Kris Sanchez is in her 20th year of telling our community’s stories on NBC Bay Area and Telemundo 48. As a member of the “Today in the Bay” morning team, her specialty is thinking fast, often in English and Spanish! Kris covers our local issues, breaking news from the safety of our communities to natural disasters like wildfires and the many quakes large and small that rock our region. Kris also contributed to coverage that earned prestigious Murrow and Peabody Awards and was honored by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists for her feature, “Cesar Chavez, A Legacy of Hope.”
Before calling San Jose home, Kris anchored and reported in Grand Junction, Colorado, El Paso, Texas and Fresno. She also worked for Channel One news, a current events network for middle and high school students across the nation. As a correspondent, she covered the 2000 presidential campaign, covered the hand-over of the Panama Canal and humanitarian work in Guatemala.
Kris graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in Journalism and Spanish Language. As a journalist, Kris takes pleasure in being a life-long learner who can find the human element in every story. Her reporting philosophy is listen more, talk less. Kris is a governor with the Northern California Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and as an Emmy Awards vice-chair is helping to grow the Spanish competition. Off camera, Kris is married to a fellow journalist and together they are the proud parents of two teenaged daughters who are bilingual students in our public schools.
Many weekends you can find Kris reading or knitting under a pop-up tent at a swim meet somewhere around in the Bay Area.
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