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Adam Garcia at home. Credit: Amir Aziz

Local Groups Aim to Build A ‘Prison-to-tech Pipeline’

Featured in the Oaklandside. Job discrimination against formerly incarcerated people in Oakland and elsewhere is rampant, despite California’s ‘Ban the Box’ law.

Credit: MRWU

Memphis Restaurant Workers Unite!

This episode of the Southern Foodways Alliance’s podcast, Gravy, follows a group of restaurant workers that’s slated to become the first formal union of food and beverage workers in Memphis, Tennessee.

The port of Oakland. Credit: Jimmy O’Dea

West Oakland’s ‘Diesel Death Zone’

I reported and produced this story in collaboration with Northern California Public Media, Mensch Media, and The Oaklandside. The series is a national finalist for the 2022 Edward R. Murrow Award.