Renata Sago
Renata joined the WVIK News team in March 2014, as the Amy Helpenstell Foundation Fellow. She anchors during Morning Edition and All Things Considered, produces features, and reports on everything from same-sex marriage legislation to unemployment in the Quad Cities.
Renata fell into public radio after spending two years in France and Guadeloupe. She got her start as an intern for Worldview, a global affairs program that airs on WBEZ, Chicago's NPR member station. There, she produced a variety of segments covering politics and culture. She later joined Vocalo as a producer for two weekly programs.
Renata is Chicago native and a graduate of Brown University and Universite des Antilles et de la Guyane.
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A former employee at an Orlando-area awning company opened fire at his old workplace Monday morning, killing five people before turning the gun on himself. The incident comes almost a year after 49 people were killed at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
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Elections 2016: After Pulse Shooting Advocates Press Florida Lawmakers For LGBT Workplace ProtectionBoxes and stacks of wedding RSVPs crowd Kelly Bardier and Jaci Pfeiffer’s dining room in Oviedo, just outside Orlando. The couple is getting ready to... -
The fastest growing group of voters in Florida is up for grabs. Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans have moved to the swing state in recent years, and both parties are aggressively courting them.
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There is a fairly cheap and easy way to clean up voting rolls. But, as Renata Sago of member station WMFE reports, Florida has refused to join, citing legal concerns about sharing voter data.
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Historically black colleges and universities have often been viewed as a refuge for African-American students. But at Bethune-Cookman University in Florida, 13 students have been shot this year alone.
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In 2000, the nation's biggest election meltdown took place in Florida due to paper butterfly ballots, ancient voting machines and poorly trained poll workers. Old machines are again a worry for some. -
In Florida, the fastest growing group of independent voters are newly-arrived Puerto Ricans. And although they're American citizens, they're encountering an entirely new political system.
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With fantasy sports scoring the lead in Florida’s gaming industry, experts are urging lawmakers to create policies that embrace new tech driven games. Scores of gaming experts are meeting in Orlando, 90.7’s Renata Sago was there and has this report. -
Islamophobia is at an all-time high in central Florida according to the area’s Muslim leaders. 90.7's Renata Sago reports, as police search for a man who vandalized a mosque over the weekend in Titusville, Muslim leaders are looking for ways to quell fears of how people view the community. -
Imams stood with uniformed police this afternoon at a conference in Kissimmee. The purpose: to talk about a rise in hate crimes against Muslims, and as 90.7’s Renata Sago reports, to plan ways to keep all Americans safe from domestic and foreign terrorists.
