Previous work
Earlier in my career, I was a financial correspondent for UPI and an award-winning staff writer and business columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. My work appeared in The International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, WebMD, and Newsweek, Health and Hippocrates magazines, among other publications. I also served as associate editor for 24 Hours in Cyberspace, the landmark book on one day in the life of the internet.
I also worked as a public school teacher and journalism educator; my students have won hundreds of awards for their work. I served as project designer and editor for “Since Parkland,” a teen-led obituary project that won top honors from Global Youth & News Media and the Online News Association. I also founded Global Student Square, an international student journalism network, and led Newsroom by the Bay, a digital media program.
I’ve received fellowships from the California Endowment/USC Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism, from the Kaiser Family Foundation and from Harvard’s Globalizing the Classroom initiative. I was a John S. Knight fellow in journalism at Stanford.
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Global Student Square
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![A group of nine young people sitting and kneeling on the steps outside a historic-looking building with arches and palm trees in the background.]()
Newsroom by the Bay
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![Collage of young children's black and white photos with text indicating statistics about children killed by guns and stories shared, with the prominent text 'Since Parkland' in the center.]()
Since Parkland
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![A Syrian family, including a boy wrapped in a silver emergency blanket and a woman with a red headscarf, sits on a rocky ground beside vehicles, waiting after arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos amid migration from Turkey.]()
Here Today: Refugee Stories
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![A man with a backpack and gray hat being interviewed by a group of young women and a young man, some of whom are taking notes and photos in an outdoor park setting.]()
"Global Student Square connects student journalists from around the world," Quill & Scroll
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![Headline of Columbia Journalism Review article titled "Teenage journalists memorialize hundreds of gun-violence victims" with a photo of four young people working on a project at a table, focused on their laptops and papers.]()
"Teen journalists memorialize hundreds of gun violence victims," Columbia Journalism Review
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![A group of five young adults sitting at a table, engaged in a discussion or meeting, with one person speaking and gesturing with their hands.]()
"Palisades High students chronicle ‘an epidemic level’ of young people dying from gun violence"
Selected publications / writing about children and teens
“The Long Arm of Childhood: How Chronic Stress Impacts Oakland Teens in Body and Mind,” Oakland Tribune/Bay Area News Group and the Solutions Journalism Network
“Naturalized,” San Francisco Chronicle (op-ed)
“One Week and More Lives Lost: What I Learned From ‘Since Parkland,’” Medium
“No Retrofit: Marquis Woolfolk’s Life Should’ve Been Very Different,” The Mercury-News (San Jose, California)
“Fears of an Oakland schoolteacher,” San Francisco Chronicle
“Replacing the Teacher Replacements,” San Francisco Chronicle
“California’s Future Demands Bigger Investment in Schools,” San Francisco Chronicle
“Teaching in an Oakland school ,” San Francisco Chronicle
