Jonesboro Native, Claudio Raffo, is Miss Arkansas

By Johnathan Reaves

Published August 3, 2018 at 8:52 AM CDT

For the second year in a row, Miss Arkansas comes from Jonesboro. 22-year-old Claudia Raffo graduated from Arkansas State in the spring with a degree in chemistry. After graduation, she entered the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences where she is a student in the College of Pharmacy. She is the daughter of Tommy and Paula Raffo. Raffo was crowned Miss Arkansas by Maggie Benton, also of Jonesboro. Click on the Listen button to hear the interview

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Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.

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