Leilani Clark

Leilani Clark writes about books for KQED Arts. Her writing has been published at Mother Jones, The Guardian, Civil Eats, Time Magazine, Food & Wine, Edible Marin & Wine Country, and The Rumpus. She is the editor of Made Local magazine in Sonoma County. Find her on Twitter @leilclark. Previously, she wasan award-winning staff writer at the North Bay Bohemian, where she reported on a diverse array of topics including the environment, health, food, and the arts. She has written articles on food insecurity in Sonoma County, focusing on the underutilization of the CalFresh program; the effort to develop preventative community health clinics in low-income areas, and about the roll out of a Sonoma County Food Action Plan. She has also filed stories on the struggle to support ‘Disconnected Youth’ in a county where the amount of youth between the ages of 18-24 who are not enrolled in school or otherwise working is shockingly high as well as efforts to build resilient local food systems, including ways to improve the distribution of locally grown foods. A cover story that she wrote in 2012 about the federal crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries in Northern California won in the Best Feature Story category at the California Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspaper Awards. She was a 2014 California Fellow.