Wambui Kamau
General Assignment ReporterWambui Kamau is a General Assignment Reporter for WYPR.
From a young age, Wambui enjoyed storytelling. Growing up, she admired journalists like Catherine Kasavuli, Christiane Amanpour and thought, "I can do that," and so she did.
Previously, Wambui reported and produced in the Midwest. In fact, she was part of the team that won an Edward R. Murrow award for Continuing Coverage of the Daunte Wright Trial in Minneapolis, MN.
Wambui looks forward to covering Baltimore's unique neighborhoods, city hall and everything in between.
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Black women have faced long wait times for styling. A salon in Bowie is changing the game with 24-hour service. -
Councilman Mark Conway, who's running against Kweisi Mfume for his Congressional seat, was the first to sign the No BGE Pledge. -
Lionel Messi attracted one of the largest crowds in Major League Soccer this season. -
The event commemorates the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march in Alabama, when civil rights activists protesting barriers to Black voting rights were attacked by state troopers as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge. -
Mayor Brandon Scott signed an anti-ICE executive order earlier this week. -
Bill Ferguson said the underground transmission plan raises “innumerable questions.” -
An ordinance meant to provide stronger protections for tenants and hold bad landlords accountable needs many amendments to become law. -
Plan includes transferring state owned property to control of a private developer, Wexford Science and Technology. -
New plan raises tax credit cap, increases relief for homeowners, and launches enrollment campaign for state tax credits. -
Two weeks after one of the region’s largest winter storms in recent memory, questions remain about how effectively Maryland’s price gouging protections served consumers during the emergency.
