From Classroom to Newsroom: Broadcast Journalist LaMonica Peters '94

LaMonica Peters '94 is a News Reporter for KTVU Fox 2, covering Silicon Valley and South Bay. Her work has been seen on CNN, ABC News Live, CBS News, Spectrum News Network and Fox Live Now.

She was selected as a Knight Digital Media Center Fellow by the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 2011. In 2013, she was given the Mississippi Associated Press Award of Excellence for a 3-part series on breast cancer that described how the disease had affected her own family. 

Peters was also chosen to be an inaugural class member for Ida B. Wells Society’s Investigative Reporter training. The organization was co-founded by Nicole Hannah-Jones, Investigative Reporter, and author of the 1619 Project. In 2017, she was nominated by the New York State Associated Press for Public Service Reporting. 

Peters is an Asst. Journalism Professor, most recently at De Anza College and Palomar College. She’s also taught at Mississippi State University and Mississippi Valley State University.

She’s a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the Ida B. Wells Society. LaMonica also served as President of the UCLA Black Alumni Association from 2010 to 2012.  

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