Renata Sago
ReporterRenata Sago is WMFE's general assignment reporter and occasional Morning Edition anchor. She covers everything from major political campaigns and unemployment to civil rights legislation and the performing arts for WMFE and NPR.
Renata came to WMFE from WVIK in Rock Island, Illinois, where she was the Amy Helpenstell Foundation Fellow. She hosted Morning Edition and All Things Considered, produced features, and reported on everything from same-sex marriage legislation to unemployment in the Quad Cities. She also created and produced Why, QC, WVIK's listener-driven weekly news segment.
The Chicago native began her career in public radio as an intern for Worldview, Chicago Public Radio’s daily global affairs program. She’s helped produce other programs for WBEZ and its sister station, Vocalo, including The Barber Shop Show and Afternoon Shift.
Renata received her Bachelors in International Relations from Brown University and a Master's in Political Science at Université des Antilles et de la Guyane in Guadeloupe.
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Thousands of petitions are circulating across the state in an unprecedented grass-roots campaign to restore voting rights to almost 1.7 million people. -
A "get tough" approach has been the trend. But now lawmakers, juvenile justice advocates and community groups are rethinking that approach for kids and young adults who commit crimes. -
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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Far down the ballot, district attorney races could reshape the criminal justice system for millions of Americans by electing a more diverse slate of prosecutors. -
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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Lisa Vogl and her partners launched Verona online to fill a fashion void. Now, it's a boutique stocked with long-sleeved caftans, full-length slit-less skirts, and more than 300 varieties of hijabs. -
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.
