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Contributor  »  Graciela Sevilla

Graciela Sevilla is managing editor of “Full Focus”, the local news/public affairs program produced and aired weeknights on KPBS-TV, the local PCS affiliate in San Diego.

A working journalist for almost 20 years, she started in newspapers, then transferred her skills to internet news and finally to television. Before joining KPBS in late 1999, she produced public affair programs for UCSD-TV.

Grace left the newspaper world during the dot-com boom to return to San Diego where she created a “virtual newsroom”, overseeing a staff of reporters and photographers covering the length of the U.S.-Mexico border for a news website.

During her time as a print journalist, she worked as a reporter on the metro staff of The Washington Post , as Mexico Correspondent for The Arizona Republic and as a staff writer at The San Diego Union where her last assignment was covering migrant worker issues in North County . A San Diego native, she graduated from University of California, San Diego with a degree in political science and she earned a master's degree in International Journalism from the University of Southern California.