This story was produced as part of a large project by Jessica Bedolla, a participant in the 2020 National Fellowship, who is exploring, researching and reporting the impact of this worldwide pandemic in communities along the border.
Health Equity & Social Justice

A new investigate series will examine the impact of COVID-19 prevention efforts on vulnerable groups in California's Santa Barbara County.
This story was produced as a larger project by Valeria Fernandez for the 2020 National Fellowship, which focuses on how indigenous, immigrant communities and people of color have been organizing before and during the pandemic in communities of care to find support and healing....

Who is responsible for diversity in schools — the school system or entire community?

It’s been called trading custody for care — the belief that the state can offer something the parents cannot.

A doctor who cares for underserved patients finds her efforts are often rendered useless by systemic barriers to care.

Families share experiences of living through the pandemic and what help they still need.

President-elect Biden will likely move quickly to undo a slew of Trump-era health care policies.

These responses were submitted by members of an advisory board on farmworker housing that featured growers, advocates, and service providers in Monterey County, organized by The Californian reporter Kate Cimini.

Salinas and Monterey County as a whole are some of the least affordable places to live in the U.S., per the 2019 Harvard State of the Nation's housing study.