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Byrhonda Lyons
Video Journalist
Byrhonda Lyons is an award-winning video journalist for CALmatters. She creates compelling video news stories that engage and educate viewers about policy and politics in California. Her work has appeared on the PBS NewsHour, KPBS, KVIE-PBS, and local television stations throughout California. She won an EPPY and an award from the California News Publishers Association (CNPA) for CalMatters' 2018 Elections Guide. She also won a first-place CNPA award for producing a climate change explainer. Prior to joining CALmatters, she was a freelance video producer and worked as a digital media specialist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service. She was also an editor for the San Quentin News, an inmate-run newspaper in California. Byrhonda is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. When she’s not working, you can catch her searching archives for trailblazing black women who have been left out of history books.
The latest by Byrhonda Lyons
VIDEO: Tony Thurmond, Marshall Tuck on California’s public school system
Video: Newsom and Cox reveal how they would run California differently than Gov. Brown
Proposition 1: What to know about a $4 billion bond for housing, in under a minute
Proposition 6: What to know about the gas tax repeal, in under a minute
Proposition 12: What to know about the animal cage measure, in under a minute
Proposition 10: What to know about the rent control measure, in under a minute
CALmatters Explains: California’s War on Climate Change
WATCH: Governor candidates on how they would tackle California wildfires
Five counties tried new voting method to turbo-charge turnout. Did it work?
Watch us break down California’s new budget in under 2 minutes
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California legislators should take a breath on housing ‘crisis.’ Looking at you, Scott Wiener
You’ve just been named California’s homelessness czar — what’s your first move?
Voters face hundreds of local tax measures
How to win California: A guide to the nation’s largest presidential primary
