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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ReConnect is KNKX Public Radio’s daily news podcast. Listen every weekday to hear the latest stories coming from the KNKX newsroom, and a deep dive into one KNKX Original every week. Hosted by KNKX Reporters Freddy Monares and Mayowa Aina.
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Two borrowers give their initial reactions to the Supreme Court's ruling to strike down the Biden Administration's initial student loan debt relief plan. Nearly 700,000 Washingtonians were eligible for relief.
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Raising Girls provides free hygiene kits to school-aged children across the South Sound.
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New data says about one in three Washington households are not making enough money to make ends meet. The ALICE data is a guide for the City of Tacoma's guaranteed income experiment, which recently announced it's extending the GRIT pilot program to new families.
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Writer and romance novelist M.L. "Matt" Buchman shares why the Market is the perfect setting for a romance novel.
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The Pike Market Senior Center is an important link to the almost invisible resource network Pike Place Market provides for the people living in and around the community.
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Book-lovers are buzzing about Independent Bookstore Day on April 29. BLMF Literary Saloon owner J.B. Johnson says owning a bookstore isn't easy but it is the greatest job in the world.
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The new Center for Financial Wellness at the University of Washington Tacoma offers financial literacy programming for students and the community and teaches strategies for wealth generation.
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The Washington State Broadband Office is planning for around $900 million in federal funds to come into the state for internet infrastructure projects. But first they have to understand why 250,000 households are without high-speed internet.
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It’s the first time the waitlist will be open to households of all sizes since 2015. THA anticipates high demand, but said anybody who needs housing help should apply.