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.
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Reporter Sylvia Maria Gross remembers Brazilian musician Dona Edith who died last week at the age of 94. She became famous for tapping and scraping samba rhythms on a dinner plate.