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About Lois

 

           

 

Lois is an award winning broadcast journalist who’s been reporting and anchoring on radio and television for the past 30 years.  People are her passion, as evidenced in her special reports from Bosnia, Serbia, Uganda to the streets of San Francisco, New York and Denver.  Lois has covered presidential elections, the high tech boom and bust in the Silicon Valley, local and national disasters and focused on stories of people who’ve overcome great odds.

Lois currently co-hosts “The Ride Home” on KOA Radio in Denver, Colorado, where she covers the hot topics of the day, from sports, to breaking news, to snuggies!

From 1997 to 2000, Lois worked as a reporter and anchor at ABC-7 TV in San Francisco.  She covered breaking news, developing stories and producing and reporting on in-depth pieces.  From the Yosemite murders of a mother and two young girls, the crash of an Alaska Airlines flight, to the El Nino floods, Lois covered the stories locally and nationally.  In 1998, she traveled on assignment to Uganda to produce and report on an exclusive 4-part series on how the San Francisco Bay Area responded to the AIDS crisis.

         Lois crossed over to television after reporting for and anchoring morning drive at KCBS Radio in San Francisco from 1986 to 1997.  At KCBS, Lois won awards from the Associated Press, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Radio and Television News Directors Association, the National Women’s Political Caucus, the Golden Gate Chapter of American Women in Radio and Television and the Peninsula Press Club for breaking news, best anchor, best investigative reporter, contributions to broadcast and electronic media and several enterprising awards for her two week series of live reports from Bosnia.  She also reported live for 36 hours during and after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, for which she earned a Peabody Award.

Lois has written a book as a result of her time spent in Bosnia. She filmed, narrated and produced the documentary, “Impressions of Armenia” and directed, narrated and edited a 14 minute video on the work of “Hope Unlimited” in Brazil, which houses and educates street children.

In 1981, Lois graduated from Biola University in La Mirada, CA with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications.