Dani Matias
Morning Edition Producer/HostDani Matias is a former producer and fill-in host for KUT's Morning Edition show. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in journalism. Previously, she's interned with the Daily Dot, KERA, the Texas Standard, WAMU and NPR.
Dani is also an alumnus of the Chips Quinn Scholars Program for Diversity in Journalism and NPR's Next Generation Radio Project.
Dani is originally from Fort Worth, Texas. She speaks Spanish and her family is from Mexico City.
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Austin has a budget of $4.2 billion for fiscal year 2021-2022, which begins Oct. 1. Public feedback on what the city's spending priorities should be is being accepted through Monday. -
Registration, which usually occurs in February, was pushed back to assess the effects of the pandemic locally. Officials said this gave the department more time to plan summer programming with health and safety precautions in mind. -
Bertha Sadler Means was known as a community leader, political activist, businesswoman and educator. -
Local officials are urging people to continue wearing face masks after Gov. Greg Abbott announced he's lifting the statewide mandate. -
Local officials are urging people to continue wearing face masks after Gov. Greg Abbott announced he's lifting the statewide mandate.
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The Austin Police Department's homicide unit has taken over the investigation of a six-hour-long hostage situation, after two people were found dead inside a Central Austin doctor's office. -
The VA will now begin vaccinating enrolled veterans 75 years or older. Some will receive their first doses Saturday at a Central Texas COVID-19 vaccine clinic. -
As vaccines trickle out in Central Texas, Black elected officials are pointing out the disparity in access between East and West Austin. They recommend public spaces like schools and fire stations be used as pop-up vaccination clinics. -
The university is accepting name suggestions for two dorms in San Marcos and two streets on the Round Rock campus. -
As Thanksgiving approaches amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many families are worried about being able to afford food. Some local organizations are distributing free meals through Thanksgiving Day.
