Ruby de Luna
ReporterYear started with KUOW: 1994
Ruby de Luna is a features reporter at KUOW. She had originally planned to go into TV, but ditched the idea after discovering public radio. Ruby has reported on immigrant communities. She currently covers health care issues.
Ruby is a transplant from Taipei, Taiwan. She holds a BA in communication from Seattle Pacific University.
In the age of computer/digital audio editing, Ruby is proud to be one of the few old–schoolers who can still edit tape with a razor blade. In her free time she practices her knife skills on new recipes.
To see more of Ruby's KUOW portfolio, visit our current site.
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University of Washington faculty and students are protesting administrators' decision to cut 25 teaching assistant positions in the College of Arts and…
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June is the month for college graduation, but for many homeless youth, college is beyond their grasp. The paperwork for college applications can be… -
Dawna Hankins had a partial hysterectomy in 2008.Before surgery her doctor offered to put in a surgical mesh to help with minor incontinence. She… -
It’s been two months since a gas explosion shook up Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. Most businesses have reopened.At Rosewood Guitar on 85th, owner Bill… -
Homeless youth with substance abuse problems will have a place in King County to get help beginning this month.In coming weeks, 24 young adults who… -
King County Metro plans to increase transit service in the next five years, and it plans to do so without adding more greenhouse gas emissions.Already, 70… -
Exeter House in downtown Seattle was built as an apartment hotel for elegant living in the 1920s. It was part of a construction boom downtown at the… -
It’s been more than a month since a task force was formed to address King County’s heroin epidemic.One solution that’s under discussion is creating a safe… -
Heroin deaths have reached a record number in King County. More than 150 people died of overdoses in 2014.One woman could’ve been part of that statistic.… -
School kids in Washington state are tested for distance vision, to make sure they can see the chalk board at 20 feet. Now a new law requires students to…
