KVPR News Director Alice Daniel

Now I Just imagine What Yosemite and Sequoia Are Like Without Any People in Them

Alice Daniel is news director for Valley Public Radio and project director for the station’s “The Other California” podcast. A veteran of print and radio journalism, Daniel is also a lecturer at Fresno State’s Department of Media, Communications and Journalism, and covered the Central Valley from Stockton to Bakersfield and beyond for KQED’s The California Report. The moderator for a Zócalo/The California Wellness Foundation streamed event titled “How Can We Make Farm Work Healthier,” she joined the virtual green room to discuss finding peace in the Sierra Nevadas, the joy …

April 14, 2020

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Health Researcher Chia Thao

Do Things That You Won't Regret in Life

April 14, 2020

Chia Thao, a doctoral candidate in public health at the University of California, Merced, researches pesticide use and the well-being of small-scale farmers in the Central Valley. Before a Zócalo/The …

Medical Sociologist Tania Pacheco-Werner

You're Not a Gold Coin, So Not Everyone's Going to Like You

April 14, 2020

Tania Pacheco-Werner is the co-assistant director at the Central Valley Health Policy Institute at Fresno State. Her latest work on neighborhood health, “Unequal Neighborhoods: Fresno,” uses historical, census, environmental, and …

Former Pacific Gateway Center Deputy Director Terrina Wong

In France You Do Everything That's Prohibited

March 13, 2020

Terrina Wong is the former deputy director at Pacific Gateway Center, which works to empower immigrants, refugees, human trafficking survivors, and low-income residents to achieve self-sufficiency. Previously she was an …

Former Hawai‘i Attorney General and Lieutenant Governor Doug Chin

In Other Places, It’s a Lot Easier to Stab Someone in the Back

March 6, 2020

Hawai‘i litigation attorney Doug Chin served as the state’s attorney general from 2015 to 2018, during which time he filed the case Hawaii v. Trump, a challenge to the president’s …

Aloha Immigration Founder and Attorney Clare Hanusz

I Had a Thing for Lady Sybil

February 28, 2020

Clare Hanusz is the founder of Aloha Immigration and an immigration lawyer with a long career representing, writing about, and advocating for immigrants and more just American policies. She has …

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