Zach Perez
Community Engagement Producer at KCUR-FM (Kansas City, MO)
He/Him | 🏳️🌈🇲🇽 | @kcur Community Engagement Producer | Past work w/ @KCURUpToDate & @Wildcat919FM | @kstatemediacomm Alum | Email: [email protected]
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1 month ago |
kcur.org | Zach Perez
If you drive through Kansas City’s Ivanhoe neighborhood today, you’ll see signs of a place that’s fighting to change. On one block, you may see overgrown vacant lots and dilapidated or abandoned buildings. On the next, you’ll see a vibrant community garden, a sprawling urban farm and newly renovated houses. For long-time residents like Alan Young, the area has come a long way from what it once was. “The police would speed 90 miles an hour down 39th Street.
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1 month ago |
hppr.org | Zach Perez
Read this story in English. El sábado, cientos de personas se reunieron en el Parque Bethany, en Kansas City, Kansas, para la celebración anual del Cinco de Mayo organizada por la CABA (Asociación para el Mejoramiento de la Avenida Central). Durante los últimos años, este evento ha sido una oportunidad para que los residentes mexicanos del área metropolitana de Kansas City celebren su cultura y la compartan con personas fuera de sus comunidades.
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1 month ago |
kcur.org | Zach Perez
Hundreds of people gathered Saturday at Bethany Park in Kansas City, Kansas, for the Central Avenue Betterment Assocation’s annual Cinco De Mayo celebration. For the past several years, the event has been a chance for Mexican residents of the Kansas City metro to celebrate their culture and share it with others outside their communities.
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Mar 20, 2025 |
hppr.org | Zach Perez
Natalie Zarate, a 28-year-old Overland Park, Kansas, resident, usually spends the one day she has off work each week playing with her 2-year-old son. Unlike his mother, the boy was born in the United States, automatically making him an American citizen. It’s a status she gained only a few months before his birth.
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Mar 20, 2025 |
kmuw.org | Zach Perez
Natalie Zarate, a 28-year-old Overland Park, Kansas, resident, usually spends the one day she has off work each week playing with her 2-year-old son. Unlike his mother, the boy was born in the United States, automatically making him an American citizen. It’s a status she gained only a few months before his birth.
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