's Rebecca Plevin reports on how one Valley school's restorative justice program outshines many in the region. 

Valley Edition host Joe Moore interviews Mas, Marcy and Nikiko Masumoto about their new book 'The Perfect Peach." Later in the program FM89 reporter Rebecca Plevin talks with Joe Moore about Valley Public Radio's new book club 'Homegrown.' 

Guests in this week's program

Restorative Justice - Rebecca Plevin, FM89 Reporter  (@harvesthealth)

The Perfect Peach - Mas, Marcy & Nikiko Masumoto, Farmers and Authors (@nmasumoto)

Homegrown: KVPR Book Club - Rebecca Plevin, FM89 Reporter  (@harvesthealth)

Joe Moore is the President and General Manager of KVPR / Valley Public Radio. He has led the station through major programming changes, the launch of KVPR Classical and the COVID-19 pandemic. Under his leadership the station was named California Non-Profit of the Year by Senator Melissa Hurtado (2019), and won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting (2022).
Rebecca Plevin was a reporter for Valley Public Radio from 2013-2014. Before joining the station, she was the community health reporter for Vida en el Valle, the McClatchy Company's bilingual newspaper in California's San Joaquin Valley. She earned the George F. Gruner Award for Meritorious Public Service in Journalism and the McClatchy President's Award for her work at Vida, as well as honors from the National Association of Hispanic Publications and the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Plevin grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She is also a fluent Spanish speaker, a certified yoga teacher, and an avid rock-climber.
Ezra David Romero is an award-winning radio reporter and producer. His stories have run on Morning Edition, Morning Edition Saturday, Morning Edition Sunday, All Things Considered, Here & Now, The Salt, Latino USA, KQED, KALW, Harvest Public Radio, etc.
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