Holly McDede

Holly J. McDede has spent over four years as a reporter for KALW public radio, producing in depth, sound rich audio pieces on everything from a reunion for former Alcatraz inmates to mental health training for police to efforts to reform the state's sex registry. During that time, she's also led KALW's training programs for high school students, and worked as an editor and producer on the breaking news desk at KCBS radio. Now she is an on-call producer and reporter with KQED, where she files daily news stories and produces The California Report.

Articles

(Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

It was heralded as a model of success. Then San Francisco’s drug overdose crisis exploded.

Those dying from drug overdoses in the city are now disproportionately African American. What changed and why?

Alaina Fox holds a copy of El Gato, the student newspaper of Los Gatos High School, at the school campus in Los Gatos on July 21

Healthcare Systems & Policy

Student journalists say adviser censored reporting on sexual assault

“I think the main word that comes to mind is betrayal,” one student journalist said. “I trusted him and believed in him deeply.”

Mental Health

Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Community Safety

Patient Safety and Ethics

(Reveal/The Center for Investigative Reporting and Molly Mendoza)

When high school students call out sexual assault on social media, reporting challenges abound

Reporting on sexual harassment and assault allegations at a Bay-area high school tested a reporter's understanding around when to grant anonymity, and power and control in storytelling.

Abbi Berry, who graduated from Los Gatos High School in 2018, speaks during a rally over sexual abuse on campus.

Children & Families

How High School Students Launched Their Own #MeToo Movement During the Pandemic

This story by Holly McDede, a 2021 Impact Fellow, is part of a larger project seeking to gather data and understand how often harassment and assault are reported in Californian high schools. ...

Mental Health

Community Safety

A former Berkeley High student sued the district in January 2020, alleging she was sexually assaulted by another student during

Children & Families

How Generations of Berkeley High Students Forced a Reckoning About Sexual Abuse

"We were realizing that a lot of the issues that students at Berkeley High were facing stemmed from national policies," said Ava, a junior at Berkeley High.

Mental Health

Community Safety

Justine Orgel poses for a portrait at Lowell High School in San Francisco on Jan. 9, 2020. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)

Children & Families

Part 1: Lowell Students Say #MeToo. Sexual Abuse Allegations Spark Reckoning at SF High School

Advocates and survivors nationwide spontaneously created accounts over the summer to share hundreds of stories of abuse experienced while they were in high school.

Mental Health

Community Safety

The #MeToo movement hits California high schools

Why are students turning to social media to report sexual harm rather than parents or school administrators?

Community Safety

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Holly McDede

Articles

It was heralded as a model of success. Then San Francisco’s drug overdose crisis exploded.

Student journalists say adviser censored reporting on sexual assault

When high school students call out sexual assault on social media, reporting challenges abound

How High School Students Launched Their Own #MeToo Movement During the Pandemic

How Generations of Berkeley High Students Forced a Reckoning About Sexual Abuse

Part 1: Lowell Students Say #MeToo. Sexual Abuse Allegations Spark Reckoning at SF High School

The #MeToo movement hits California high schools