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Lissette Campos

Lissette Campos

Lissette Campos is a freelance writer and communications strategist living in Tampa. Lissette spent more than 11 years as the host of Positively Tampa Bay for WFTS TV ABC Action News where she showcased thousands of local community programs and service projects. She loves history and café con leche -- which frequently land her in Ybor City. She also serves as a board member of the Ybor City Museum Society, which oversees the Tampa Baseball Museum, The Spring of Tampa Bay Domestic Violence Center, and the WEDU Community Advisory Board.
 

Lissette Campos's Latest Articles

The Chinsegut Hill Historic Site in Hernando County
Chinsegut Hill: An extraordinary view of history

The Chinsegut Hill Historic Site in Hernando County has witnessed Florida and national history from prehistoric people through the Civil War and Emancipation to the women's suffrage movement and the Great Depression. 

Volunteers with South Tampa Fellowship prepare meals for Afghan refugees who have settled in Tampa Bay.
Local charities need help serving Afghan refugees

Local charities are working hard to help Afghan refugees resettle in the Tampa Bay area, but they need more volunteers.

The chairs at the Havana Airport in the exhibit are a reminder of the journey for exiles from Cuba to Florida.
A reporter’s notebook: Cuban pathways

Seeing the Pathways to Cuba exhibit gets personal for longtime Tampa Bay Area journalist Lissette Campos.

A glove worn and signed by baseball great signed Lou Piniella.
135 years of baseball history packed into Ybor City casita

The most photographed area of the Tampa Baseball Museum is a collection of 89 autographed baseballs representing every Hillsborough County native to make it onto a Major League Baseball team.

The Tampa Bay Rays help staff the Player’s Alliance Pull Up Neighbor event at Springhill Community Center in Tampa, FL on January 3, 2021.
For Good: How Tampa Bay Rays give back off the field

The Tampa Bay Rays organization has a long history of philanthropy, donating goods and services worth more than $13.6 Million to local nonprofits and people in need since 2008, according to the Tampa Bay Rays Baseball Foundation.

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