About IWMF: Board of Directors

Ysabel Duron is an award-winning journalist with more than three decades of experience in television broadcasting. She is the anchor of KRON4-TV Weekend Morning News in San Francisco, where she began as a general assignment reporter in 1990.

Duron came to the station from WMAQ-TV, the NBC-owned and operated station in Chicago, where she won a team Emmy for her work on a breaking news story. Duron won her first Emmy reporting on the Patty Hearst kidnapping for KTVU in Oakland, Calif. in 1974.

Since joining KRON, Duron has won acclaim for two series. One was about her reunion with a son she gave up for adoption. The other was a three-part series in 1998 on her own winning battle with cancer, which gained her national recognition from American Women in Radio and Television and an Excellence in Journalism award from the Society of Professional Journalists.

In 2006, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists presented her with the President’s Award for her commitment to journalism and the Latino community. She is the founder and executive director of Latinas Contra Cancer, a Silicon Valley based nonprofit organization offering education and support services to Latinos around issues of cancer.

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