Amanda Stupi
On Call Producer
On Call Producer
Amanda Stupi’s journalism career started in print, covering high school sports in the San Francisco Bay Area. After producing a story about Major League Baseball’s marketing to Asian Americans for KQED, Stupi knew radio and public media was where she wanted to work. She went on to produce talk shows at KALW and spent six months with NPR’s Talk of the Nation. Eventually Stupi would break ground as KQED’s first engagement producer, handling social media and audience interaction for Forum, the daily call-in show. After almost a decade focussing on audience engagement and digital news, Stupi got the itch to return to storytelling. She’s now an on-call producer and reporter for KQED, covering everything from monarch butterflies to early childhood education.
There were a handful of moments when I thought my reporting project on California’s child care shortage was going to fall apart. These lessons helped me avert disaster.
Why preparing a child for kindergarten is so important, and some of the tools available to help California families.
Kids across California are returning to school, but not all students are equally prepared. A study found that in Sonoma County, only 22% of children are ready for kindergarten when they start.
The majority of Californians live in places where the supply of licensed child care just does not meet the demand. And it could get worse.