Michelle Raghavan
West Coast Regional Manager
West Coast Regional Manager
Michelle Faust Raghavan collaborates with West Coast newsrooms interested in solutions journalism. She spent eights years reporting on policy issues and hosting for public media stations across the country. Most recently, Michelle covered health care policy at 89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio. Before that, she was an education policy reporter at WCPN/WVIZ in Cleveland. She reported on health at WXXI in Rochester, New York as part of the regional journalism collaborative Side Effects Public Media. Michelle’s broadcast career launched at KAWC in Yuma, Arizona where she hosted Morning Edition. Michelle is passionate about mentorship and is actively involved with NPR’s Next Generation Radio project. Michelle Faust Raghavan was a 2018 Center for Health Journalism Data Fellow and produced a project on elder abuse.
eam in Cleveland.
Her stories have been recognized by the New York State Associated Press Association and won regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for innovation and breaking news.
A lover of languages, Faust Raghavan was a full-time Spanish professor in a previous career.
This story was produced as a project for the USC Center for Health Journalism's 2018 Data Fellowship.
"People talk to me about all sorts of health issues, even addiction and sexual assault. Elder abuse was different."
There are a number of strategies for making sure older people don't fall victim to financial, emotional or physical abuse. One of those strategies might surprise you: Making sure an older person has an active social life.
We tour South L.A.'s Homeless Outreach Program Integrated Care System with L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. Plus, elder abuse is more common than you might think. And, the latest news out of Hollywood.
This story was produced as part of a larger project led by Michelle Faust Raghavan, a participant in the USC Center for Health Journalism's 2018 Data Fellowship.
Taking financial, emotional and physical abuse together, allegations of mistreatment have more than doubled in L.A. and Riverside counties since 2005. In Orange and Ventura counties, that number has nearly tripled over the same time period.