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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The Conversation's Catherine Cruz spoke to Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke about federal funding for broadband and early education programs. -
Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke says Hawaiʻi stands to lose $6 million in broadband funding under President Trump's proposed spending bill; Tips on how to identify Medicare scams -
Bob Richmond, a coral scientist and head of the University of Hawaiʻi Kewalo Marine Laboratory, spoke to HPR about the science behind protected areas like the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine Reserve. -
Jesse Owens, an assistant professor at the University of Hawaiʻi Biogenesis Institute, spoke to The Conversation about his gene research and displaying it at a national conference. -
Mark Glick, chief of the Hawaiʻi State Energy Office, spoke to The Conversation's Catherine Cruz about the fragility of our energy reserves and the sense of urgency to diversify our energy portfolio. -
Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against President Trump's move to relax protections in the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument; The UH Institute for Biogenesis Research provides an update on advances in gene editing -
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.
