Sondra Woodward

Join Sondra Woodward every weekday morning from 5-10am for NPR’s Morning Edition and World News from the BBC. She’ll keep you informed of local and statewide news, sports, public events, weather and traffic throughout the morning.

  About Sondra Woodward      

Although born in Florida, Sondra has spent most of her life in Hampton Roads, growing up in Chesapeake and attending Norfolk Academy.

Sondra’s first on-air gig was as morning show host for WFOS, 90.3, back in the late 1980s when the frequency was owned by the Chesapeake Public School system. Locally, she has also worked as a traffic reporter with Metro Traffic, reporter and talk-show host at WNIS, news director at WJQI and news and promotions director at WNVZ. She then moved up to Baltimore and worked for Metro Traffic, WMAR-TV and for the then-NPR affiliate WJHU. She decided what was lacking from her life was a little college work, so she applied to William and Mary, got accepted, and moved to Williamsburg, where she got a degree in Linguistics and stayed much, much longer in the historic town than she ever expected to! Intending only to work for Colonial Williamsburg as a means of supporting herself through college, she instead made a 10 year career out of her relationship with CW.

Sondra never lost the itch to be on the air, however, and she’s thrilled to be back on Hampton Roads’ airwaves at WHRV.

Sondra lives in Norfolk with a brilliant science writer, her faithful canine companion and a precocious cockatoo. Her interests include writing, photography, film, animal welfare, cactus conservation, hiking Death Valley, and finding good vegetarian fare.

Sondra can be reached at sondra.woodward@whrv.org