I spent most of 2022 at NPR. When the layoffs came for me, I landed at KCBS Radio. That was January 2023 and I’ve been running ever since. That’s why this site desperately needs an update.  

Previously:

• • Omicron in Sewage*: text for KQED and audio for NPR 12/9/21
  • Omicron Testing Crunch*: text and audio for NPR 1/10/22
  • Rooftop Solar Battle: audio for NPR 2/18/22 and text for KQED
  • California’s Compost Law: NPR audio Part 1 2/7/22, NPR audio Part 2* 3/14/22 and text for KQED
  • Wildfire Thunderclouds: text for KQED 8/5/21
  • Mistletoe: a holiday-themed 2-way for botany nerds 12/23/21

Live and breaking news:

• • Caldor Fire: Firefighter Fatigue*, feature for KQED and NPR 9/2/21
  • South Lake Tahoe Fire: Mexican Firefighters*, feature for The California Report and NPR 9/5/21
  • Lightning Fires: Calistoga-Live, Grist Mill*, Pope Valley*, Helen of Vacaville*, Forum-Live 10/4-6/20
  • Kincaid Fire: Malfunction Live 2-way, Newscasts 10/24-30/19
  • Shootings: live audio, video and text

Healthcare/Tech:

• • Supervised Injection Sites, reporter Q&A 8/29/18
  • Fertility Preservation, feature
  • COVID-Hospital Chaplain, produced host 2-way 4/11/20 (I found Sr. Donna and produced this interview for California Report host Saul Gonzalez.)
  • COVID-Lockdown, reporter Q&A (We knew so little in the very beginning… My first story about Covid.)
  • Brain Stem Implants, video
  • Military Zeppelin*, video and text
  • DARPA Robots, video and text

Business:

• • Rolling Blackouts, hosted 2-way 8/15/20 (I was solo on a Saturday morning so I had to book, edit, produce, and engineer this 2-way on my own. I booked Wara for 6:15am, recorded with Tape-a-Call, synced it myself, and cut it in time to air at 7:30am.)
  • COVID-Business Insurance, 2-way
  • Student Debt-Generations, video
  • Dry Town, video

Innovative storytelling/production:

• • Port Chicago 50, social video*
  • Afghan Rodeo, social video*
  • All the videos I produced at Timeline.com

Fun:

• • Diego Rivera Mural Moves, 8/25/21
  • Kent Porter photographs climate change, host 2way, 7/2/21
  • Nematodes, feature* (because science)
  • Endangered Mural, feature*
  • Water Sommelier, video
  • Berkeley Rep Podcast, 2-way as local anchor

• More: Hosting, Audio

* = Original story idea