Sylvia Maria Gross is an editor at The World. She is an award-winning editor, reporter and host. As a reporter, she’s covered education, race, culture, immigration and the arts. Several radio documentaries she’s edited have won national Edward R. Murrow Awards. At station KCUR in Kansas City, Missouri, she founded a weekly newsmagazine, KC Currents, a daily talk show, Central Standard, and several podcasts including A People's History of Kansas City. Sylvia grew up between Brooklyn, New York; Bahia, Brazil; and the suburbs of Washington, DC. She taught middle school math in New York City before discovering the magic of audio journalism.