Maricela De La Cruz joined the KCRA 3 News team in March 2021. Maricela knows Sacramento well; she joins the team with prior experience reporting and anchoring in Spanish. She’s been covering issues affecting Hispanic and Latino communities throughout the course of her career, and has interviewed California leaders that include Xavier Becerra, Alex Padilla, and Gov. Gavin Newsom to get accurate information to Spanish speakers across the state. Before moving to the Golden State in 2018, Maricela worked in South Texas as a bilingual news anchor and reporter, and focused on investigative reporting, politics and immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border.