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Krissy Clark
Krissy Clark served as KQED's Los Angeles bureau chief until 2012. She is an award-winning radio journalist and documentary-maker. As the Los Angeles bureau chief for KQED, she uncovered the people, places and policies that make Southern California such a fascinating region. Clark also is a contributor to NPR, the BBC, American Radio Works, and Freakanomics Radio. She is a former staff reporter and editor for the weekly national news and culture show Weekend America. She spent her early career in a small town in Colorado, reporting on the rural American West for High Country News.
In 2009 Clark received a Knight Journalism Fellowship to spend a year at Stanford University researching location-aware technologies and their applications for innovating journalism. She is a frequent speaker on the future of journalism at universities and media conferences. Her work has earned awards from Public Radio News Directors' Inc., Radio-Television News Directors Association of Northern California, and National Federation of Community Broadcasters. She was a finalist for a Third Coast Festival Award and the Livingston Award, one of journalism's highest honors.
Clark is also the founder of StoriesEverywhere, a location-based storytelling project whose audio installations have been exhibited by The New Museum's Festival of Ideas in New York City and San Francisco's Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. Clark graduated cum laude with honors from Yale University, earning a B.A. in The Humanities. She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and her great-great-grandfather came to California on a mule.
Stories (70 archives)
Life on the Street Holds Special Peril for Transgendered
California has some of the nation's strongest civil rights protections for transgender people. But it's a population that continues to be vulnerable -- one in five transgender people in the state say they've been homeless at some point in their life, according to a survey by the Transgender Law Center. And when they seek help at shelters, many report being turned away, harassed or worse. In Los Angeles, there are new efforts to put a spotlight on those issues.
After Scandal, Bill Aims to Facilitate Teacher Firings
State lawmakers are considering a bill that would make it easier to fire public school teachers in serious cases, like those involving drugs, violence or sex abuse. The bill comes in the wake of a scandal at Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles, where a veteran teacher was allowed to resign rather than be fired -- even after he was charged with 23 counts of lewd acts against children.
Amid Scandal, Lawmakers Reconsider Teacher Layoff Laws
California laws that specify how and when public school teachers can be fired are some of the most detailed in the nation. Wednesday in Sacramento, a state Senate committee will look at two competing bills that rewrite those laws. In the wake of a teacher sexual abuse scandal in Los Angeles, the process has been under close scrutiny.
Slow Job Growth as the Discouraged Return
Economists at UCLA's Anderson School of Management see California's double-digit unemployment rate as improving, but unlikely to come down to pre-recession levels in the next few years. Still, the numbers only tell part of the story.
Historic and Urban: Seemingly Two Strikes Against a State Park
If a state park closes that hardly anyone goes to, does it matter? Pio Pico State Park in eastern Los Angeles County is a patch of history nearly smothered by the growth of the modern Southern California metropolis, and one of the state's least-visited parks. But the history that reverberates inside its walls still resonates with issues shaping California today.
