Rebecca Plevin

Project Editor

Rebecca Plevin is the project editor at the Fresno Bee bilingual Central Valley News Collaborative. She previously reported on health for the Desert Sun and  KPCC, the NPR station in Los Angeles. She covers infectious diseases and consumer health issues, with a close eye on the cost of health care. She also wrote KPCC's consumer health blog, Impatient.

Prior to working at KPCC, Rebecca spent five years covering health news in California's Central Valley, first for the bilingual paper Vida en el Valle, and then for Fresno-based Valley Public Radio. She also contributed to The Reporting on Health Collaborative's groundbreaking series of stories about valley fever.

Rebecca’s work has appeared on national programs like Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Marketplace. She has also contributed to Capital Public Radio's health documentary series, The View From Here. She's earned an LA Press Club Award for best blog and the George Gruner Award for Meritorious Public Service in Journalism, as well as top honors from the California Newspaper Publishers Association and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

Rebecca grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She's also a fluent Spanish speaker, an avid rock climber and an acro yoga fanatic.

Articles

School farm stands provide produce, smiles

<p>It was a beautiful early spring day yesterday, so I visited the school farm stand at John Burroughs Elementary School.</p><p>At the farm stand, which is open every Wednesday afternoon, two women filled bags with fresh apples, oranges, and “snack packs” of locally harvested nuts and dried fruit. The women asked when the farm stand would start selling vegetables again.</p>

Fresno mothers focus on obesity, community

<p>Gabriela Martinez and Susana Cruz summed up the some of the reasons there is an obesity crisis among the Latino community in the San Joaquín Valley.</p><p>Martínez, an immigrant from Colima, México and the mother of three children, said she has made a serious effort to improve her family's healthy. She has stopped&nbsp;buying her children snacks at the liquor stores that populate her Fresno neighborhood, and she now places a greater emphasis on playing outside with her kids, though she wishes her neighborhood offered more safe areas to ride bikes and play outdoors.</p>