San Francisco’s Mission District makes international news when its struggle against the city’s tech boom infiltrates its most sacred ground: the soccer field. This film was made by a team of four of us over the course of five days for the 2014 Fusion Documentary Challenge. It was a finalist.
The hidden cost of Medicaid
I reported, produced and edited this piece for the PBS NewsHour.
Rare Illness in California Afflicts Children With Polio-Like Symptoms
Polio was eradicated from the U.S. many decades ago. Still, this American mom knows the pain of discovering her child has been paralyzed by a virus. I was the AP and second camera on this great NatGeo video produced by my classmate Jake Nicol.
You can read my reporter’s notebook about working this story on the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting website.
Remembering Port Chicago
Seventy years ago, an explosion near Concord became one of the deadliest industrial accidents in U.S. history.
As KQED’s Sally Schilling reports, some local residents still remember the Port Chicago explosion.
Thieves in Sacred Groves
Old-growth coastal redwoods–the tallest trees in the world–only exist in the Northern California region. Due to heavy logging, only a small percentage of these giants are left today. Some are being attacked. Money-hungry poachers are cutting off the burls (the knobby growths, usually at the bottom of the tree) and selling them for hundreds of dollars per slab. This story is (Produced by Sally Schilling Shooters: Courtney Quirin and Mark Kurlyandchik.)
KQED Newsroom also acquired a version of the story:
Designing-out crime
On one of the most dangerous blocks in San Francisco, police and community organizers take a unique approach. (Reported, Filmed and Produced By Sally Schilling.)
Amid Google Scandal, Family Still Waits For Justice
Kevin Barrera’s family was forced to relive the tragedy of his death last week when disturbing images of the 2009 homicide scene were found on Google Maps. Barrera’s father wants Google to take down the images, but what he wants even more is justice for his son, who was just 14 years old when he was shot and killed in Richmond. Read my story on Richmond Confidential.
Immigrant women in Richmond start worker cooperative
Five immigrant women decided to sacrifice their jobs and their time to start a worker cooperative with no money, just the idea. One woman said they went on food stamps to survive while starting the business with just a few hundred dollars. Find out why these women decided to make sacrifices for the goal of being in a cooperative in my story on Richmond Confidential.
Richmond Mayor Stands With Ecuadorians Against Chevron
Mayor Gayle McLaughlin recently traveled to Ecuador to see for herself the destruction that remains in the wake of Texaco’s oil operations in the Amazon rainforest. Many members of the Richmond community have criticized McLaughlin’s traveling abroad, saying she should be focused on the issues facing Richmond. But the mayor says there are many parallels between how Chevron acts in Richmond and how the company–which purchased Texaco in 2001– deals with Ecuadorian villagers.
Read my story on McLaughlin’s recent Chevron protest here.
See my photo from the protest featured on KQED’s blog here.
KQED Science: San Francisco Wants to Know: Is Your Living Room Window Killing Migratory Birds?
According to the National Bird Conservatory, between 100 million and one billion birds die each year from colliding with glass windows of commercial or residential buildings.
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