Sherrilyn Cabrera
Senior ProducerSherrilyn Cabrera is WLRN's senior producer, overseeing the newsroom's daily excerpts that air midday during NPR/WBUR's Here & Now, as well as overseeing our local afternoon newscasts that air during All Things Considered.
Sherrilyn got her start in journalism as a 2019 spring and summer intern for WLRN. After completing her internship, she continued to report, anchor and produce for the newsroom as a freelancer.
During the 2020 election, she was a reporting fellow for TCPalm, helping cover the election and its impact on local communities along the Treasure Coast. The following year, she worked with Boston NPR member station WBUR as an associate producer for newscasts and worked with the newsroom's digital team.
A Miami native, Sherrilyn is a proud alumni of Miami Dade College and Florida International University, where she earned her journalism degrees. She is a fierce advocate for local news and is proud she gets to work in it — in her hometown.
She can be reached at scabrera@wlrnnews.org
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The South Beach Wine & Food Festival began at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus in 1997 as a one-day, student-run event. Today, it’s one of the country's largest culinary festivals. But one thing hasn’t changed: the FIU connection and the students behind the scenes. -
Family members of those killed in the 2018 Parkland school mass shooting are demanding accountability from the Broward County Commission and Broward Sheriff’s Office for operational failures during the deadly incident. -
Florida Senate Bill 1464 allows schools to partner with local food banks or nonprofits to recover and redistribute edible cafeteria food. -
Free water taxis between Miami and Miami Beach will begin running on Tuesday, Jan. 20 starting at 8:30 a.m.
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Urban planning firm PlusUrbia and residents of Little Havana envisioned a safer, pedestrian-friendly Calle Ocho. Ten years later, the plan remains largely unimplemented. -
Republican Jon Maples and Democrat Emily Gregory will square off in a March 24 special election for Palm Beach County’s House District 87.
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According to a recent report from the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, the rail way surpassed 4.5 million rides in the 2025 calendar year. -
According to County Clerk Mike Caruso, cases have surged from four to 180 in two years. Senior citizens are disproportionately targeted by property fraud and other scams.
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The Japanese women’s pro-wrestling show Sukeban tackled Miami Art Week, bringing fashion, music, fighting and Japanese culture together at the Miami Beach Bandshell. Wrestlers Ichigo Sayaka and Atomic Banshee put on a spectacle as they fought for the Sukeban championship title. -
Hundreds of thousands of South Florida households will struggle to put food on the table this Thanksgiving. Feeding South Florida had 15,000 turkeys on hand this year to distribute — which still wasn’t enough to meet demand. -
In Elisa Turner's Art Boom: Local Vision to International Presence, the award-winning art critic documents pivotal moments and artists in Miami’s art history that helped put the city’s art scene on a global stage. -
In Miramar, immigration enforcement officials celebrated a Florida operation that resulted in the arrests and deportation of more than 230 people in 10 days. And they made it clear they will not make exceptions for Venezuelans who recently lost their legal status.
