Kristen DeSilva
Audience Engagement SpecialistKristen DeSilva (she/her) is the audience engagement specialist for Nevada Public Radio. She curates and creates content for knpr.org, our weekly newsletter and social media for Nevada Public Radio and Desert Companion.
Prior to joining KNPR in 2022, she worked at KVVU-TV (FOX5 Vegas) and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. She’s won several state-level journalism awards, and has been nominated for a regional Emmy award.
Kristen grew up in — and is a fierce defender of — Las Vegas. She graduated with a BA in journalism and media studies from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She spends most of her free time outdoors, traversing the Silver State.
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Residents of the Bay Area were under a temporary tsunami warning on Thursday morning, after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast. In two minutes, the shock traveled in the earth hundreds of miles to the Nevada border, affecting the endangered Devils Hole pupfish. -
Between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve, the EPA estimates that waste in the U.S. increases by more than 25%, or by about 1 million tons. That’s 2 billion pounds of garbage. -
Yes, many of us in Nevada had this past Friday off for Nevada Day (observed), but the true Nevada Day is October 31, the anniversary of when Nevada became a state in 1864. -
If you want to see a comet passing Earth for the first time in 80,000 years, Wednesday night might be your last chance without a telescope. -
Clark County issued a smoke alert for Las Vegas on Thursday and Friday due to wildfire smoke from three large Southern California blazes. -
Officials on Monday said the Davis Fire is 85% contained. -
Officials at Death Valley National Park said a second person died from heat exposure in the desert park earlier this month. -
Multiple agencies are fighting the quickly-growing Gold Ranch Fire just west of Reno, alongside the town of Verdi. -
Death Valley experienced nine days above 125°F, and reached a scorching 129.2°F in July, the hottest month ever in the world's hottest place. -
Ozzie, a 9-year-old painting giraffe at Henderson's Lion Habitat Ranch, has died after a fall, according to a post by the organization on social media Friday morning.
