Mayowa Aina
Special Projects Reporter and ProducerMayowa Aina covers cost-of-living and affordability issues in Western Washington. She focuses on how people do (or don't) make ends meet, impacts on residents' earning potential and proposed solutions for supporting people living at the margins of our community. Get in touch with her by emailing maina@knkx.org.
Mayowa also reports and produces special projects, including podcasts and series, for KNKX. She was part of the team that reported and produced The Walk Home. Mayowa started her public radio career at KUOW in Seattle. She's worked at NPR in Washington, D.C., producing and reporting stories across the network including for Code Switch and Weekend Edition.
Mayowa spent two years at Alaska Public Media, covering education and producing a nightly news magazine before moving back to her hometown of Tacoma. Mayowa enjoys live music, taking road trips, and watching fridge organization videos on TikTok.
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While the jury deliberates, listen to the different stories the eyewitnesses and the officers tell about what happened the night Manny Ellis died.
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In honor of our KNKX Connects to Tacoma series, we asked you — our listeners — to tell us what Tacoma sounds like. And you delivered!
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Tacoma officers trial: Prosecution rests, attempt to dismiss charges fails and the community ralliesProsecutors rested their case on Wednesday against the Tacoma police officers charged with killing Manny Ellis. A motion to dismiss the charges was denied and a rally outside the courthouse called for more access to the hearings.
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The confrontation between the carrier, Sedrick Altheimer, and Sheriff Ed Troyer led to multiple investigations, criminal charges, and a $5 million lawsuit.
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Help KNKX create a crowd-sourced collage of sounds. Grab your phone and record 30 seconds of a place or sound that is truly Tacoma. Send us your audio clip by Nov. 8
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The trial of the three officers charged in the 2020 death of Manuel "Manny" Ellis is entering its third week of testimony. KNKX reporters Mayowa Aina and Jared Brown talk about the forensic evidence and key witness testimony that's been presented so far.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Mayowa Aina, host of the KNKX podcast The Walk Home, about the police killing of an unarmed Black man, Manuel Ellis. The police officers are now on trial.
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Tacoma police officers Matthew Collins, Christopher Burbank and Timothy Rankine face felony charges in Manuel Ellis' death. Their trial began Monday.
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On Monday, jury selection begins in the long-anticipated trial in the killing of Manny Ellis, more than three and a half years after his death while in police custody. KNKX's Jared Brown will be covering the trial and provides a preview of what's ahead.
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The trial of the three Tacoma police officers charged with killing Manny Ellis is about to begin.