Pari Cruz Biography
Pari Cruz is an American Journalist who is a bilingual journalist who joined CBS 58 and Telemundo Wisconsin in July of 2018. Cruz is excited to be in Milwaukee and a part of the CBS 58 team. She started her career at WTVO/WQRF in Rockford where she spent a little over two years reporting and anchoring for Northwestern Illinois, and Southeastern Wisconsin.
Pari Cruz Age
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Pari Cruz Education
Pari is originally from Chicago, IL. She graduated from DePaul University with a double-major in Journalism and Romance Languages. Pari is a polyglot who speaks, reads, and writes 5 languages fluently. She then went on to get her Master’s in Broadcast Journalism in one year, also at DePaul.
Pari Cruz TeleChicago Corp
Cruz was a Reporter for TeleChicago creating news packages of national and international importance. Assignments include covering news, restaurant openings, events, and concerts of importance to a network through live shots and pre-recorded material for the website.
Pari Cruz CBS News
As a Specials and Investigative intern, she assisted the executive producer and fellow producers with special and investigative news pieces for Chicago and the surrounding suburban areas. She also worked closely with producers to build stories, logged tapes, transcribed interviews, and helped set up interviews for reporters and producers.
Cruz pitched ideas for pieces. Helped coordinate and arrange location shoots through research. I went out on shoots assisting reporters by finding people to interview and backstory.
She also had the opportunity to go out with crews alone and interview people for reporters to use in their packages.
Pari Cruz Articles
Menomonee Falls man looking for kidney donation gets gift of life from neighbor in Franklin
MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. (CBS 58) — CBS 58 first introduced you to Tom Zachek back in February, when he was looking for a kidney. On Wednesday, October 2 the Menomonee Falls man got to meet the person who saved his life.
Carl Williams was inspired by a friend who had had a kidney transplant who recently passed away, and it was something he had always wanted to do. So when he found himself at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center, he walked right up to the kidney clinic to offer up one of his own.
After searching for a kidney donation for three years, Tom Zachek finally found a donor.
“It was a surprise. Was a complete surprise,” said Zachek. “It took a while to process at first. It’s phenomenal.”
Zachek said waiting can be very discouraging. He had previously even made t-shirts and had taken to social media as a Hail Mary where his picture was shared thousands of times.
“I thought that in my future was dialysis a year or two down the road,” said Zachek. “My weaker moments, I didn’t think I’d live to see 80 years old.” Zachek’s donor never saw that t-shirt.
Instead, by a stroke of luck, Zachek found his match when Carl Williams walked into Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center. “I was at the hospital here with my niece who was in for about 20 days,” said Williams. “And one day I just walked up to the kidney clinic and said, ‘I’d like to donate a kidney.’”
Williams said he didn’t care who got it as long as he could help save someone. The two men are similar in age; Tom is 71 and Carl is 70. Both men are retired teachers and live just miles away from each other — Tom in Menomonee Falls, and Carl in Franklin.
Between cracking jokes, and finishing each other’s sentences, it seemed as if they’d already known each other from before. “It’s a very good kidney, and it’s working for me beautifully,” said Zachek. “Put’s out like a fire hydrant.”
“Well, it’s not that much younger than you,” Williams replied. Jokes aside, they both reiterated the importance and ease of organ donation.
“I would really like to encourage anyone who has the chance to think about donating a kidney. I was telling Tom earlier that, having gone through it, and the discomfort and pain after the surgery I would do it again in a heartbeat,” said Williams.
As they both laugh through the pain of their healing sutures, they know that in sharing the gift of life, they’ve also gained a friend to share that journey with.
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