Monterey Bay This Week: Election results and voter voices, free park passes, a flood planning tool, and more

Katie Brown comes to KAZU after earning spot news and investigative journalism awards for her reporting and photography in Maine. A Report for America alumna and former Metcalf Institute fellow, Katie’s reporting beats span business, environment, and public health.

Jocelyn Corona is a fall 2026 intern at KAZU and a Humanities and Communication student at California State University, Monterey Bay, concentrating in Journalism. Originally from Southern California, she has written for CSUMB’s student newspaper, The Lutrinae, and studied journalism abroad at University College London.

PK Hattis joined the KAZU News team as a reporter/producer/host in 2026. A home-grown local journalist through and through, PK was born and raised in Santa Cruz County and has been reporting on Central Coast communities since 2020. Before coming aboard at KAZU, he worked for more than four years at the Santa Cruz Sentinel newspaper where he covered the county Board of Supervisors, healthcare and transportation beats, among others. He also hosted KSQD's flagship public affairs show "Talk of the Bay" for more than two years.

Amy Mayer is an award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of experience in public radio. Before KAZU, she worked as an editor for the California Newsroom and at St. Louis Public Radio. For eight years, she covered agriculture as the Harvest Public Media reporter based at Iowa Public Radio. She's also worked at stations in Massachusetts and Alaska and has written for many newspapers, magazines and online news outlets.

Ellie's work has appeared in Mother Jones, KQED, KALW and Street Spirit. They are an alum of UCSC and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
email: epm@kazu.org
signal: ElliePrickett-Morgan.96

Aspen Stuart-Cunningham joins KAZU as a reporting intern covering this year’s El Niño season and other local science and environmental news. She is a current Master’s student in the UCSC Science Communication Program.

aspen@kazu.org