Nastia Voynovskaya

Editor and reporter

Nastia Voynovskaya is a reporter and editor at KQED Arts & Culture. She's been covering the arts in the Bay Area for over a decade, with a focus on music, queer culture, labor issues and grassroots organizing. She co-created KQED's Bay Area hip-hop history project, That's My Word, and has won two Society of Professional Journalists awards and two San Francisco Press Club awards for her reporting. She holds a BA in comparative literature from UC Berkeley.

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