Tamara Vaifanua

Salt Lake City

Anchor and Reporter at KSL.com

@ksl5tv Anchor/Reporter. Utah native. Proud Samoan. @suutbirds alum @aaja #OPINIONS ARE MINE.

Articles

Looking Out for the Good: Goldman Sachs celebrates anniversary by planting trees

1 week ago | ksltv.com | Tamara Vaifanua

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Looking Out for the Good: Birthday cake to Utah food bank

1 week ago | ksltv.com | Tamara Vaifanua

GOOD NEWS Apr 11, 2025, 8:58 AM SALT LAKE CITY — One Cottonwood Heights woman is taking a delivery to the food bank full of birthday cake kits. Kathie Hawkins tells us she and her husband held a drive to put together the kits. Their goal was to make 100 but ended up making 200! She’s dropping them off Friday morning and hopes to bring more attention to our food banks.
Looking Out for the Good: Teacher honored for integrating AI in classroom

2 weeks ago | ksltv.com | Tamara Vaifanua

GOOD NEWS Apr 10, 2025, 11:34 AM SALT LAKE CITY — A teacher in the Alpine School District got a big surprise after he was awarded a $10,000 Innovation Award. The Texas Instruments Foundation is highlighting Mr. James Bentley for integrating artificial intelligence in his classes to help keep students engaged in learning. He said it helps students who struggle with vocabulary or concepts. Students say they like Mr. Bentley’s interactive teaching style.
Mountain Ridge High School percussion group headed to world championship

2 weeks ago | ksltv.com | Tamara Vaifanua

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Looking Out for the Good: International program brings Mexican culture to Utah schools

2 weeks ago | ksltv.com | Tamara Vaifanua

GOOD NEWS Apr 7, 2025, 11:05 AM SALT LAKE CITY — One international program is bringing teachers in from Mexico to bring Mexican culture to Utah kids. The visiting teachers program brought Lucia de la Cruz Rodriguez into Midvale Elementary to teach Spanish in a dual-language program there. Parents and educators say the program helps not only with language instruction but also with cultural enrichment, especially for Mexican and Mexican-American students in Utah.
Stan Walker performs at the University of Utah

2 weeks ago | ksltv.com | Tamara Vaifanua

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Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Equal Pay Day

2 weeks ago | ksltv.com | Tamara Vaifanua

SALT LAKE CITY — This week marks Asian American and Pacific Islander . Women in these groups face some of the largest wage gaps in the country. Vaianna “Vee” Fiso works at Nightingale College, an online nursing school in Salt Lake City, but at one time she juggled two other jobs. “I was working at Buffalo Wild Wings, Nightingale and a snow cone shack,” Fiso said. The first-generation Samoan-American takes care of her grandmother, mother and younger siblings.
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Equal Pay Day

2 weeks ago | asianamericans.einnews.com | Tamara Vaifanua

SALT LAKE CITY — This week marks Asian American and Pacific Islander . Women in these groups face some of the largest wage gaps in the country. Vaianna “Vee” Fiso works at Nightingale College, an online nursing school in Salt Lake City, but at one time she juggled two other jobs. “I was working at Buffalo Wild Wings, Nightingale and a snow cone shack,” Fiso said. The first-generation Samoan-American takes care of her grandmother, mother and younger siblings.
Looking Out for the Good: Students honor retiring principal with musical

2 weeks ago | ksltv.com | Tamara Vaifanua

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Orem Giving Machines raise $150,000

3 weeks ago | ksltv.com | Tamara Vaifanua

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