Ashley Rodriguez
Diversity, Engagement, & Grants CoordinatorAshley Rodriguez is a coordinator in KPBS’ Diversity, Community Engagement and Grants department, tasked with building relationships with diverse communities and leaders in San Diego. In collaboration with community organizations, schools, and other public media stations, Ashley coordinates events tied to KPBS and PBS programs such as Not In Our Town and Freedom Riders. She also coordinates engagement activities for the multi-station collaborative Fronteras: The Changing America Desk. Ashley began working at KPBS as a part-time assistant while attending San Diego State University. In 2011, Ashley was awarded the Susan and Stephen L. Weber Education and Community Engagement Fellow and graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in international security and conflict resolution.
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Composer Laura Kaminsky's intimate new opera, Lucidity, centers on an aging opera singer, portrayed by the 80-year-old soprano Lucy Shelton, dealing with the effects of memory loss. -
Foreign laborers, many from Thailand, are tending fields and livestock in an area Israel has declared off-limits to its own civilians amid ongoing military operations against Hezbollah. -
The sale must be approved by a bankruptcy judge. Proceeds will go to paying down the $1.5 billion debt that Jones owes families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims who won two defamation suits against him. -
A local nonprofit is teaching seniors how to fall safely or not at all. -
Groups that connect elders and teens — both in real life and online — have a new sense of urgency in the loneliness epidemic. -
Groups trying to reduce overdose deaths and the spread of infectious diseases are using vending machines to get clean needles, pipes, wound care kits, Narcan and other safety supplies to drug users.
- Escondido to charge property owners for long-vacant commercial buildings
- Report suggests bigger vehicles, slow construction timelines led to San Diego's 'Vision Zero' failure
- Public urged to look out for 'wildcatters' at San Diego's border crossings
- Larry Turner concedes mayoral race as Todd Gloria wins 2nd term
- Kaiser mental health workers strike at San Diego Medical Center, other California locations