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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Cutest class of the semester: Teacher instructs students in raising guide dog puppies
Heather Duncan from Fairfax has been a prolific raiser of puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind.
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Day care teacher aids 4-year-old's quest to meet 1,000 dogs before he goes to kindergarten
Quinn Drake wants to meet 1,000 dogs by the time he goes to kindergarten. Garvin Thomas reports.
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Los Altos tennis-playing teens inspired to start clinic for neurodivergent individuals
Two Los Altos High School tennis players, who grew up playing at the Magical Bridge Playground in Palo Alto, were inspired to do their part to help kids with special needs. Garvin Thomas reports.
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Marin County teen, who died in skiing accident, inspires injured snowboarder on road to recovery
The Scotty Lapp Foundation’s ski pass giveaway found the perfect recipient.
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Seaside Animal Control officer proves dedication to job with 7-week pursuit of wayward rooster
A Seaside animal control officer spent seven weeks trying to capture a rogue rooster.
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After decades facilitating organ donations among others, East Bay man inspired to donate himself
For more than two decades, Luis Mayer has worked at Donor Network West, the designated organ procurement nonprofit organization serving Northern California and northern Nevada.
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16-year-old figure skater from Oakland has sights set on 2026 Winter Olympics
A 16-year-old girl from Oakland would love to join the list of Olympic-caliber figure skaters from the Bay Area.
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Relying on experience from Camp Fire, Bay Area group organizes to help LA fire victims
After helping a friend who had lost her home in the Eaton fire, Ginger Faith wanted to do more but wasn’t sure how. Eric Lofholm knew how because he had done it before.
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Nontoxic fire retardant, developed by Mountain View teens, protects dozens of homes in LA fires
The product, developed by Barrett Deng and Sebastien Burkhardo in a Silicon Valley garage, got its first real-world test in the Palisades and Eaton fires.
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The show goes on: Scotts Valley theater doesn't let tornado halt performance
Minutes before the curtain went up on Scotts Valley Performing Arts’ production of “A Year With Frog And Toad,” a tornado struck. With some ingenuity and teamwork, the show went on.
