Sehvilla Mann
Sehvilla Mann joined WMUK’s news team in 2014 as a reporter on the local government and education beats. She covered those topics and more in eight years of reporting for the Station, before becoming news director in 2022.
Sehvilla helped to launch WMUK’s award-winning listener-question series, “Why’s That?” in 2015. A native of Urbana, Illinois, in her pre-Michigan years Sehvilla studied French at Earlham College and journalism at Indiana University.
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Former first lady Michelle Obama headlined the rally with the vice president. "Kamala Harris is a grownup. And Lord knows, we need a grownup in the White House," she told the cheering crowd Saturday.
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A man claiming to be that canvasser later said he was fired from the libertarian-conservative Super PAC Americans for Prosperity Action. -
Kalamazoo County Sheriff Rick Fuller said "everything indicates" one tornado was on the ground in the county Tuesday. Radar indicated a second one that may not have touched down. -
Michigan lawmakers plan to re-introduce bills to give the state more power to respond to environmental crises. -
The union for full-time faculty at Western Michigan University may hold a no-confidence vote in the school’s leadership. -
The City of Portage is poised to increase the energy efficiency of its buildings. -
The Kalamazoo Valley Museum is hosting a conference on Wednesday through Saturday, on planetariums. -
Students at Kalamazoo Central High School demonstrated by Drake Road today to support a teacher who’s on the third day of a weeklong hunger strike.
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A Kalamazoo teacher began a hunger strike on Monday to protest likely cuts to President Joe Biden’s climate agenda. -
The part-time instructors’ union at Western Michigan University says it called off a rally on campus Thursday, Aug 26, after reaching an agreement on its contract.The Professional Instructors Organization says Western asked the union to cancel the protest, which would have coincided with students moving in. In exchange the university agreed to start giving one-time payments of $50 to longtime instructors.
