Val Zavala
Val Zavala was anchor and executive producer of "SoCal Connected" until her retirement in 2018. Since joining KCET in 1987 she has won 15 L.A. Emmy awards. She has covered major issues in southern California politics, education, government, demographics, healthcare, environment, economy, and arts and culture. She has been honored for her community service by numerous organizations including the California Chicano News Media Association, and Hispanic Americans for Fairness in Media among others. She was a John S. Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University in 1993. She received her M.A. in journalism from American University and her B.A. in Latin American Studies from Yale University.
Val has a fashion crisis when she's picked as the Grand Marshall in Pasadena's Latino Heritage Parade.
Your lawn is brown. My lawn is brown. We're having a serious drought.
These days, dying is not a prerequisite to bargains.
I thought I’d go back to Sunset and Van Ness to see if our labors were all for naught - or if the plants we put in survived life in L.A.
This weekend I headed out to Temecula to begin shooting a most interesting story.
For our story on food waste, I went to the L.A. Regional Food Bank and talked with Michael Flood.
I did a webcam interview with Zac Sunderland who is sailing around the world solo, hoping to set a record as the youngest person to do that. Here are some bites that didn't make it on air.
Here in Hollywood/ Los Feliz we have the nation's biggest hospital. This $600 million Kaiser Medical Center opened in March. It is completely computerized, with electronic records, state-of-the-art equipment and spacious design.
$178,789 a year. That’s how much you’d be earning if you were an L.A. City Council member.
It’s hard to imagine that hundreds of thousands of Angelenos don’t have an ATM card, or a checking account, savings account, retirement account, etc.
What it's like to be a well-known concert pianist at 10 years old. And what it's like to raise one.
Angie Peacok describes the macho culture on the Army base in South Korea.