Briceyda Landaverde is a reporter for NBC Connecticut. She can be seen during the early evening weekly newscast.
Briceyda has a passion for storytelling and connecting with the community. She covers general assignments and some of the biggest stories in Connecticut.
Briceyda, also known as Bri, joined the team in June of 2022 as a bilingual reporter. Previously, she was a weekend morning anchor and reporter in Springfield, Massachusetts, where she helped launch an online news update in Spanish. The New York native started her career on Long Island as a photojournalist.
In 2016, Briceyda graduated from Stony Brook University. As a student journalist she traveled to Cuba, during the brief period when the travel ban was lifted, and reported on Wi-Fi accessibility on the island.
During her free time, Briceyda enjoys finding new adventures in Connecticut. When the weather permits, you can find her outside taking a walk or hike. She also likes to travel across the Long Island Sound to visit her parents, sisters and friends.
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Local Impact Grant recipient gives out tote bags with feminine hygiene products
This week at The Bushnell, about 200 volunteers lined up to fill hundreds of tote bags with feminine hygiene products. “It is always wonderful to feel the support of the community behind our mission and vision,” Dignity Grows President Jennifer Tolman said. Dignity Grows’ mission is to end period poverty. The national nonprofit was founded in Hartford five years ago…
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New Haven plans neighborhood greenway for section of Orange Street
“I love this place, I love this street,” Nica’s Market owner Joseph Sabino said. Sabino has owned Nica’s Market on Orange Street in New Haven for more than three decades. “It’s very important to keep business, it’s not only business now, it is a friendship, and it’s people I have seen for 36 years,” Sabino said. Sabino is looking...
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Proposed bill would require cosmetology schools to teach textured hair styling
Carmen Veal Conway specializes in styling curly hair. “The spectrum of curls range from wavy, to loose curls to tight curls,” Brown Skin Women owner Carmen Veal Conway said. Conway opened up the brick-and-mortar in 2017 in Hartford, after seeing her online blog generate a lot of interest. “This is a very niche category I work in, because you are…
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New Britain High School cadets clean up National Iwo Jima Memorial
On Friday morning, students with the New Britain High School Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps gathered together to clean up the National Iwo Jima Memorial. New Britain High School cadets started their morning with brooms and rakes to clean up the National Iwo Jima Memorial ahead of spring events. “It means a lot to me because I know I will…
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Hartford Public Schools to cut nearly 400 positions, citing funding issues
“We knew it, we predicted it, they are temporary positions but they are people,” Hartford Public Schools Superintendent Leslie Torres-Rodriguez said. Hartford Public Schools is in the process of notifying hundreds of staff members their positions will not be available next school year due to a combination of funding reasons. “There has been a modest increase at the state level,…
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Family of Hartford fallen Det. Bobby Garten discusses memorial fund, event in his honor
“Bobby is my little brother, the one I wrestled with in the basement,” William Garten said. William Garten misses his brother Hartford Detective Robert ‘Bobby’ Garten every day. “I just miss him so much at these family events because we were always there and he was always my partner at these family events,” Garten said. “I just don’t have...
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Man pleads guilty to attacking state representative in Hartford
Andrey Desmond entered three guilty pleas on Tuesday afternoon in connection to an attack on State Rep. Maryam Khan as she was leaving a prayer service at the XL Center in Hartford in June 2023. “At this point, Representative Khan needs some time to just process this,” Rep. Khan’s attorney Aaron Romano said after Tuesday’s court proceedings. Under the...
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Legislation aims to address shortage of mental health professionals in schools
“I wouldn’t be where I am today and I think every student should be able to have access to resources like that,” Waterbury Arts Magnet School student Nadina Bhadrasain said. High school junior Nadina Bhadrasain describes the impact a counselor had on her life while she was struggling with mental health and school work. “I was working hours a...
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Mobile bookstore in Hartford aims to highlight authors and protagonists of color
Jennifer Wilder is bringing the bookstore to the block. “After a little bit in the world of literacy, I realized that the narrative about the availability of books of color was a false narrative,” Big Red Book Truck owner Jennifer Wilder said. Wilder created the Big Red Book Truck, a mobile bookstore, to change the narrative about the availability and…
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Examining the state of CT bridges in the aftermath of Baltimore bridge collapse
There is heartbreak felt in Connecticut for the construction workers and residents impacted by the Baltimore bridge collapse. “It’s just an absolute tragedy, the imagery is stark,” CT Department of Transportation spokesperson Josh Morgan said. “The men and women who work on infrastructure around the country are putting their lives on the line every time they go out there.”...
