Garvin Thomas is a reporter, photographer, editor, and fill-in anchor for NBC Bay Area News. He produces stories under the station's Bay Area Proud banner. They are positive, inspirational stories about the people, groups, and companies making the Bay Area, and the world, a better place to live.
Garvin has more than twenty-five years experience working in television news, having spent time working in Boston, Berlin, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles before coming to the Bay Area in 2004.
Garvin started out at NBC Bay Area as a general assignment reporter, but his responsibilities and skills have grown over the years. In addition to writing and reporting, he also shoots and edits all his own stories. He also fills in as an anchor for NBC Bay Area’s morning, evening, and weekend newscasts.
Garvin has received national awards for his reporting and photography. Garvin won the 2013 Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for the best feature reporting in the country's 50 largest television markets. In 2014 Garvin won the Gabriel Award, given out by the Catholic Academy of Communication Professionals for feature reporting in the top 25 markets. Garvin has also won more than a dozen regional awards for his reporting and photography, including seven Emmy Awards.
Garvin, his wife Karen and their three children live in the South Bay.
If there is someone or some group you think would make for a great Bay Area Proud story, you can email Garvin at garvin.thomas@nbcuni.com, or connect with him on social media: on Twitter @GarvinThomas, on Instagram @GarvinThomasNBC and on Facebook.
The Latest
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Actress helps East Bay teen with chronic illness achieve acting dream
Steph Langnas volunteered to give Zoé Berman eight weeks of acting lessons. Three years later, they are still going strong, and Zoé’s dream of starring in her own show became a reality. Garvin Thomas reports.
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Aiming to lift spirits of passers-by, homeless San Jose artist creates elaborate, wearable suits of armor
Using material he scavenged from dump sites, Jared Clark has crafted life-size suits of armor based on characters from the game Warhammer 40,000.
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SF college students design, construct dozens of beds for homeless students and families
Setting up and taking down the emergency family shelter inside a working San Francisco school is a logistical challenge. A group of students from the Academy of Art University is making the work easier for the staff and the shelter more comfortable for the residents.
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South Bay high school robotics team bringing sport to next generation
The Wilcox High School Robotics team created robotic kits and is taking them into elementary schools to get younger students excited about the activity.
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East Bay special education teacher's training as a hairstylist comes in handy before student's big night
Claire Hall says early in life she dreamed of being a hairstylist to the stars. One day in February, that is exactly what Hall got to be.
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After over 2 years walking, hiker becomes first solo woman to finish 6,800-mile American Discovery Trail
Briana DeSanctis set off from Cape Henlopen, Deleware, on Jan. 1, 2022. More than two years later, she completed the American Discovery Trail at Limantour Beach in Marin County.
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South San Francisco man on a mission of kindness is rewarding those who follow
Bryan Tsiliacos is rewarding acts of kindness with cash as part of his “Decade Of Kindness.”
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‘There's a sisterhood': Female VTA employees form group to support women in transit
A longtime female VTA employee is leading the agency’s effort to make a career in transit more appealing and inclusive to women.
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Combination of sisterly love and remarkable luck gives East Bay woman chance at life
When Marisol Inglis needed a kidney, her sister, Zoe, stepped up to offer one of hers. The chances of them being a match, however, were slim. The odds ended up working in their favor. Garvin Thomas reports.
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Artistic swimmer Bill May has sights set on Paris
For decades, he’s been dreaming about going to the Olympics. Now because of a rule change, that dream is looking more like a reality for artistic swimmer Bill May.
