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Radio Pacific
KALW
2025 • Reporter, Producer, Host
Selected Works
- Episode 1: Rapid Response Hotline
May 2025
President Trump returned to power promising the largest deportation operation in American history. The episode puts the first months of that policy push in context and examines community-run Rapid Response Hotlines that monitor ICE activity and dispatch legal aid.
- Episode 2: Los Angeles and Fire
June 2025
After the January 7 fires across Los Angeles, this episode looks at California fire from two angles: the role of Indigenous fire stewardship in modern fire management and an audio portrait about growing up with Santa Ana winds.
- Episode 3: A Home by Any Other Name
July 2025
A three-part look at homelessness and displacement across the Bay Area: an I-80 encampment in Berkeley, an RV community in San Francisco, and a group living on boats off the coast of Sausalito.
- Episode 4: MDMA & The Bay
August 2025
An exploration of MDMA's Bay Area roots, from early therapeutic use through federal scheduling and today's research debates, including the FDA's rejection of a recent MDMA-assisted therapy application.
