Alyssa Ramos
Multimedia ProducerAlyssa Ramos is a multimedia producer for WLRN’s Morning Edition.
She graduated May 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Florida.
Her writing career began in front of her grandfather’s split-pea green typewriter where she crafted mysteries à la Nancy Drew. Eventually, she began to sharing the lives of real people.
As a Filipina American who grew up in rural Central Florida, she aligned her interests: covering communities of color in Southern spaces.
Alyssa is an advocate for local news after spending more than four years covering the heart of North Central Florida as a reporter and later on as TV20’s weekend producer in Gainesville.
She was also a fellow for the Asian American Journalist Association’s VOICES program, during which she traveled across the state to explore the Asian American diaspora’s relationship with agriculture.
In her spare time, you can catch her baking sweet treats, mastering her crow pose in yoga or curating playlists on Spotify.
Contact Alyssa at aramos@wlrnnews.org
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This year marks the centennial anniversary of the Girl Scouts of Tropical Florida. To celebrate the occasion, a new exhibit at the HistoryMiami Museum showcases 100 years of what it means to be a girl scout in South Florida. -
House Bill 415 would give the state oversight of the licensing and permitting process of temporary commercial kitchens around the state — think ghost kitchens or kitchens in portable trailers — which grew in popularity for take-out and delivery options as restaurants struggled.
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A Miami native sets out to walk the length of the Florida Trail, starting in Pensacola down to Big Cypress in Miami.
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Motorists who speed through selected school zones on the Florida Keys Overseas Highway during the holidays might get an onion from the Grinch instead of a traffic citation.
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A runoff election in Doral, on Dec. 13, will determine the last outstanding Miami-Dade County municipal races from the 2022 General Elections. Here is how to make sure your vote counts.
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The Miami Heat's Golden Oldies returns for the basketball team's 35th season. The senior dance crew for people over the age of 60 formed around 2004 and since then, they've been burning up the basketball court with their dance moves.
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In a post-Roe v Wade world, the move of student athlete health information online has led to an outcry over reproductive privacy. WLRN spoke with the Palm Beach Post's Katherine Kokal, who reported on the story.
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Robert Santos is the 26th director of the U.S. Census Bureau and the first Latino to hold that position. He spoke on Sundial Now about how he wants to establish more trust and engage with more Black and Latino communities.
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Robert Santos is the 26th director of the U.S. Census Bureau and the first Latino to hold that position. He spoke on Sundial Now about how he wants to establish more trust and engage with more Black and Latino communities.
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Immigration advocates in South Florida are urging the Biden administration to designate and extend Temporary Protected Status for Central Americans countries.
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Miami's latest effort to address the affordable housing crisis would allow mid-rise buildings to be built near transit routes in Miami and for homeowners in certain areas to build extra dwelling units in their property.
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It's peak hurricane season in South Florida... but where are all the storms? On this week's South Florida Roundup, we marked the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Irma's landfall, got an update on the storms currently swirling in the Atlantic and looked at a new plan to address the housing affordability problem in Miami-Dade County.
