Catherine Cruz
Host, The ConversationCatherine Cruz is the host of The Conversation and a member of HPR’s news team. She has been a television reporter in Hawaiʻi since 1983 and has won a number of awards and respect from a statewide audience. She spent more than 30 years at KITV, covering beats from government to education and health. Originally from Guam, Cruz is also a co-founder and former board member and programming chair of Pacific Islanders in Communication (PIC). Catherine is a graduate of San Francisco State University with a degree in broadcast journalism.
Contact her at ccruz@hawaiipublicradio.org.
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In the news earlier this month was a story about baby KJ, who made headlines because of a custom treatment he received for a rare genetic disorder. That treatment was thanks to gene editing and the CRISPR technique. Hawaiʻi-born Jennifer Doudna, along with her colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 for that discovery. -
Byron Goo of the Hawaiʻi Pacific Export Council and of Tea Chest Hawaii spoke to The Conversation about the effects of tariffs on the business of tea. -
Byron Goo, CEO of Tea Chest Hawaiʻi, talks about how tariffs are affecting the tea trade; Jennifer Doudna, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, discusses developments in gene-editing with CRISPR -
Friday kicks off the 12th year that Ken Martinez Burgmaier has put together the Big Island Jazz and Blues Festival at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel. The Conversation talked to him about what to expect for the four-day festival. -
Ralph Gaston of Rusty's Hawaiian Coffee lays out how tariffs are affecting Kona coffee growers; Overstory's Noelle Fujii-Oride reports on a new program to support mental wellness among farmers -
Safety is behind a new pedestrian overpass that spans mauka to makai, over Ala Moana Boulevard, connecting Kakaʻako to the entrance to Ala Moana Beach Park and Kewalo Basin. -
Jalene Kanani, designer of NOHO HOME, discusses how her micromanufacturing factory is staying resilient despite being affected by tariffs. -
Designer Jalene Kanani of Noho Home talks about how tariffs are affecting her textile business; Kaila Chung, director of Hui Kaululehua, leads the first Polynesian Cultural Festival in Louisville, Kentucky -
Today on The Conversation, we're taking an in-depth look at how tariffs are affecting Hawaiʻi businesses. -
Former University of Hawaiʻi Vice Chancellor and current urban planning professor Karl Kim and three of his graduate students discuss different scenarios of planning efforts for Downtown Honolulu.
