Jenny Hamel is a news reporter and producer for KCRW and a former producer for KCRW's To the Point.
Before coming to KCRW, Hamel worked as a reporter and anchor for San Diego's KSWB Fox 5 and XETV Channel 6, where she won a 2010 Emmy Award for a story based on her travels to Uganda with a humanitarian organization. She's worked as a freelance video and documentary producer.
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