Mike Damron
Video JournalistMike Damron joined the KPBS team as a video journalist in 2019. He was born in Orlando and grew up in Navy towns like Jacksonville, Pensacola, and even abroad in Bermuda before graduating high school in Nashville. He joined the Navy six months before he graduated and was immediately shipped off to boot camp on the same base he was born. He attended the Navy School of Photography in Pensacola and served for more than ten years. The majority of his Navy career was spent in southeast Asia. He moved to San Diego from Atlanta and studied journalism at San Diego Mesa College. Mike previously worked at KUSI News where he got his start as a photojournalist.
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The group Students for Justice in Palestine organized what they said would be the biggest protest in the history of the campus. -
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Medicaid supporters rallied in front of Republican Rep. Darrell Issa's Santee office Wednesday. -
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