Ruby de Luna
Reporter
About
Ruby de Luna is a reporter with a focus on food and how it intersects with health, communities, and culture. She has also reported on health care and immigrant communities.
Ruby is a transplant from Taipei, Taiwan. She holds a B.A. in communication from Seattle Pacific University. She is proud to be one of the few old-schoolers who can edit tape with a razor blade.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, Conversational Mandarin, Tagalog
Pronouns: she/her
Professional Affiliations: Member, AAJA
Stories
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Funeral Dinners Help Darrington Cope With Losses
The first wave of memorial services honoring the victims who perished in the Oso landslide took place this weekend. In Darrington, residents gathered...
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The Painstaking Process Of Caring For Oso Victims
For many families of victims of the deadly Oso landslide, getting information about the fate of their loved ones has been agonizingly slow. That's...
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A Hard Day Ahead For Search Operations In The Mudslide
With 100 percent chance of rain in the forecast for Friday, Snohomish County Fire District 21 Chief Travis Hots held a brief conference in the morning...
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Former TB Patient On Time In Local Sanatorium: 'I Look Back On It Very Sweetly'
Some people may think tuberculosis has been wiped out, but the disease still infects one third of the world’s population.Closer to home, tuberculosis is...
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Washington Reports An 'Unprecedented' Drop In Medicaid ER Visits
A year after hospitals began discouraging Medicaid patients from making unnecessary emergency room visits, the results are promising. A new state report...
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Health Exchange Open Enrollment Deadline Looms
If you don’t have health coverage yet, you still have two weeks to sign up. But state officials are urging people not to wait until the last minute....
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Affordable Care Act Opens Door To More Inmate Enrollment
Health care enrollments so far have been focused on people without insurance. But there’s another population officials are trying to get covered –...
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Holy Mammoth! Tusk Arrives At The Burke Museum
Scientists are hoping to learn more about a fossilized mammoth tusk that was uncovered two weeks ago at a construction site in Seattle’s South Lake...
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Destigmatizing Dementia: 'We're Still Here'
Living with dementia can be isolating for both patients and their families. As social interactions get awkward, people begin to withdraw. Not only do...
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How Do You Get A Young Adult To Buy Health Insurance?
Washington Healthplanfinder has rolled out a new series of snappy ads aimed at getting young adults to sign up for health care. To date, the enrollment...