Erika Kelly

Erika Kelly

Deputy Managing Editor

Erika Kelly is deputy managing editor of KQED's newsroom, working with teams covering housing, climate, health, labor and the arts. Previously, she was the senior editor of KQED’s housing affordability desk, leading the team that produced the award winning podcast Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism and a native of the Greater Chicagoland Area.

By Erika Kelly

Why KQED Focused a Season of Its Housing Podcast on Climate Change

A blue tent has been set up along the wall of a building on a rainy sidewalk on a busy city street. The parking spaces nearest the tent are filled with trash – plastic bags, open takeout containers full of food, a paper cup – and additional trash is piled at the base of a tree next to the tent. In the background, a person in a green jacket walks away down the street.

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