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This will help prepare California schoolchildren for good-paying jobs, not just in the arts but in other sectors where the creative-thinking and problem-solving skills they learn can be applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longer term, Prop. 28 will lead to greater diversity in the technology, media and entertainment industries as a broader population of students in California public schools find the doors of opportunity open for them with their newfound skills and experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the benefit of arts education generally for students?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows children who participate in the arts have better attendance in school and higher achievement in academic subjects. In addition, the arts help students with their social and emotional well-being. That’s timely and important as school communities and the children they serve recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>With the passage of Proposition 28, how will California compare to other states in arts education?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The passage of Prop. 28 makes California a leader in arts education and will lead to the largest investment in arts and music in our nation’s history. My hope is this will start a movement which other states join to provide all 55 million children in public schools the opportunity to participate in arts and music at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prop. 28 passed by a wide margin. What does that tell you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 28 passed with more than 64% of the vote, the largest margin of victory ever for an education initiative in California. The state Voter Guide showed our arguments for the initiative while the opposing page was blank but for the words, “No Argument Was Submitted in Opposition to Prop. 28.” Because there are none.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in a long, long time, teachers and school staff were joined by artists and entrepreneurs along with business, labor and community organizations to support public education. Proposition 28 is the first guaranteed increase in funding for California public schools in 34 years. I hope we can build on this and continue to advocate for the best possible education for the children in California’s public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/what-prop-28-funding-will-mean-for-arts-education-in-california/682054\">This story was originally published by EdSource.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Proposition 28 funds will be distributed according to enrollment, with 70% based on overall enrollment and 30% based on Title 1 enrollment. In all, districts will receive an additional 1% of their funding allotment to spend on the arts. School boards must certify districts’ Prop. 28 budgets annually, post the expenses on the district’s website and submit the information to the state Department of Education, where it will be available to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools must spend 80% of the money on teachers and aides, which should help alleviate California’s teacher shortage, with the remainder of the funds earmarked for art supplies and materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We talked to former Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Austin Beutner, a chief backer of Proposition 28, about what students, families and schools can expect when the measure goes into effect in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What, specifically, will Proposition 28 do for California schools?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 28 will provide about $1 billion each year in funding to California public schools, so all 6 million students in pre-K through 12th grade can participate in arts and music at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where will the money come from?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds will come from the state’s general fund. There will be no new taxes or increase in tax rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is arts education important to you, personally?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a shy kid entering a new school in fifth grade during the middle of a school year, my concern was not literacy or math. It was who was I going to have lunch with my first day of school since I didn’t know anyone. Fortunately, a music teacher invited me to a lunchtime class. Cello became bass and then guitar. Along with it came a sense of agency and confidence. I could play in front of thousands of people before I could speak in front of tens. But it all started with a group of friends and a sense of belonging in that fifth grade class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone who has had the opportunity to participate in arts and music has a story like mine. The arts are universal, and they’re the glue that bonds together literacy and math in a good education. I want to make sure every child in every classroom has the opportunity to participate in arts and music and experience their own story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the status of arts education in California schools currently?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, barely 1 in 5 California public schools has a full-time arts or music teacher. That’s not acceptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What kinds of arts activities and projects can students and families expect to see come out of this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 28 will provide funding for traditional forms of creative expression like music, theater, dance and visual arts, as well as more contemporary areas including filmmaking, animation and graphic design. A novel feature of Prop. 28 is each school community will get to decide how the funds are used. We didn’t want the bureaucrats in Sacramento or school districts to dictate any particular approach. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you attended public elementary school in California, you probably remember a popular fourth grade social studies assignment: build a model of a California mission, using popsicle sticks, sugar cubes or clay to mimic the adobe bricks and chapel bell towers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933870\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/BIND10cover_web800px.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11933870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/BIND10cover_web800px.jpg\" alt=\"a book cover with a kid on a horse, the book title is 'Bad Indians' by Deborah A. 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So she turned that elementary school assignment on its head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if children were asked to build a model of a Southern plantation with people in the fields being whipped, or a concentration camp model with enslaved Jews being pushed into ovens?” asks Miranda, echoing a challenge she presents in the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if those lessons were presented in the same way California Indigenous people are presented? As something of the past, something of a curiosity, something that a fourth grader could easily research and write a report and build a model of? I think that by framing it this way as a thought experiment, it has jolted a lot of readers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 510px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Surfing_Facebook_Post.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11933865\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Surfing_Facebook_Post.png\" alt=\"a facebook post displaying a toy mission with an explanation of how the student's thinking around California missions changed after reading 'Bad Indians' by Deborah Miranda\" width=\"510\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Surfing_Facebook_Post.png 510w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Surfing_Facebook_Post-160x151.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Facebook post from University of Washington, Seattle professor Sarah Culpepper Stroup illustrates the impact of Deborah Miranda’s work. \u003ccite>(Facebook/Courtesy of Deborah Miranda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Miranda is an award-winning poet, writer and professor and an enrolled member of the Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area, with Santa Ynez Chumash ancestry. \u003ci>Bad Indians\u003c/i>, which has just been released as an expanded \u003ca href=\"https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/bad-indians-10th-anniversary/\">10th anniversary edition\u003c/a>, explores the history of Central Coast tribes through the records of Miranda’s own ancestors, including wax-cylinder recordings dating back more than a century. She also draws on the treasures she discovered in listening to a garbage bag full of cassette tapes from her grandfather, Tom Miranda, who hid his regalia and love of traditional dance in an era when many California Indians tried to assimilate or mask their Indigenous heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Corrections-to-Cookbook.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933884\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Corrections-to-Cookbook-800x1018.png\" alt=\"a page with factual corrections to a child's coloring book about Native Americans and Spanish settlers\" width=\"800\" height=\"1018\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Corrections-to-Cookbook-800x1018.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Corrections-to-Cookbook-1020x1297.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Corrections-to-Cookbook-160x204.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Corrections-to-Cookbook-1208x1536.png 1208w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Corrections-to-Cookbook.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a new addition to the 10th anniversary edition of ‘Bad Indians,’ Deborah Miranda annotates her daughter’s coloring book with historically accurate information. \u003ccite>(Heyday Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 10th anniversary edition features a rich array of drawings, poems, newspaper clippings, photos and prose, as well as sample “mock” lesson plans that challenge the fourth grade mission-building assignment — which, due in part to Miranda’s scathing critique, has largely been made optional in California public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933886\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Miranda-author-photo-_-Credit-Margo-Solod-sq.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11933886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Miranda-author-photo-_-Credit-Margo-Solod-sq.png\" alt=\"a portrait of a woman with Native American ancestry wearing glasses and a black coat over a blue shirt\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Miranda-author-photo-_-Credit-Margo-Solod-sq.png 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Miranda-author-photo-_-Credit-Margo-Solod-sq-160x160.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah Miranda \u003ccite>(Margo Solod)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other new additions include essays and poems about the 2015 canonization of Father Junipero Serra, the Spanish priest known as the “Father of California Missions.” Miranda and other California Indians were active in protesting the Catholic Church’s decision to make him an official saint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw this canonization as just a continued repetition of the erasure of California Indian lives and voices,” says Miranda. “That our history in California was someone else’s to manipulate. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you attended public elementary school in California, you probably remember a popular fourth grade social studies assignment: build a model of a California mission, using popsicle sticks, sugar cubes or clay to mimic the adobe bricks and chapel bell towers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933870\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/BIND10cover_web800px.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11933870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/BIND10cover_web800px.jpg\" alt=\"a book cover with a kid on a horse, the book title is 'Bad Indians' by Deborah A. 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I think that by framing it this way as a thought experiment, it has jolted a lot of readers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 510px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Surfing_Facebook_Post.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11933865\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Surfing_Facebook_Post.png\" alt=\"a facebook post displaying a toy mission with an explanation of how the student's thinking around California missions changed after reading 'Bad Indians' by Deborah Miranda\" width=\"510\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Surfing_Facebook_Post.png 510w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Surfing_Facebook_Post-160x151.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Facebook post from University of Washington, Seattle professor Sarah Culpepper Stroup illustrates the impact of Deborah Miranda’s work. \u003ccite>(Facebook/Courtesy of Deborah Miranda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Miranda is an award-winning poet, writer and professor and an enrolled member of the Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area, with Santa Ynez Chumash ancestry. \u003ci>Bad Indians\u003c/i>, which has just been released as an expanded \u003ca href=\"https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/bad-indians-10th-anniversary/\">10th anniversary edition\u003c/a>, explores the history of Central Coast tribes through the records of Miranda’s own ancestors, including wax-cylinder recordings dating back more than a century. She also draws on the treasures she discovered in listening to a garbage bag full of cassette tapes from her grandfather, Tom Miranda, who hid his regalia and love of traditional dance in an era when many California Indians tried to assimilate or mask their Indigenous heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Corrections-to-Cookbook.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933884\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Corrections-to-Cookbook-800x1018.png\" alt=\"a page with factual corrections to a child's coloring book about Native Americans and Spanish settlers\" width=\"800\" height=\"1018\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Corrections-to-Cookbook-800x1018.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Corrections-to-Cookbook-1020x1297.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Corrections-to-Cookbook-160x204.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Corrections-to-Cookbook-1208x1536.png 1208w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Corrections-to-Cookbook.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a new addition to the 10th anniversary edition of ‘Bad Indians,’ Deborah Miranda annotates her daughter’s coloring book with historically accurate information. \u003ccite>(Heyday Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 10th anniversary edition features a rich array of drawings, poems, newspaper clippings, photos and prose, as well as sample “mock” lesson plans that challenge the fourth grade mission-building assignment — which, due in part to Miranda’s scathing critique, has largely been made optional in California public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933886\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Miranda-author-photo-_-Credit-Margo-Solod-sq.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11933886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Miranda-author-photo-_-Credit-Margo-Solod-sq.png\" alt=\"a portrait of a woman with Native American ancestry wearing glasses and a black coat over a blue shirt\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Miranda-author-photo-_-Credit-Margo-Solod-sq.png 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Miranda-author-photo-_-Credit-Margo-Solod-sq-160x160.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah Miranda \u003ccite>(Margo Solod)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other new additions include essays and poems about the 2015 canonization of Father Junipero Serra, the Spanish priest known as the “Father of California Missions.” Miranda and other California Indians were active in protesting the Catholic Church’s decision to make him an official saint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The justices didn’t do that, but agreed to the administration’s fallback, setting arguments for late February or early March over whether the program is legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden’s plan promises $10,000 in federal student debt forgiveness to those with incomes of less than $125,000, or households earning less than $250,000. 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They called it an unfair government giveaway for relatively affluent people at the expense of taxpayers who didn’t pursue higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican, said in a statement following the high court order that the Biden plan “would saddle Americans who didn’t take out loans or already paid theirs off with even more economic woes.” Missouri is one of the six states that sued to block the plan, along with Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and South Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The program’s path to the Supreme Court\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration has argued that the loan cancellations are legal under a 2003 law aimed at providing help to members of the military. 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Allowing the cancellations to proceed before a definitive court ruling would have had an “irreversible impact,” the appeals court said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, issued a more sweeping ruling in the Texas case, finding that such a costly program required clear congressional authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What about the pause on student loan repayments?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In March 2020, the Trump administration temporarily paused \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/covid-19/payment-pause-zero-interest\">student loan payments\u003c/a> and set interest rates to 0% for eligible federal student loans in response to the COVID pandemic. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains clarifications.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a storage room behind an old dance studio in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood, four volunteers busily pack diapers, wipes, fresh produce and other household essentials into cardboard boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asmara Gebre, a nurse-midwife and founder of \u003ca href=\"https://oneloveblackcommunity.org/\">One Love Black Community\u003c/a>, a local group dedicated to improving Black people’s access to reproductive health care, shuffles through notes. She calls a client who gave birth a month earlier to find out what she needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you already have a hand pump or just an electric pump?” Gebre asks. “Are you exclusively breastfeeding or formula feeding, too?”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Asmara Gebre, nurse-midwife and founder, One Love Black Community\"]‘I have not met one patient that doesn’t care about their pregnancy or want the best for themselves and their baby, though there are so many factors around them that are influencing their ability to engage or not engage in the kind of quality of care that they want.’[/pullquote]Once the boxes are filled and crammed into car trunks and back seats, the volunteers caravan across San Francisco to make deliveries to expectant and new Black parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Sunday Show Ups” began at the start of the pandemic when Gebre noticed that few of the Black patients at her Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital clinic were taking advantage of a pantry a doctor had set up for pregnant patients. Concerned about insufficient outreach to a vulnerable population during an uncertain time, Gebre sought donations on social media for her Black patients, and the grassroots effort took off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were disparities in access to masks, access to education and factual information around the pandemic,” Gebre says. “Out of this hard period, we created a space where we can engage in conversations and give back to the community in a positive way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a face mask looking down and holding a cellphone stands next to a woman wearing a brown hooded sweater outside. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One Love Black Community organizer Asmara Gebre speaks with expectant mother Tanisha Bell about resources for her newborn in Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco, on Nov. 13, 2022, during the organization’s ‘Sunday Show Up.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The focus on Black families is personal and purposeful: Gebre, 34, was living in a home for pregnant people more than 15 years ago. She relates to the multitude of challenges her patients face. As a medical professional, she has seen Black birthing people suffer from higher rates of pregnancy-related complications and preterm births even as the city’s Black population dwindles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Black birthing people make up \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/MCHdocs/Epi/2022/5-3%20_Disparities_in_preterm_birth_and_days_of_gestation_lost_2020-2021.pdf\">half of the city’s pregnancy-related deaths, and Black children make up 15% of infant deaths (PDF)\u003c/a> despite representing just 4% of all births. City data also shows nearly 14% of Black infants are born prematurely compared with 7.3% of white infants. It’s a cause for alarm because preterm babies are more likely to experience chronic disease, not to mention learning and behavioral difficulties in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, the donations included masks, hand sanitizer, diapers, children’s books, produce and money. The cash donations allowed Gebre to distribute $200 per household — no strings attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As her network of volunteers grew, so did her reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933208\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women standing outside with the woman on the right wearing all black and the woman on the left wearing a green jacket with a black t-shirt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassandra Perkins (left) and Asmara Gebre pose for a portrait on Treasure Island after making all their deliveries during One Love Black Community’s ‘Sunday Show Up’ on Nov. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the help of her most dedicated volunteer, Cassandra Perkins — an outreach coordinator for the San Francisco Department of Public Health — they expanded their deliveries to new parents participating in the California Black Infant Health program and to pregnant people who are unhoused. They also aligned with several Bay Area initiatives that are trying to address \u003ca href=\"https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/weathering-what-are-the-health-effects-of-stress-and-discrimination\">racial inequalities to improve Black maternal health\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perkins has spent the last 23 years working in HIV and family planning clinics in the city’s Black neighborhoods. She has an easy smile and is the kind of person who gives away books, socks and toiletries stashed in her car to people she meets on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She calls the Sunday Show-Ups her church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look like them, so it’s easier for them to relate to me … just to inform, educate and be of service and always treat people with dignity and respect and you get it back tenfold,” Perkins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said after birthing patients leave the hospital and recover at home, many of them miss out on information about services focused on Black people’s health. The home visits are filling a crucial gap in postpartum care and establishes One Love Black Community as a reliable source of information to a community wary of outsiders after experiencing decades of poverty, environmental injustice and racial discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bayview-Hunters Point became a Black neighborhood in the 1940s as African Americans from the Gulf Coast migrated to the Bay Area to work at the nearby Navy shipyard. After World War II ended, jobs evaporated. Black people, who were limited in where they could live in San Francisco due to racist housing policy, were left languishing in the area, surrounded by pollution left over from the shipyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they show initiative in how much they care to help you, then that’s the most helpful because they make you want to put more initiative into yourself,” says Charise Haley, who met Perkins when she was living on the streets and pregnant with her now 10-month-old son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley, who continues to cope with losing her partner to suicide, says she’s close to receiving a subsidized apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cassandra is one of my favorite people because if it wasn’t for her actually believing in what I can do, I probably wouldn’t be where I am right now,” she says about Perkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley was among seven women who received deliveries on one Sunday last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses puts a small child into a stroller shaped like a toy car.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charise Haley picks up her son Isaiah from his toy car outside her home in San Francisco on Nov. 13, 2022, during a visit by One Love Black Community volunteers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I ride with Gebre in her SUV that’s cluttered with baby supplies in the back and her half-eaten breakfast in the front. A tireless multitasker, she also finds time to lead \u003ca href=\"https://blackcentering.ucsf.edu/\">Black Centering\u003c/a>, a program at SF General where she organizes nature walks, CPR classes and other community-building activities for expectant Black parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perkins and Katiana Carey-Simms, a midwifery student, follow in two other cars filled with supplies. Meanwhile, Gebre’s son Devin comes along to pack and haul boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We go uphill to an apartment complex overlooking the bay and meet Crystal Hill, who is receiving her first delivery from One Love Black Community. Inside her unit, football plays on the TV while Hill’s 2-month-old boy lies in a baby swing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big pots of stew simmer in the kitchen, and the aroma prompts Gebre to offer to sign Hill up for six weeks of meals delivered by \u003ca href=\"https://www.m2mpostpartum.org/nourish\">Postpartum Justice\u003c/a>, an organization that recruits Bay Area restaurants to cook nourishing meals for Black people healing from childbirth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to start getting healthy because I have high blood pressure and diabetes that stayed with me after [pregnancy],” Hill, 40, tells her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This would be a beautiful transition, just having some nice meals and sharing with the family and thinking differently,” Gebre replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A short drive later, we stop at the Bayview home of a pregnant woman Perkins recently met while shopping at Safeway. Perkins urges the woman, who declines to be interviewed, to enroll in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.expectingjustice.org/\">Abundant Birth Project\u003c/a> because she is in her first trimester and thus eligible. The guaranteed income program gives $1,000 per month to a randomly selected group of Black and Pacific Islander pregnant people who face some of the greatest degrees of income inequality in one of the nation’s most expensive cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sitting on a couch holding a baby.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Hall holds her newborn, Harleigh Quin, at her home in Bayview on Nov. 13, 2022, while visiting with volunteers from One Love Black Community. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The experiment is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mayorsforagi.org/\">growing number of guaranteed income programs\u003c/a> responding to racial and economic inequality by giving unconditional cash directly to people in need. Abundant Birth’s goal is to ease financial stress for these people and improve their health outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gebre stopped taking cash gifts for a while due to tax reasons, but has resumed accepting them as donations after receiving fiscal sponsorship from the San Francisco Public Health Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She estimates 300 women have received deliveries from One Love Black Community in just over two years. This Christmas, she hopes to show up for 100 families with the help of volunteers from a Black sorority for registered nurses, Lambda Chi Chi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalls the small acts of kindness that made a big difference for her when she was raising Devin in the Santa Cruz area. Gebre volunteered at a horse ranch when Devin was a boy. When someone there saw her struggling, they slipped a surprise in the book Gebre was reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Early Childhood Education and Care' tag='early-childhood-education-and-care']“I remember one day I was running out of gas and was like, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to get through this week of school.’ I opened the book and there was $100 in cash in there,” Gebre says. “There were so many moments where my community showed up for me. Little things here and there, but they add up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s driven to give back because of the support she received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we reach Sabrina Hall at her home in an industrial part of the Bayview, Gebre and Perkins pitch the postpartum meals and \u003ca href=\"https://womenshealth.ucsf.edu/coe/embrace-perinatal-care-black-families\">online support group\u003c/a> for Black moms facilitated by UC San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall, 41, says she developed gestational diabetes during pregnancy and suffered nerve damage and other complications after delivering her daughter, Harleigh Quin, three weeks early. The baby weighed just 5 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience was nonetheless an improvement from four previous pregnancies, Hall says. She participated in the guaranteed income study, and says the extra cash helped her buy baby gear and catch up on some bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With my other kids, no one told me about doulas. [There was] just a lack of education,” Hall says. “This birth, I had a doula, I had Black Infant Health — you know, just the support. I had no one to speak for me with the medical office or the staff. And this time I had an advocate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933204\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Boxes filled with diapers, formula and other essentials sitting in a cart.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boxes filled with diapers, formula and other essentials are loaded into a car to be delivered to mothers throughout San Francisco and Treasure Island as a part of One Love Black Community’s ‘Sunday Show Up’ on Nov. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in the car, Gebre says since the guaranteed income pilot launched two years ago, she noticed that patients who receive the money participate more actively in their prenatal care. For example, patients in transitional housing were more likely to find transportation to show up for their appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not met one patient that doesn’t care about their pregnancy or want the best for themselves and their baby, though there are so many factors around them that are influencing their ability to engage or not engage in the kind of quality of care that they want,” she says. “When you’re able to provide additional resources to minimize those stress factors — that burden, that toll is no longer present — you can notice the difference in patients and how they engage in care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She drives across a section of the Bay Bridge and exits onto Treasure Island, passing a housing construction project and new ferry terminal. She parks in front of a cluster of townhouses to check on her former patient Danesha Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are you?” Gebre asks while hugging Johnson, who gave birth a month earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The recovery is fine, no complications. I’m fine,” the 21-year-old says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Johnson’s partner, Darrian Burrows, comes out to carry the supplies inside, Gebre tells Perkins that he assisted her in the delivery room and caught his daughter when Johnson made her final push. Perkins remembers seeing him in the hospital when Johnson was in labor, and she’s overcome with emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was so beautiful for you to be in the tub with her when she was going through labor to help ease things,” she says as tears fill her eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re giving me the chills, because I work in our communities of color and they’re always giving our men a hard time,” Perkins continues. “And some programs, there’s something for the mom and the baby but they don’t want the dad involved. So just to see you all as a couple and loving one another and having a baby brung into this world together … .”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bearing witness to a happy, healthy birth makes her want to keep this thing going, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nov. 30: This story has been updated to reflect that One Love Black Community is inclusive of all Black people accessing reproductive services in San Francisco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Concerned about insufficient outreach to a vulnerable population during an uncertain time, Gebre sought donations on social media for her Black patients, and the grassroots effort took off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were disparities in access to masks, access to education and factual information around the pandemic,” Gebre says. “Out of this hard period, we created a space where we can engage in conversations and give back to the community in a positive way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a face mask looking down and holding a cellphone stands next to a woman wearing a brown hooded sweater outside. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One Love Black Community organizer Asmara Gebre speaks with expectant mother Tanisha Bell about resources for her newborn in Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco, on Nov. 13, 2022, during the organization’s ‘Sunday Show Up.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The focus on Black families is personal and purposeful: Gebre, 34, was living in a home for pregnant people more than 15 years ago. She relates to the multitude of challenges her patients face. As a medical professional, she has seen Black birthing people suffer from higher rates of pregnancy-related complications and preterm births even as the city’s Black population dwindles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Black birthing people make up \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/MCHdocs/Epi/2022/5-3%20_Disparities_in_preterm_birth_and_days_of_gestation_lost_2020-2021.pdf\">half of the city’s pregnancy-related deaths, and Black children make up 15% of infant deaths (PDF)\u003c/a> despite representing just 4% of all births. City data also shows nearly 14% of Black infants are born prematurely compared with 7.3% of white infants. It’s a cause for alarm because preterm babies are more likely to experience chronic disease, not to mention learning and behavioral difficulties in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, the donations included masks, hand sanitizer, diapers, children’s books, produce and money. The cash donations allowed Gebre to distribute $200 per household — no strings attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As her network of volunteers grew, so did her reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933208\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women standing outside with the woman on the right wearing all black and the woman on the left wearing a green jacket with a black t-shirt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassandra Perkins (left) and Asmara Gebre pose for a portrait on Treasure Island after making all their deliveries during One Love Black Community’s ‘Sunday Show Up’ on Nov. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the help of her most dedicated volunteer, Cassandra Perkins — an outreach coordinator for the San Francisco Department of Public Health — they expanded their deliveries to new parents participating in the California Black Infant Health program and to pregnant people who are unhoused. They also aligned with several Bay Area initiatives that are trying to address \u003ca href=\"https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/weathering-what-are-the-health-effects-of-stress-and-discrimination\">racial inequalities to improve Black maternal health\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perkins has spent the last 23 years working in HIV and family planning clinics in the city’s Black neighborhoods. She has an easy smile and is the kind of person who gives away books, socks and toiletries stashed in her car to people she meets on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She calls the Sunday Show-Ups her church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look like them, so it’s easier for them to relate to me … just to inform, educate and be of service and always treat people with dignity and respect and you get it back tenfold,” Perkins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said after birthing patients leave the hospital and recover at home, many of them miss out on information about services focused on Black people’s health. The home visits are filling a crucial gap in postpartum care and establishes One Love Black Community as a reliable source of information to a community wary of outsiders after experiencing decades of poverty, environmental injustice and racial discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bayview-Hunters Point became a Black neighborhood in the 1940s as African Americans from the Gulf Coast migrated to the Bay Area to work at the nearby Navy shipyard. After World War II ended, jobs evaporated. Black people, who were limited in where they could live in San Francisco due to racist housing policy, were left languishing in the area, surrounded by pollution left over from the shipyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they show initiative in how much they care to help you, then that’s the most helpful because they make you want to put more initiative into yourself,” says Charise Haley, who met Perkins when she was living on the streets and pregnant with her now 10-month-old son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley, who continues to cope with losing her partner to suicide, says she’s close to receiving a subsidized apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cassandra is one of my favorite people because if it wasn’t for her actually believing in what I can do, I probably wouldn’t be where I am right now,” she says about Perkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley was among seven women who received deliveries on one Sunday last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses puts a small child into a stroller shaped like a toy car.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charise Haley picks up her son Isaiah from his toy car outside her home in San Francisco on Nov. 13, 2022, during a visit by One Love Black Community volunteers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I ride with Gebre in her SUV that’s cluttered with baby supplies in the back and her half-eaten breakfast in the front. A tireless multitasker, she also finds time to lead \u003ca href=\"https://blackcentering.ucsf.edu/\">Black Centering\u003c/a>, a program at SF General where she organizes nature walks, CPR classes and other community-building activities for expectant Black parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perkins and Katiana Carey-Simms, a midwifery student, follow in two other cars filled with supplies. Meanwhile, Gebre’s son Devin comes along to pack and haul boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We go uphill to an apartment complex overlooking the bay and meet Crystal Hill, who is receiving her first delivery from One Love Black Community. Inside her unit, football plays on the TV while Hill’s 2-month-old boy lies in a baby swing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big pots of stew simmer in the kitchen, and the aroma prompts Gebre to offer to sign Hill up for six weeks of meals delivered by \u003ca href=\"https://www.m2mpostpartum.org/nourish\">Postpartum Justice\u003c/a>, an organization that recruits Bay Area restaurants to cook nourishing meals for Black people healing from childbirth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to start getting healthy because I have high blood pressure and diabetes that stayed with me after [pregnancy],” Hill, 40, tells her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This would be a beautiful transition, just having some nice meals and sharing with the family and thinking differently,” Gebre replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A short drive later, we stop at the Bayview home of a pregnant woman Perkins recently met while shopping at Safeway. Perkins urges the woman, who declines to be interviewed, to enroll in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.expectingjustice.org/\">Abundant Birth Project\u003c/a> because she is in her first trimester and thus eligible. The guaranteed income program gives $1,000 per month to a randomly selected group of Black and Pacific Islander pregnant people who face some of the greatest degrees of income inequality in one of the nation’s most expensive cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sitting on a couch holding a baby.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Hall holds her newborn, Harleigh Quin, at her home in Bayview on Nov. 13, 2022, while visiting with volunteers from One Love Black Community. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The experiment is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mayorsforagi.org/\">growing number of guaranteed income programs\u003c/a> responding to racial and economic inequality by giving unconditional cash directly to people in need. Abundant Birth’s goal is to ease financial stress for these people and improve their health outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gebre stopped taking cash gifts for a while due to tax reasons, but has resumed accepting them as donations after receiving fiscal sponsorship from the San Francisco Public Health Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She estimates 300 women have received deliveries from One Love Black Community in just over two years. This Christmas, she hopes to show up for 100 families with the help of volunteers from a Black sorority for registered nurses, Lambda Chi Chi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalls the small acts of kindness that made a big difference for her when she was raising Devin in the Santa Cruz area. Gebre volunteered at a horse ranch when Devin was a boy. When someone there saw her struggling, they slipped a surprise in the book Gebre was reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I remember one day I was running out of gas and was like, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to get through this week of school.’ I opened the book and there was $100 in cash in there,” Gebre says. “There were so many moments where my community showed up for me. Little things here and there, but they add up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s driven to give back because of the support she received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we reach Sabrina Hall at her home in an industrial part of the Bayview, Gebre and Perkins pitch the postpartum meals and \u003ca href=\"https://womenshealth.ucsf.edu/coe/embrace-perinatal-care-black-families\">online support group\u003c/a> for Black moms facilitated by UC San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall, 41, says she developed gestational diabetes during pregnancy and suffered nerve damage and other complications after delivering her daughter, Harleigh Quin, three weeks early. The baby weighed just 5 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience was nonetheless an improvement from four previous pregnancies, Hall says. She participated in the guaranteed income study, and says the extra cash helped her buy baby gear and catch up on some bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With my other kids, no one told me about doulas. [There was] just a lack of education,” Hall says. “This birth, I had a doula, I had Black Infant Health — you know, just the support. I had no one to speak for me with the medical office or the staff. And this time I had an advocate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933204\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Boxes filled with diapers, formula and other essentials sitting in a cart.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boxes filled with diapers, formula and other essentials are loaded into a car to be delivered to mothers throughout San Francisco and Treasure Island as a part of One Love Black Community’s ‘Sunday Show Up’ on Nov. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in the car, Gebre says since the guaranteed income pilot launched two years ago, she noticed that patients who receive the money participate more actively in their prenatal care. For example, patients in transitional housing were more likely to find transportation to show up for their appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not met one patient that doesn’t care about their pregnancy or want the best for themselves and their baby, though there are so many factors around them that are influencing their ability to engage or not engage in the kind of quality of care that they want,” she says. “When you’re able to provide additional resources to minimize those stress factors — that burden, that toll is no longer present — you can notice the difference in patients and how they engage in care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She drives across a section of the Bay Bridge and exits onto Treasure Island, passing a housing construction project and new ferry terminal. She parks in front of a cluster of townhouses to check on her former patient Danesha Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are you?” Gebre asks while hugging Johnson, who gave birth a month earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The recovery is fine, no complications. I’m fine,” the 21-year-old says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Johnson’s partner, Darrian Burrows, comes out to carry the supplies inside, Gebre tells Perkins that he assisted her in the delivery room and caught his daughter when Johnson made her final push. Perkins remembers seeing him in the hospital when Johnson was in labor, and she’s overcome with emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was so beautiful for you to be in the tub with her when she was going through labor to help ease things,” she says as tears fill her eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re giving me the chills, because I work in our communities of color and they’re always giving our men a hard time,” Perkins continues. “And some programs, there’s something for the mom and the baby but they don’t want the dad involved. So just to see you all as a couple and loving one another and having a baby brung into this world together … .”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bearing witness to a happy, healthy birth makes her want to keep this thing going, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nov. 30: This story has been updated to reflect that One Love Black Community is inclusive of all Black people accessing reproductive services in San Francisco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> University of California academic researchers and postdoctoral scholars agreed on a tentative contract with the university system, 15 days into a massive, statewide strike, union leaders announced Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed five-year deal, reached after midnight, addresses workers’ key demands, including significant cost-of-living wage increases — of up to $12,000 by next year — as well as paid family leave and stronger job security, according to a union press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neal Sweeney, president of United Auto Workers Local 5810, which represents the two bargaining units involved, called the concessions “historic,” saying they would amount to “the largest salary increase of a postdoctoral scholars’ union contract that I’ve seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These two contracts and the contracts that will come hopefully in a short number of days [for the other bargaining units] really set the standard,” Sweeney said. “I think it’s the start of a reconsideration of how university researchers are treated across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/stealyrcarbon/status/1597626560005038080\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roughly 12,000 workers who would be covered under the agreement make up just about a quarter of the nearly 48,000 academic workers striking statewide. Those still in negotiations with UC include some 19,000 part-time graduate student instructors and teaching assistants and about 17,000 student researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sweeney said the postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers his union represents plan to remain on the picket line until the agreement is ratified — possibly by next week — and are pledging to continue striking in solidarity with the remaining 36,000 academic workers still seeking a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re calling on the university to seriously come to the table, make serious proposals to academic student employees and student researchers who are still bargaining, and to make sure that they can reach fair agreements to recognize the contributions that our colleagues make,” Sweeney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, UC officials called the workers “vital to UC’s research activities,” and said the terms of the agreement “uphold our tradition of supporting these employees with compensation and benefits packages that are among the best in the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most postdoctoral scholars, the tentative agreement includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A 20%–23% salary increase (of up to $12,000) by October 2023, with the lowest-paid postdoctoral workers slated to receive a 57% bump over five years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Annual increases of 3% to 7.2% for most postdoctoral workers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eight weeks of paid parental and family leave (up from the current four weeks), paid at 100%.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>New child care subsidies starting at $2,500 annually and increasing to $2,800.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Longer appointments to improve job security, and stronger protections against bullying and to support workers with disabilities.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Transportation benefits, including a commitment for free transit passes within three years and an e-bike discount of at least 15%.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For academic researchers, the agreement includes similar enhanced job-protection and family-leave benefits, as well as an average 29% salary increase over the five-year contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 6 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe strike by University of California academic workers is now entering its third week, continuing what organizers have called the largest higher-education labor action in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With final exams and the end-of-semester grading period looming, nearly 48,000 graduate students, post-docs and researchers from across the system’s 10 campuses have continued to participate in the work stoppage, which began Nov. 14. Union organizers say little progress has been made in meeting \u003ca href=\"https://www.fairucnow.org/cola/\">their key demands\u003c/a>, which include significant wage increases tied to the cost of housing; transportation and child care subsidies; and guaranteed accommodations for workers with disabilities.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11932746,forum_2010101891301,news_11932147\"]“It’s been 11 days now since the university bargained with us at all over the most important thing right now, which is compensation and generally the economic portions of our contract. So the university is just choosing to stall us out at the moment, and we find that unconscionable,” said Tanzil Chowdhury, a graduate student research assistant at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a bargaining team member for Student Researchers United, one of the four academic worker bargaining units represented by the United Auto Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It shows that they’re willing to put just about everything that this university stands for at risk,” he added. “The research that we do [and] the teaching that we provide are very important to the functioning of the university and, I think, to the whole state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, a representative for the university system said that there had been a pause in negotiations after Nov. 23 for the Thanksgiving break, and that talks were scheduled to resume this week. Ryan King, associate director of media relations at UC’s Office of the President, emphasized that there have been more than 50 bargaining sessions with union leaders since last spring that have yielded 95 tentative agreements “on issues ranging from workplace accessibility, to respectful work environments, to nondiscrimination in employment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “the union’s proposal to tie wages and pay increases to housing rents would have a large-scale and unpredictable financial impact on the University,” King said in the email. He added that “the rents assessed to graduate and undergraduate students for University housing are already 20-25 percent below market rates, with some campuses providing even deeper discounts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UAW has accused UC of unfair bargaining practices, alleging that UC has improperly withheld information about wages and stipends on some campuses — in one case for two years. 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Strikers are calling for improved wages and benefits at the 10 UC public university campuses across California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the strike drags on, a growing number of professors across the UC system have voiced support for the workers: As of Monday, around 300 faculty members have signed a \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/ucfacultypledgeofsolidarity/home\">solidarity pledge\u003c/a> promising to honor the workers’ picket lines by, among other actions, “withdrawing our instructional labor, including teaching classes (with or without TA’s; virtual or in-person), advising, and grading, for as long as the strike endures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of signatories includes notable names such as renowned activist Angela Davis, who teaches at UC Santa Cruz, and philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler, of UC Berkeley, as well as UCSF doctor and musician \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855177/doctor-musician-and-activist-rupa-marya-offers-a-healing-balm-on-new-april-fishes-album\">Rupa Marya\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chowdhury said the striking workers have received “overwhelmingly positive” support from undergraduate students as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think undergrads know how critical we are to the mission of the university,” he said. “I think they understand that the working conditions we face result in worse learning conditions for them. 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So the university is just choosing to stall us out at the moment, and we find that unconscionable,” said Tanzil Chowdhury, a graduate student research assistant at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a bargaining team member for Student Researchers United, one of the four academic worker bargaining units represented by the United Auto Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It shows that they’re willing to put just about everything that this university stands for at risk,” he added. “The research that we do [and] the teaching that we provide are very important to the functioning of the university and, I think, to the whole state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, a representative for the university system said that there had been a pause in negotiations after Nov. 23 for the Thanksgiving break, and that talks were scheduled to resume this week. Ryan King, associate director of media relations at UC’s Office of the President, emphasized that there have been more than 50 bargaining sessions with union leaders since last spring that have yielded 95 tentative agreements “on issues ranging from workplace accessibility, to respectful work environments, to nondiscrimination in employment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “the union’s proposal to tie wages and pay increases to housing rents would have a large-scale and unpredictable financial impact on the University,” King said in the email. He added that “the rents assessed to graduate and undergraduate students for University housing are already 20-25 percent below market rates, with some campuses providing even deeper discounts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UAW has accused UC of unfair bargaining practices, alleging that UC has improperly withheld information about wages and stipends on some campuses — in one case for two years. 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"content": "\u003cp>Throughout my life, I’ve fielded the question of whether or not I speak Japanese. It’s my heritage language, because it’s the language my mom speaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But my mom never raised me to speak it. The reason goes back five years before I was born, when my mom was pregnant with my older brother, Max.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Breastfeeding and bilingualism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the time, she made two firm parenting choices for her soon-to-be-born son: to raise him to be bilingual and to breastfeed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom considered breastfeeding the first positive thing she could do for the health of her newborn. But when he was born in 1994, Max wasn’t able to latch or suck. So instead, my mom used a pump to bottle-feed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that time, I thought it [was] because of me,” my mom, Yasuko Bloom, said. English isn’t her first language, so I’ve corrected it here for clarity. “I felt really bad. 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His heartbeat had been weak, so the doctor told my mom she’d have to perform an emergency cesarean. Then, when he was born, Max had undescended testicles, a weak cry and poor muscle tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought everything, it should be normal,” my mom said. “But it was very different from the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weak muscle tone turned out to be the reason Max wasn’t able to breastfeed. But when my mom brought her concerns to Max’s pediatrician, he brushed her off and told her that all first-time mothers worry. She recalls him telling her that everything was fine, and Max was a happy baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s true, he was a happy baby, as she recalls. He rarely cried and was a delightfully friendly child who’d go up to strangers and stretch his chubby arms out, asking to be picked up, and melt, at complete ease, in their arms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And once my mom made the switch from formula to regular food, she says Max had no problems eating. In fact, it seemed he would eat anything as a baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could go to a restaurant and order a plate of steamed broccoli,” my dad, Ira Bloom, said. “And he would sit there happily eating the steamed broccoli. And people, you know, their eyes were agog. Who was this kid eating the vegetables?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From disbelief to acceptance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even though my mom’s first nonnegotiable parenting goal fell through, she was still committed to teaching him his heritage language, Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom was born in Japan and met my dad, who’s American and white, in Okayama Prefecture in 1986. At the time, she was working as a fashion designer and my dad was teaching English. Three months after they met, my parents got engaged, moved to the United States and got married, eventually settling in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1907px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56017_family-photo-2005-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11914820 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56017_family-photo-2005-1.jpg\" alt=\"A family - father, mother, young son and young daughter - pose for a photo.\" width=\"1907\" height=\"1693\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56017_family-photo-2005-1.jpg 1907w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56017_family-photo-2005-1-800x710.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56017_family-photo-2005-1-1020x906.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56017_family-photo-2005-1-160x142.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56017_family-photo-2005-1-1536x1364.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1907px) 100vw, 1907px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ira, Yasuko, Izzy and Max Bloom on a family trip to northern Okayama Prefecture in Japan, circa 2005. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Bloom family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Raising her children to be bilingual felt really important to my mom because she worried her kids wouldn’t understand her, not only linguistically, but she also feared we would never really know her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did worry about if my kids didn’t understand Japanese, maybe [they’d] never really get to know me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for the first three years of Max’s life, my mom spoke to him exclusively in Japanese. She fondly remembers carrying Max while walking through the house singing Japanese lullabies. Meanwhile, my dad spoke to him only in English, so Max could learn both languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Max wasn’t really picking up either language. In fact, he wasn’t hitting any of the development milestones my parents expected to see: sitting upright, crawling, babbling, walking and talking. And when my mom started taking Max to day care, the differences between him and the other kids his age became glaringly obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She insisted that Max get genetically tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1997, at the age of 3, Max was diagnosed with a \u003ca href=\"https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/prader-willi-syndrome/#:~:text=Prader%2DWilli%20syndrome%20(PWS),growth%20and%20other%20hormone%20deficiency.\">rare genetic disorder called Prader-Willi Syndrome\u003c/a>, or PWS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though he was delayed, I never expected that something is really totally wrong to carry on into his life,” my mom said. “I was expecting something wrong but, you know, maybe a little delay. But he would catch up at some point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But everything my mom read about the disorder only heightened her concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The scary thing was reading the articles, and I was scared of the future,” she said. “What kind of future [is] waiting for him? For us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most distinct symptom for people with PWS is hyperphagia, an unabating hunger and unrelenting, compulsive urge to consume food. They can also have physical challenges like a lack of muscle tone, stunted growth and poor motor skills, as well as cognitive deficits and profound learning disabilities. Many develop diabetes and life-threatening obesity, struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder and attention-deficit issues, and can become aggressive in their pursuit of food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were devastated, went through the grieving process,” my dad said of getting Max’s diagnosis. “I remember everything. Being angry. Denying it. Bargaining. You know, anger. Boy, that was really something. And then, you know, ultimately, acceptance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bilingualism and disability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Once Max was diagnosed, his pediatrician and speech-language pathologists advised my mom against raising him in a bilingual household. His language development was already delayed, and they argued that adding a second language to the mix would only confuse him and further impede his ability to learn English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d always believed that this was the reason I wasn’t raised bilingual. When people ask me if I speak Japanese, I explain my brother’s diagnosis, and how, when I came along five years after him, it was too complicated for my mom to only speak to one child in Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this past year, I became obsessed with understanding the clinical recommendations my parents received, and sought to find out whether there really are any detriments to raising a child with PWS in a bilingual household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56021_max-and-izzy-2007-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11914782 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56021_max-and-izzy-2007-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl and boy stand in a living room, with a Japanese garment hanging on the wall behind them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56021_max-and-izzy-2007-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56021_max-and-izzy-2007-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56021_max-and-izzy-2007-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56021_max-and-izzy-2007-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56021_max-and-izzy-2007-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56021_max-and-izzy-2007-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Izzy and Max Bloom chat in the living room of their family home in Sebastopol in 2007. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Bloom family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I pored over studies and research papers about the effects of multilingualism on children with autism and Down syndrome and eventually found Estela Garcia Alcaraz’s recent study, the only paper I could find focusing on my brother’s rare syndrome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her study, Garcia Alcaraz, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uib.eu/personal/ABjM4NjgzNw/\">professor of Spanish, modern and classical languages\u003c/a> at the University of Balearic Islands in Spain, investigated how bilingualism affects the \u003ca href=\"https://ruor.uottawa.ca/bitstream/10393/41809/3/Garcia_Alcaraz_Estela_2021_thesis.pdf\">cognitive and linguistic abilities of people with PWS\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"bilingual\"]The participants in her study all had PWS, but some knew only Spanish while others spoke both Spanish and Catalan. Participants were directed to complete a variety of tasks, in an effort to determine how bilingualism affects the executive control, metalinguistic and narrative abilities of people with PWS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our findings not only suggest that individuals with Prader-Willi Syndrome can become bilingual without evidence of negative effects,” Garcia Alcaraz wrote in her study, “but also that they can achieve a similar level of performance, or even outperform monolingual speakers in certain linguistic abilities in Spanish — the non-dominant language for the majority of the bilingual participants. Spanish-Catalan bilinguals showed comparable metalinguistic and narrative abilities in both their languages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, I discovered that there’s no empirical data to support the idea that bilingualism is harmful to language development for children with PWS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which means the story I’ve been telling for most of my life about why I wasn’t raised to speak Japanese is not true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betty Yu, a speech and language professor at San Francisco State University, said research is “pretty conclusive” that bilingualism and multilingualism are assets for children with disabilities, regardless of their diagnoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we started controlling for a lot of different other social factors, the bilingualism has not shown itself to be more taxing, to be interfering,” said Yu, whose \u003ca href=\"https://faculty.sfsu.edu/~bettyyu/\">research focuses on language development\u003c/a> in multilingual children of color with disabilities. “One language doesn’t slow another one down. It doesn’t overwhelm the child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the U.S., what is so interesting is that we are probably the most plurilingual country in the world. We have a lot of languages that are being spoken,” she said. “But it’s also one of the most aggressively ideologically monolingual countries in the world in that we really don’t casually accept that multilingualism is normal and should be preserved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914781\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56020_izzy-and-max-halloween-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11914781 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56020_izzy-and-max-halloween-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl and boy, dressed in Halloween costumes, make funny faces.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56020_izzy-and-max-halloween-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56020_izzy-and-max-halloween-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56020_izzy-and-max-halloween-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56020_izzy-and-max-halloween-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56020_izzy-and-max-halloween-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56020_izzy-and-max-halloween-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Izzy and Max Bloom make silly faces on Halloween in 2007. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Bloom family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speech-language pathologists also are overwhelmingly white: The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.asha.org/siteassets/surveys/2020-member-and-affiliate-profile.pdf\">member demographic was 92% white\u003c/a>, as of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the 1960s, psychologists \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/bilingualism-a-cognitive-advantage-or-disadvantage-for-children/1987/04\">viewed bilingualism as a disability\u003c/a> in any child’s development. The “language handicap” theory, as it was known, can be traced back to anti-immigrant sentiment in the early 1900s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s tied up a lot with views on immigration, on race. Language can’t be divorced from those things,” Yu said. “Bilingualism is often seen as a barrier to the achievement of a norm. So when we’re talking about disability, as something seen as abnormal … those two things sort of mutually enforce each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since the 1960s, Yu said, “waves and waves of data” have confirmed the cognitive, social and cultural benefits of multilingualism for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, a growing body of research is confirming those same findings for children with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Yu said, she continues to hear from parents of kids with disabilities who are advised by their children’s pediatricians and speech-language pathologists against raising their kids in multilingual households.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Communication is more than what we say\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I carefully described these findings to my mom, thinking the information might make her feel somewhat regretful for not raising us to speak Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But instead, she told me that if she were to do it all again, she probably still wouldn’t raise us to be bilingual. At the time, Max’s diagnosis was a big enough challenge to tackle, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if he’s bilingual [if it would make] him so different,” my mom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914779\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56018_family-in-Japan.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11914779 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56018_family-in-Japan-800x1137.jpg\" alt=\"A family — young girl, mom, dad and young boy — pose in a field, with a large mountain in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1137\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56018_family-in-Japan-800x1137.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56018_family-in-Japan-1020x1450.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56018_family-in-Japan-160x227.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56018_family-in-Japan.jpg 1037w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Izzy, Yasuko, Ira and Max Bloom on a family trip to Hiruzen, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, circa 2004. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Bloom family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Max told me he wishes she had taught him Japanese. That’s because, just like when he was a baby, Max is still incredibly social. He calls up our dad’s family on the East Coast almost daily, usually to just tell our grandma what he ate that day. But he can’t call our mom’s family in Japan because he can’t understand them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would [have] made life a lot easier to understand my mom and my dad, so I can talk to my family in Japan,” Max said, adding that he’s confident he would’ve been able to learn Japanese if our mom had taught it to him when he was growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked my mom if the big fear she once had — that her kids wouldn’t really understand her if they weren’t raised with their heritage language — had ever materialized, she said it really hadn’t. What she eventually realized, she explained to me, is that communication is more nuanced than just what we say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, there’s so much more than just speech that is happening when we communicate, like body language, tone and attentive listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the interview with my dad, as he started walking away, he told me that beyond my mom’s ability to speak English relatively well, she has a tenacity to make sure you understand what she’s saying. Even if she has to repeat herself five times and phrase it in different ways, she always makes sure that people hear her, whether it’s in the workplace, with strangers or with us, her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that happens, living in a foreign country with a different language. [I] have to make sure, because I might be wrong,” my mom said in response to my dad. “And I don’t like to do mistake, I don’t like to be misunderstood.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Throughout my life, I’ve fielded the question of whether or not I speak Japanese. It’s my heritage language, because it’s the language my mom speaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But my mom never raised me to speak it. The reason goes back five years before I was born, when my mom was pregnant with my older brother, Max.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Breastfeeding and bilingualism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the time, she made two firm parenting choices for her soon-to-be-born son: to raise him to be bilingual and to breastfeed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom considered breastfeeding the first positive thing she could do for the health of her newborn. But when he was born in 1994, Max wasn’t able to latch or suck. So instead, my mom used a pump to bottle-feed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that time, I thought it [was] because of me,” my mom, Yasuko Bloom, said. English isn’t her first language, so I’ve corrected it here for clarity. “I felt really bad. I felt like I failed at something I really wanted to do for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914783\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56022_Izzy-and-Max_12.22.2001.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11914783 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56022_Izzy-and-Max_12.22.2001-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl and boy sit, giggling, in a basket.\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56022_Izzy-and-Max_12.22.2001-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56022_Izzy-and-Max_12.22.2001-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56022_Izzy-and-Max_12.22.2001-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56022_Izzy-and-Max_12.22.2001-1536x1034.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56022_Izzy-and-Max_12.22.2001.jpg 1772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Izzy (left) and Max Bloom giggling in a basket together, surrounded by their toys, on Dec. 22, 2001. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Bloom family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She suspected there was a connection between Max’s inability to breastfeed and the difficult time she had giving birth to him. His heartbeat had been weak, so the doctor told my mom she’d have to perform an emergency cesarean. Then, when he was born, Max had undescended testicles, a weak cry and poor muscle tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought everything, it should be normal,” my mom said. “But it was very different from the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weak muscle tone turned out to be the reason Max wasn’t able to breastfeed. But when my mom brought her concerns to Max’s pediatrician, he brushed her off and told her that all first-time mothers worry. She recalls him telling her that everything was fine, and Max was a happy baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s true, he was a happy baby, as she recalls. He rarely cried and was a delightfully friendly child who’d go up to strangers and stretch his chubby arms out, asking to be picked up, and melt, at complete ease, in their arms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And once my mom made the switch from formula to regular food, she says Max had no problems eating. In fact, it seemed he would eat anything as a baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could go to a restaurant and order a plate of steamed broccoli,” my dad, Ira Bloom, said. “And he would sit there happily eating the steamed broccoli. And people, you know, their eyes were agog. Who was this kid eating the vegetables?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From disbelief to acceptance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even though my mom’s first nonnegotiable parenting goal fell through, she was still committed to teaching him his heritage language, Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom was born in Japan and met my dad, who’s American and white, in Okayama Prefecture in 1986. At the time, she was working as a fashion designer and my dad was teaching English. Three months after they met, my parents got engaged, moved to the United States and got married, eventually settling in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1907px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56017_family-photo-2005-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11914820 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56017_family-photo-2005-1.jpg\" alt=\"A family - father, mother, young son and young daughter - pose for a photo.\" width=\"1907\" height=\"1693\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56017_family-photo-2005-1.jpg 1907w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56017_family-photo-2005-1-800x710.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56017_family-photo-2005-1-1020x906.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56017_family-photo-2005-1-160x142.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56017_family-photo-2005-1-1536x1364.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1907px) 100vw, 1907px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ira, Yasuko, Izzy and Max Bloom on a family trip to northern Okayama Prefecture in Japan, circa 2005. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Bloom family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Raising her children to be bilingual felt really important to my mom because she worried her kids wouldn’t understand her, not only linguistically, but she also feared we would never really know her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did worry about if my kids didn’t understand Japanese, maybe [they’d] never really get to know me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for the first three years of Max’s life, my mom spoke to him exclusively in Japanese. She fondly remembers carrying Max while walking through the house singing Japanese lullabies. Meanwhile, my dad spoke to him only in English, so Max could learn both languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Max wasn’t really picking up either language. In fact, he wasn’t hitting any of the development milestones my parents expected to see: sitting upright, crawling, babbling, walking and talking. And when my mom started taking Max to day care, the differences between him and the other kids his age became glaringly obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She insisted that Max get genetically tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1997, at the age of 3, Max was diagnosed with a \u003ca href=\"https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/prader-willi-syndrome/#:~:text=Prader%2DWilli%20syndrome%20(PWS),growth%20and%20other%20hormone%20deficiency.\">rare genetic disorder called Prader-Willi Syndrome\u003c/a>, or PWS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though he was delayed, I never expected that something is really totally wrong to carry on into his life,” my mom said. “I was expecting something wrong but, you know, maybe a little delay. But he would catch up at some point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But everything my mom read about the disorder only heightened her concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The scary thing was reading the articles, and I was scared of the future,” she said. “What kind of future [is] waiting for him? For us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most distinct symptom for people with PWS is hyperphagia, an unabating hunger and unrelenting, compulsive urge to consume food. They can also have physical challenges like a lack of muscle tone, stunted growth and poor motor skills, as well as cognitive deficits and profound learning disabilities. Many develop diabetes and life-threatening obesity, struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder and attention-deficit issues, and can become aggressive in their pursuit of food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were devastated, went through the grieving process,” my dad said of getting Max’s diagnosis. “I remember everything. Being angry. Denying it. Bargaining. You know, anger. Boy, that was really something. And then, you know, ultimately, acceptance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bilingualism and disability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Once Max was diagnosed, his pediatrician and speech-language pathologists advised my mom against raising him in a bilingual household. His language development was already delayed, and they argued that adding a second language to the mix would only confuse him and further impede his ability to learn English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d always believed that this was the reason I wasn’t raised bilingual. When people ask me if I speak Japanese, I explain my brother’s diagnosis, and how, when I came along five years after him, it was too complicated for my mom to only speak to one child in Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this past year, I became obsessed with understanding the clinical recommendations my parents received, and sought to find out whether there really are any detriments to raising a child with PWS in a bilingual household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56021_max-and-izzy-2007-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11914782 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56021_max-and-izzy-2007-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl and boy stand in a living room, with a Japanese garment hanging on the wall behind them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56021_max-and-izzy-2007-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56021_max-and-izzy-2007-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56021_max-and-izzy-2007-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56021_max-and-izzy-2007-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56021_max-and-izzy-2007-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56021_max-and-izzy-2007-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Izzy and Max Bloom chat in the living room of their family home in Sebastopol in 2007. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Bloom family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I pored over studies and research papers about the effects of multilingualism on children with autism and Down syndrome and eventually found Estela Garcia Alcaraz’s recent study, the only paper I could find focusing on my brother’s rare syndrome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her study, Garcia Alcaraz, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uib.eu/personal/ABjM4NjgzNw/\">professor of Spanish, modern and classical languages\u003c/a> at the University of Balearic Islands in Spain, investigated how bilingualism affects the \u003ca href=\"https://ruor.uottawa.ca/bitstream/10393/41809/3/Garcia_Alcaraz_Estela_2021_thesis.pdf\">cognitive and linguistic abilities of people with PWS\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The participants in her study all had PWS, but some knew only Spanish while others spoke both Spanish and Catalan. Participants were directed to complete a variety of tasks, in an effort to determine how bilingualism affects the executive control, metalinguistic and narrative abilities of people with PWS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our findings not only suggest that individuals with Prader-Willi Syndrome can become bilingual without evidence of negative effects,” Garcia Alcaraz wrote in her study, “but also that they can achieve a similar level of performance, or even outperform monolingual speakers in certain linguistic abilities in Spanish — the non-dominant language for the majority of the bilingual participants. Spanish-Catalan bilinguals showed comparable metalinguistic and narrative abilities in both their languages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, I discovered that there’s no empirical data to support the idea that bilingualism is harmful to language development for children with PWS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which means the story I’ve been telling for most of my life about why I wasn’t raised to speak Japanese is not true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betty Yu, a speech and language professor at San Francisco State University, said research is “pretty conclusive” that bilingualism and multilingualism are assets for children with disabilities, regardless of their diagnoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we started controlling for a lot of different other social factors, the bilingualism has not shown itself to be more taxing, to be interfering,” said Yu, whose \u003ca href=\"https://faculty.sfsu.edu/~bettyyu/\">research focuses on language development\u003c/a> in multilingual children of color with disabilities. “One language doesn’t slow another one down. It doesn’t overwhelm the child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the U.S., what is so interesting is that we are probably the most plurilingual country in the world. We have a lot of languages that are being spoken,” she said. “But it’s also one of the most aggressively ideologically monolingual countries in the world in that we really don’t casually accept that multilingualism is normal and should be preserved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914781\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56020_izzy-and-max-halloween-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11914781 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56020_izzy-and-max-halloween-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl and boy, dressed in Halloween costumes, make funny faces.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56020_izzy-and-max-halloween-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56020_izzy-and-max-halloween-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56020_izzy-and-max-halloween-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56020_izzy-and-max-halloween-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56020_izzy-and-max-halloween-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56020_izzy-and-max-halloween-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Izzy and Max Bloom make silly faces on Halloween in 2007. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Bloom family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speech-language pathologists also are overwhelmingly white: The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.asha.org/siteassets/surveys/2020-member-and-affiliate-profile.pdf\">member demographic was 92% white\u003c/a>, as of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the 1960s, psychologists \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/bilingualism-a-cognitive-advantage-or-disadvantage-for-children/1987/04\">viewed bilingualism as a disability\u003c/a> in any child’s development. The “language handicap” theory, as it was known, can be traced back to anti-immigrant sentiment in the early 1900s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s tied up a lot with views on immigration, on race. Language can’t be divorced from those things,” Yu said. “Bilingualism is often seen as a barrier to the achievement of a norm. So when we’re talking about disability, as something seen as abnormal … those two things sort of mutually enforce each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since the 1960s, Yu said, “waves and waves of data” have confirmed the cognitive, social and cultural benefits of multilingualism for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, a growing body of research is confirming those same findings for children with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Yu said, she continues to hear from parents of kids with disabilities who are advised by their children’s pediatricians and speech-language pathologists against raising their kids in multilingual households.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Communication is more than what we say\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I carefully described these findings to my mom, thinking the information might make her feel somewhat regretful for not raising us to speak Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But instead, she told me that if she were to do it all again, she probably still wouldn’t raise us to be bilingual. At the time, Max’s diagnosis was a big enough challenge to tackle, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if he’s bilingual [if it would make] him so different,” my mom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914779\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56018_family-in-Japan.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11914779 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56018_family-in-Japan-800x1137.jpg\" alt=\"A family — young girl, mom, dad and young boy — pose in a field, with a large mountain in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1137\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56018_family-in-Japan-800x1137.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56018_family-in-Japan-1020x1450.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56018_family-in-Japan-160x227.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS56018_family-in-Japan.jpg 1037w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Izzy, Yasuko, Ira and Max Bloom on a family trip to Hiruzen, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, circa 2004. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Bloom family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Max told me he wishes she had taught him Japanese. That’s because, just like when he was a baby, Max is still incredibly social. He calls up our dad’s family on the East Coast almost daily, usually to just tell our grandma what he ate that day. But he can’t call our mom’s family in Japan because he can’t understand them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would [have] made life a lot easier to understand my mom and my dad, so I can talk to my family in Japan,” Max said, adding that he’s confident he would’ve been able to learn Japanese if our mom had taught it to him when he was growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked my mom if the big fear she once had — that her kids wouldn’t really understand her if they weren’t raised with their heritage language — had ever materialized, she said it really hadn’t. What she eventually realized, she explained to me, is that communication is more nuanced than just what we say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, there’s so much more than just speech that is happening when we communicate, like body language, tone and attentive listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the interview with my dad, as he started walking away, he told me that beyond my mom’s ability to speak English relatively well, she has a tenacity to make sure you understand what she’s saying. Even if she has to repeat herself five times and phrase it in different ways, she always makes sure that people hear her, whether it’s in the workplace, with strangers or with us, her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Saturday marks day six of what labor leaders are calling the largest strike in the history of U.S. higher education. Nearly 48,000 University of California academic workers — including graduate students, post-docs and researchers across the university’s 10 campuses — walked off the job Nov. 14 to demand better pay and benefits and an end to what they describe as unfair negotiating tactics by the UC. The strike has disrupted instruction across the university system, just weeks ahead of final exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University leaders say they have bargained in good faith and that they have made generous offers. On Wednesday afternoon, one UC senior leader also warned that certain union demands were financially unfeasible for the university to consider.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why are academic workers striking?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The majority of UC graduate students spend more than a third of their income on rent, according to a union survey, with an average income of around $24,000 a year — hardly enough to make ends meet in cities like Berkeley, Los Angeles or San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators are demanding a minimum annual salary of $54,000 for graduate workers and $70,000 for postdoctoral workers, and a 14% pay bump for academic researchers, which they say would reflect the cost-of-living increase in the state. The union is also pushing UC to offer child care subsidies, better health care for dependents, public-transit passes, better accessibility for workers with disabilities and lower tuition costs for international scholars.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11932147,news_11932471,forum_2010101891301\"]Neal Sweeney, a postdoctoral scholar in molecular biology at UC Santa Cruz, is the president of UAW 5810, the union that represents postdocs and academic researchers. But up until taking his union position, said Sweeney, he and his family were struggling to get by while he was working between 50 and 60 hours each week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The salary was so low that every month I really had to think about if I would make it through that month,” Sweeney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891301/48000-academic-workers-strike-across-university-of-california-campuse\">told KQED Forum\u003c/a>. “Just getting coffee — I had to think about every single expense. I had two small children. My partner was a full-time student. We lived in campus family housing, and we went to the campus food bank every month due to make sure we had food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, he notes, “My research was bringing in millions of dollars in funding for the university.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among teaching assistants and other academic student employees — who are represented by a different local, UAW 2865 — it’s not uncommon to hear stories of graduate students resorting to three or more jobs, or even experiencing homelessness, said Sweeney, pointing to a UCLA teaching assistant, Bernard Rumley, who lived out of his car for the 2018-19 academic year. A doctoral student at UC Riverside, Jacob Kemner, supplements his $28,000 annual salary with twice-weekly blood plasma donations for an extra $200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators are also protesting what they’ve called unfair bargaining tactics by the university over the course of negotiations, which began in the spring of 2021. UAW has filed at least 25 unfair labor practice claims against the university with California’s Public Employment Relations Board, and the board has issued complaints in six cases, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-14/university-of-california-strike-academic-workers-graduate-students\">The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>. The university has denied these allegations.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How has the university responded?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In negotiations, the university has \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/UAW#offers\">offered academic workers a $2,500 reimbursement for child care\u003c/a>, expanded parental leave, a pre-tax commuter benefit and multiyear pay increases that vary per bargaining unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23309878-provostletter\">system’s 10 chancellors (PDF)\u003c/a>, released Wednesday, UC Provost Michael T. Brown said “I respect their choice” to strike, and acknowledged the “significant challenge” that California’s soaring housing costs create for students and employees. But he said that the union demand to tie compensation to housing costs “could have overwhelming financial impacts on the University.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letitia Silas, executive director of systemwide labor relations for UC’s Office of the President, echoed that on KQED Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in negotiations and we will proceed as we have for the last year in good faith. [But] we talk about housing and tying wages to rental rates, that is very dangerous,” she said. “That could have an overwhelming financial impact on the university … as you know, the UC does not control rental rates for non-UC housing, and the UC can’t predict nor responsibly budget for such subsidies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11932491 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM-800x494.png\" alt='A variety of smiling, mostly young, multiethnic people wearing casual clothing march in a line holding white and blue signs affixed to wooden poles that say \"UAW On Strike, Unfair Labor Practice,\" along a city sidewalk in the dappled shade of large trees.' width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM-800x494.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM-1020x630.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM-160x99.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM.png 1176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers form a picket line at UC Berkeley on Nov. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Tying wages to rental rates could have the unintended consequence of subsidizing private landlords and companies and further exacerbating rental costs for other Californians,” she said. “So we’re mindful of all these factors as we have continued to propose fair wage increases for these employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silas also emphasized that many teaching assistants are working part-time, at 20 hours per week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter, Brown pushed back against the demand to waive out-of-state tuition for international scholars. “If we were to provide remission of out-of state supplemental tuition, non-California student employees would in effect receive a larger compensation package than California resident student employees for doing the same work,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown noted that the university’s offer of multiyear pay raises includes up to 10% increases within the first year of employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those raises fall far short of the increases the union is pushing for. Organizers argue their demands are essential for academic workers to earn a living wage, and would total no more than 3% of UC’s entire $44 billion budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the money that we need to be able to address the cost of living and housing in California,” said Sweeney.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How have undergraduate students been affected?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC officials have told students they should plan to continue attending their classes, but warned that some could be canceled depending on how many people participate in the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Department chairs and faculty will work together to ensure the least amount of disruption to the delivery of instruction and grading, as well as research,” UC Berkeley wrote in an email to its students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On some campuses, students joined in solidarity. Lex Von Klark, a 22-year-old political science student at UCLA, was among several hundred people on campus holding signs and participating in the picket line on Monday, the first day of the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am out here primarily because these people are my teachers, and their working conditions are my learning conditions,” he said. “Basically, if my teachers are getting paid less than a living wage and have to work multiple jobs, it makes it hard for me to get a high-end education.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"John Logan, director, Labor and Employment Studies department, SFSU\"]‘I think there’s going to be tremendous pressure from a whole variety of quarters on university administration to get serious and to resume bargaining in good faith and to come to an agreement that’s acceptable to both parties.’[/pullquote]At UC Davis, some undergraduates appeared to have mixed feelings about the strike, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932471/uc-undergraduate-students-divided-in-reaction-to-strike\">according to EdSource\u003c/a>, but many were supportive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solan Castro, a first-year undergraduate studying public health and molecular cell biology, joined the picket line on Wednesday instead of attending class. He said that even with finals coming up, he’s not worried about how the strike might affect his grades. “A lot of professors have opened up more office hours, also in solidarity with the graduate student instructors,” he said, noting that he believes graduate student teaching assistants are often key to undergraduates’ success.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is this part of a wider trend?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The UC academic workers’ strike comes on the heels of a surge of high-profile labor actions and union organizing this year, both in California and across the country, as demand for workers in multiple industries has spiked. In recent months, the Bay Area has been a hotbed of labor activism, particularly among nurses and other health care workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to John Logan, director of the Labor and Employment Studies department at San Francisco State University, it’s part of a groundswell of organizing in education as well. “I think it’s important to understand that this is part of a national trend that’s been happening for a number of decades now,” Logan told KQED Forum, noting that unionization began at Berkeley in the 1980s, but the union only began bargaining in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Obama administration, the National Labor Relations Board in 2016 allowed private university graduate students to organize as well, leading to unions in recent years at Harvard, M.I.T., Columbia, New York University, Brown University, Georgetown, the University of Chicago and Boston University, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we’re now talking about upwards of 100,000 unionized graduate students, employees throughout the country. And the issues, quite frankly, are similar,” said Logan. “I think they’re more severe in California because of the astronomical living costs and particularly the housing costs … and so [there’s a] huge gulf that exists between what the university is offering in terms of pay and other benefits and what the graduate students say is necessary for absolute basic quality of life and livable wage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If over 90% of graduate student employees are paying more than 30% of their income on housing costs, it’s simply not sustainable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Negotiations are expected to continue between the UC and the union over the coming week. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Saturday marks day six of what labor leaders are calling the largest strike in the history of U.S. higher education. Nearly 48,000 University of California academic workers — including graduate students, post-docs and researchers across the university’s 10 campuses — walked off the job Nov. 14 to demand better pay and benefits and an end to what they describe as unfair negotiating tactics by the UC. The strike has disrupted instruction across the university system, just weeks ahead of final exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University leaders say they have bargained in good faith and that they have made generous offers. On Wednesday afternoon, one UC senior leader also warned that certain union demands were financially unfeasible for the university to consider.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why are academic workers striking?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The majority of UC graduate students spend more than a third of their income on rent, according to a union survey, with an average income of around $24,000 a year — hardly enough to make ends meet in cities like Berkeley, Los Angeles or San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators are demanding a minimum annual salary of $54,000 for graduate workers and $70,000 for postdoctoral workers, and a 14% pay bump for academic researchers, which they say would reflect the cost-of-living increase in the state. The union is also pushing UC to offer child care subsidies, better health care for dependents, public-transit passes, better accessibility for workers with disabilities and lower tuition costs for international scholars.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Neal Sweeney, a postdoctoral scholar in molecular biology at UC Santa Cruz, is the president of UAW 5810, the union that represents postdocs and academic researchers. But up until taking his union position, said Sweeney, he and his family were struggling to get by while he was working between 50 and 60 hours each week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The salary was so low that every month I really had to think about if I would make it through that month,” Sweeney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891301/48000-academic-workers-strike-across-university-of-california-campuse\">told KQED Forum\u003c/a>. “Just getting coffee — I had to think about every single expense. I had two small children. My partner was a full-time student. We lived in campus family housing, and we went to the campus food bank every month due to make sure we had food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, he notes, “My research was bringing in millions of dollars in funding for the university.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among teaching assistants and other academic student employees — who are represented by a different local, UAW 2865 — it’s not uncommon to hear stories of graduate students resorting to three or more jobs, or even experiencing homelessness, said Sweeney, pointing to a UCLA teaching assistant, Bernard Rumley, who lived out of his car for the 2018-19 academic year. A doctoral student at UC Riverside, Jacob Kemner, supplements his $28,000 annual salary with twice-weekly blood plasma donations for an extra $200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators are also protesting what they’ve called unfair bargaining tactics by the university over the course of negotiations, which began in the spring of 2021. UAW has filed at least 25 unfair labor practice claims against the university with California’s Public Employment Relations Board, and the board has issued complaints in six cases, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-14/university-of-california-strike-academic-workers-graduate-students\">The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>. The university has denied these allegations.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How has the university responded?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In negotiations, the university has \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/UAW#offers\">offered academic workers a $2,500 reimbursement for child care\u003c/a>, expanded parental leave, a pre-tax commuter benefit and multiyear pay increases that vary per bargaining unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23309878-provostletter\">system’s 10 chancellors (PDF)\u003c/a>, released Wednesday, UC Provost Michael T. Brown said “I respect their choice” to strike, and acknowledged the “significant challenge” that California’s soaring housing costs create for students and employees. But he said that the union demand to tie compensation to housing costs “could have overwhelming financial impacts on the University.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letitia Silas, executive director of systemwide labor relations for UC’s Office of the President, echoed that on KQED Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in negotiations and we will proceed as we have for the last year in good faith. [But] we talk about housing and tying wages to rental rates, that is very dangerous,” she said. “That could have an overwhelming financial impact on the university … as you know, the UC does not control rental rates for non-UC housing, and the UC can’t predict nor responsibly budget for such subsidies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11932491 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM-800x494.png\" alt='A variety of smiling, mostly young, multiethnic people wearing casual clothing march in a line holding white and blue signs affixed to wooden poles that say \"UAW On Strike, Unfair Labor Practice,\" along a city sidewalk in the dappled shade of large trees.' width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM-800x494.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM-1020x630.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM-160x99.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-16-at-2.44.42-PM.png 1176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers form a picket line at UC Berkeley on Nov. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Tying wages to rental rates could have the unintended consequence of subsidizing private landlords and companies and further exacerbating rental costs for other Californians,” she said. “So we’re mindful of all these factors as we have continued to propose fair wage increases for these employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silas also emphasized that many teaching assistants are working part-time, at 20 hours per week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter, Brown pushed back against the demand to waive out-of-state tuition for international scholars. “If we were to provide remission of out-of state supplemental tuition, non-California student employees would in effect receive a larger compensation package than California resident student employees for doing the same work,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown noted that the university’s offer of multiyear pay raises includes up to 10% increases within the first year of employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those raises fall far short of the increases the union is pushing for. Organizers argue their demands are essential for academic workers to earn a living wage, and would total no more than 3% of UC’s entire $44 billion budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the money that we need to be able to address the cost of living and housing in California,” said Sweeney.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How have undergraduate students been affected?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC officials have told students they should plan to continue attending their classes, but warned that some could be canceled depending on how many people participate in the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Department chairs and faculty will work together to ensure the least amount of disruption to the delivery of instruction and grading, as well as research,” UC Berkeley wrote in an email to its students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On some campuses, students joined in solidarity. 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Brown said, “I respect their choice” to strike, and acknowledged the “significant challenge” that California’s soaring housing costs create for students and employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said that the union demand to tie compensation to housing costs “could have overwhelming financial impacts on the University.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One review of the Union’s proposal predicts an annual unfunded obligation of at least several hundred million dollars, with inflationary pressure and no cap,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown also pushed back against the demand to waive out-of-state tuition for international scholars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we were to provide remission of out-of state supplemental tuition, non-California student employees would in effect receive a larger compensation package than California resident student employees for doing the same work,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown noted that the university is offering academic workers multiyear pay raises — including up to 10% increases within the first year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that is far short of the 100% increases the union is pushing for. Organizers argue their demands are essential for academic workers to earn a living wage, and would total no more than 3% of UC’s entire $44 billion budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the money that we need to be able to address the cost of living and housing in California,” said Neal Sweeney, president of United Auto Workers Local 5810, which represents postdoctoral instructors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Academic workers have long been underpaid and undervalued, he added, noting that “our work brings in about $5 billion in research grants each year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the California Labor Federation, which sanctioned the strike, called on guest speakers and elected officials to cancel scheduled events at UC campuses until a fair agreement is reached. But organizers stopped short of asking students to boycott classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 1 p.m. Monday: \u003c/strong>Nearly 48,000 University of California academic workers across the 10-campus system walked off the job Monday, demanding better pay and benefits in what organizers are calling the largest strike in the history of U.S. higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike by researchers, postdoctoral scholars, tutors, teaching assistants and graders – including scores of workers at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – threatens to disrupt instruction across the university system, just weeks ahead of final exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At campuses across the state, picket lines went up at 8 a.m., with workers — represented by various local chapters of the United Auto Workers — insisting they need significant pay raises to afford to live in cities like Los Angeles, San Diego and Berkeley, where housing and other living costs have soared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Extremely low compensation — many workers make less than $24,000 a year — is leaving workers severely rent-burdened and struggling to remain in academia,” Rafael Jaime, president of United Auto Workers 2865, which represents some 19,000 academic workers involved in the strike, said earlier this month. “UC’s failure to support a diverse workforce undermines the quality of research and education across the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contract talks produced “good progress” on Monday, but UC negotiators subsequently informed the union that they wouldn’t resume bargaining until Wednesday, according to Jaime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Workers are really frustrated by the slow process so far,” he said while demonstrating at UCLA, where he’s a teaching assistant. “They’re willing to be out here for as long as it takes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/only_tanz/status/1592271003211948033\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fairucnow.org/cola/\">Demonstrators are demanding\u003c/a> a minimum annual salary of $54,000 for graduate workers and $70,000 for postdoctoral workers, and a 14% pay bump for academic researchers. The union is also pushing UC to offer child-care subsidies, better health care for dependents, public-transit passes, better accessibility for workers with disabilities and lower tuition costs for international scholars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pê Feijó, a graduate student instructor in UC Berkeley’s Rhetoric Department, was among the throng of academic workers who walked off the job Monday morning. Feijó said about 75% of the $26,000 a year they earn goes toward rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just and not fair. It’s completely absurd,” Feijó said. “The amount of stress and pressure that we are under is ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feijo also has to pay thousands of dollars each year in nonresident fees, an extra burden that union negotiators are seeking to reduce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932309\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932309\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with a baby strapped to her chest holds a sign that says: 'Our working conditions = their learning conditions"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0145-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anaya Hall, a graduate student instructor at UC Berkeley, brought her baby Mazie to the picket line on the west side of campus Monday. \u003ccite>(Jean Zamora/UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are not just here in a symbolic demonstration,” Feijó said. “We are really intended on disrupting this university until the administration is forced to recognize how much they depend on us and our labor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike comes amid a surge of labor actions and union organizing this year, both in California and across the country, as demand for workers in multiple industries has spiked. In recent months, the Bay Area has been a hotbed of labor activism, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/nurses-strike\">particularly among nurses\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929713/kaiser-mental-health-workers-appove-new-contract-ending-10-week-strike\">other health care workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/UAW\">UC officials said they had entered the talks with a “genuine willingness to compromise,”\u003c/a> adding that “many tentative agreements” on issues such as health and safety had been reached.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11931122,news_11801554,forum_2010101876230\"]“UC’s primary goal in these negotiations is multiyear agreements that recognize these employees’ important and highly valued contributions to UC’s teaching and research mission with fair pay, quality health and family-friendly benefits, and a supportive and respectful work environment,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC also said it had offered multiyear wage increases, ranging from 4% to 26%, depending on the bargaining unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Neal Sweeney, president of UAW 5810, which represents more than 11,000 postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers, said negotiations had dragged on for more than a year, and accused UC officials of failing to bargain in good faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC has left us no choice but to escalate our campaigns,” he said, earlier this month. “Rather than coming to fair agreements, the university has engaged in a wide variety of unlawful tactics. The UAW locals at UC have been forced to file more than 20 unfair labor practices to address their refusal to provide the information we need to bargain unilateral changes to our working conditions and more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fairucnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CA-Leg-Letter.pdf\">a group of 33 state lawmakers sent a letter in support of the academic workers\u003c/a>, urging UC President Michael Drake “to avert strikes by ceasing to commit unfair labor practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The UC is one of the top public university systems and research institutions in the world, in no small part because of its ability to attract the most talented scholars from a wide array of backgrounds,” the letter reads. “But the UC system cannot live up to its mission and reputation if its own employees do not feel respected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC officials told students they should plan to continue attending their classes, but warned that some could be canceled depending on how many people participated in the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Department chairs and faculty will work together to ensure the least amount of disruption to the delivery of instruction and grading, as well as research,” UC Berkeley wrote in an email to its students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932391\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932391\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"People holding signs demonstrate on a sidewalk, near a UCSF bus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60144_010_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers demonstrate at the UCSF Mission Bay campus on Nov. 15, 2022, the second day of an open-ended strike among nearly 48,000 academic employees across all 10 University of California campuses. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators were out in force Monday at UC’s 10 campuses across the state, which are attended by some 300,000 students. On some campuses, students joined in solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lex Von Klark, a 22-year-old political science student at UCLA, was among several hundred people on campus holding signs and participating in the picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am out here primarily because these people are my teachers, and their working conditions are my learning conditions,” he said. “Basically, if my teachers are getting paid less than a living wage and have to work multiple jobs, it makes it hard for me to get a high-end education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even at UC Merced, the system’s newest campus, which is located in one of California’s most affordable regions, academic workers on the picket line said inflation and the rising costs of rent make it tough to get by on their low salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It used to be very cheap to rent apartments here, and now it’s not that way anymore,” said Albert Dibenedetto, a graduate student in the school’s physics department, who makes just over $30,000 as teaching assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at UC Berkeley, Mariagrazia De Luca, a doctoral student in the Italian Studies program, makes only slightly more than that, despite living in one of the most expensive parts of the state. Her $34,000 salary, she said, is not nearly enough to cover her rent and the rising child care expenses she has to pay for her only child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would love to have a second one, but I’m a little bit scared and concerned about the financial burden, so we stick with one,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press, KQED’s Julia McEvoy and KVPR’s Esther Quintanilla.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Thomas Gruver, 16, was well into his freshman year at \u003ca href=\"https://nevadaunion.njuhsd.com/\">Nevada Union High School\u003c/a> when he hit his limit. His school of some 1,500 students, in the mountain town of Grass Valley, in Nevada County outside Sacramento, is 80% white. Gruver identifies as Afro-Latino and white, and he said that, from the beginning of ninth grade, he was getting racist comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a student say, ‘Let’s lynch Tommy.’ I had a lot of other friends have things said to them. I witnessed a lot of things, too. Kids that were LGBTQ+ getting rocks thrown at them at lunch, things like that,” Gruver recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11913501,news_11922072\"]Another Nevada Union student, McKinley Nguyen, also 16, said she had anti-Asian slurs thrown at her throughout middle school, but it wasn’t until she was at Nevada Union that she felt compelled to speak up — after seeing one of her peers scream the N-word at a Black student in the hallway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinley said that after she and several other students reported the incident to school staff, nothing happened. “No one really blamed the person that did it,” said McKinley. “A lot of people didn’t really think it was either that big of a deal or they didn’t believe that it happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Kelly Rhoden said she couldn’t comment on the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/McKinley-Nguyen-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/McKinley-Nguyen-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman with black hair stands for a portrait in front of a potted plant\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/McKinley-Nguyen-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/McKinley-Nguyen-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/McKinley-Nguyen-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/McKinley-Nguyen-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/McKinley-Nguyen-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/McKinley-Nguyen-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McKinley Nguyen, a high school senior living in Grass Valley, helped convince her principal to mandate anti-bias trainings for all Nevada Union staff. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was events like these that led Nevada Union High students to begin organizing in the school library during their “flex time,” to demand school officials hold offending students accountable for racist and homophobic bullying and harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next two years, that experience would lead them toward a political awakening, one that would eventually focus their activism on trying to defeat conservative school board trustee candidates in the November 8 election. Students say they are working to help elect candidates they hope will take racist and anti-LGBTQ+ behavior more seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘That is not a 15-year-old’s job’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Anthony Pritchett, now 18 years old, was a senior at Nevada Union last year. Pritchett took action by getting himself elected as student trustee on the school board, in order to have an official voice in bringing the harassment issues directly to the school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pritchett, who is Filipino and white, said his frustration had built over four years of experiencing multiple racist comments. He reached his limit after a peer approached him with a noose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone tied a noose for me at lunch and gave it to me,” Pritchett said. “I was just hanging out with my friends at school, at lunch. It was in an almost casual manner, too. Just like, ‘Oh, here’s a noose, man, like, how funny this is.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59812_002_KQED_AnthonyPritchettGrassValley_11042022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59812_002_KQED_AnthonyPritchettGrassValley_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a young man sits on a concrete bench on a college campus\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59812_002_KQED_AnthonyPritchettGrassValley_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59812_002_KQED_AnthonyPritchettGrassValley_11042022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59812_002_KQED_AnthonyPritchettGrassValley_11042022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59812_002_KQED_AnthonyPritchettGrassValley_11042022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59812_002_KQED_AnthonyPritchettGrassValley_11042022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Pritchett sits outside his dorm at the University of California, Berkeley on Nov. 4, 2022. As a student at Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley, Pritchett got elected student trustee on the school board after experiencing racist comments from peers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pritchett said this form of racism is “insidious and stealthy” because the offenders afterward typically deny they meant any harm, or say they didn’t understand the meaning of what they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people don’t understand that racism isn’t just a bunch of rednecks getting in some white hoods and lynching people. Yeah, that’s racist, but that’s not what racism is now. It’s completely evolved,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Marlee Anderson, former Nevada Union student\"]‘[Principal Kelly Rhoden] made me explain to [another student] racism and how being called slurs felt … that’s not why I’m here. I’m here to learn.’[/pullquote]Students of color at the school say that, in many cases, school officials failed to take their complaints seriously — and that when they did, \u003cem>both\u003c/em> parties often were brought into the school offices, and made to apologize to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Marlee Anderson, who is Black, said happened to her during freshman year. After she heard a classmate directing homophobic slurs at peers, she intervened, and then that classmate called Anderson the N-word, she said. Principal Kelly Rhoden called Anderson into the office along with the offending student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She made me explain how I felt, which was OK. But then she was like, ‘Explain to him how the N-word makes you feel,’ and made me explain to him racism and how being called slurs felt,” Anderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I, when she said that, I was completely blown away because … that is not a 15-year-old’s job to do, who just got in this huge argument with this kid who’s being racist and homophobic towards her. Like … that’s not why I’m here. I’m here to learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlee’s parents said they emailed Rhoden several times to object to what happened, but never heard back from her. Shortly after, they moved their daughter out of the district entirely, to a more diverse school closer to Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Library-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Library-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"the exterior of a high school library\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Library-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Library-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Library-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Library-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Library-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Library-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevada Union High students began organizing in the library, and took several steps to try to get school officials to hold their peers accountable for racist and homophobic bullying and harassment on campus. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Principal Rhoden said she couldn’t comment on that incident either, but she said calling in both the alleged offender and the student who complained for restorative practices is something she’s stopped doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all need to learn. It goes for the adults just as much as it goes for the kids,” Rhoden said. “We have restorative practices within our school that we use all the time. We do restorative circles. We’re doing more and more training with that, which is great. That doesn’t always work when it’s a racial issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhoden said that after Thomas Gruver complained that one of her staff members who had been called in to mediate a racist incident told Gruver he would have to “deal with” it, she took action, mandating anti-bias training for all staff. She said the casual use of the N-word in the hallways has since declined, and Gruver agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, students met with the district, demanding it implement and publicize a strengthened anti-bullying policy whose language included clear consequences — not just for overt harassment, but also for microaggressions. The district responded by launching a Race, Equity and Inclusion Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that caught the eye of Nevada County conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A history of racism in Grass Valley\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nevada County is one the six whitest counties in California. Grass Valley was historically a mining and logging town, and also reportedly a sundown town until the 1960s, meaning that if you were Black, you were not allowed in Grass Valley after dark. In the 1870s, Grass Valley ran its Chinese residents out of town. In nearby Nevada City, Chinatown was burned in 1880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past decade, according to census figures, the county population has shifted to become slightly less non-Hispanic white, declining from 86.5% in 2010 to 81.0% by 2020. That slow increase in diversity is reflected at the high school, too: From 2017 to 2021, the white population at Nevada Union dropped from 81.2% to 73.6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Nevada-Union-High-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931388\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Nevada-Union-High-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"students walk in a high school\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Nevada-Union-High-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Nevada-Union-High-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Nevada-Union-High-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Nevada-Union-High-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Nevada-Union-High-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Nevada-Union-High-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The student body in Nevada Union High, in Grass Valley, is 80% white. School officials say the daily, casual use of the N-word in halls and classrooms has dropped significantly this year, thanks to students of color speaking up about racist harassment on campus. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of this underscores the need for ethnic studies to be taught at Nevada Union, says physics and chemistry teacher Eric Mayer. “They need it now. So that’s another thing that’s at stake with this board,” Mayer said. “Are we going to have a progressive ethnic studies that addresses these issues that students in our society now face? Or are we going to have something that just checks the box?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer said that talk of how to teach ethnic studies has become a political “third rail” in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter a group of people, led by Grass Valley resident Judy Wood, calling itself “Protecting American Ideals.” Wood and other members began showing up at board meetings to argue against diversity, equity and inclusion measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Equity divides people by race, and ensures race-based equality of outcomes. It encourages discrimination to get there,” Wood told the board at a raucous meeting last November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 400 people showed up, with American flag-waving folks on one side and anti-racist students and their supporters on the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was genuinely terrifying,” said Pritchett, recalling how it felt to be seated with other board trustees in the center of the tension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had our two vice principals at our school there, these two larger men, and they had to escort people away from us a couple of times when things got very tense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Eric-Mayer-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931392\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Eric-Mayer-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a white man with a grey beard and glasses in a pink shirt smiles at the camera\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Eric-Mayer-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Eric-Mayer-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Eric-Mayer-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Eric-Mayer-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Eric-Mayer-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Eric-Mayer-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevada Union physics and chemistry teacher Eric Mayer wants ethnic studies taught now, and thinks it can help curtail student racist behavior on campuses. He says the discussion around ethnic studies is the ‘third rail’ that has rallied local conservatives. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the heated meeting, Wood falsely accused the district and school board trustees of allowing critical race theory, an academic theory that argues that systemic racism is part of American society, to be taught in Nevada Joint Union High School District schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board explained that it allowed a presentation about it so it could “hear the other side.” Student organizers and their supporters were furious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At subsequent board meetings, Gruver and other students spoke up during public comment, pleading with the board to acknowledge their experiences and do something to make district high schools safer for kids of color and LGBTQ+ students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, the board rejected the students’ proposed anti-bullying policy change, objecting to the inclusion of consequences for racist and homophobic bullying. Pritchett said it felt like a punch in the gut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people felt a lot of defeat,” he said. “People felt there’s a lot of hope lost. It’s like, where do we go from here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was at this point that the November 8 election for NJUHSD board trustees suddenly took on significance for student organizers, said Pritchett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These elections really do bring some of that hope back,” said Pritchett. “Because now we have a chance to put people that will listen into a position of power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pritchett’s mom, Olivia, was so disturbed by the board’s inaction that she decided to run for trustee. So did another parent, Wendy Willoughby, and a former teacher, Ken Johnson. All three candidates held a student listening session and assured students that, if they got elected, student voices would be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/lawn-signs-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/lawn-signs-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"signs for political candidates on a lawn\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/lawn-signs-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/lawn-signs-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/lawn-signs-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/lawn-signs-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/lawn-signs-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/lawn-signs-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The school board trustee election has fired up Grass Valley students hoping to defeat candidates supported by local group Protecting American Ideals, including Stephanie Leishman, granddaughter of the late ultraconservative US senator from Utah, Orrin Hatch. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their opponents are backed by the Protecting American Ideals group. Stephanie Leishman, a granddaughter of the late ultraconservative U.S. senator from Utah, Orrin Hatch, is running for trustee, along with Jay Adamson, son of current board member Pat Seeley, a board trustee who rejected the students’ stronger anti-bullying policy. The third candidate supported by PAI is Jenny Scicluna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three of these candidates in the race for school board trustee declined to appear at a League of Women Voters forum and also declined interviews for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They did, however, get a tacit nod from the Nevada County Tea Party. The party does not officially endorse candidates, but links prominently on its local elections website to Protecting American Ideals, among other groups, and indicates that the group’s candidates will uphold Tea Party values, if elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What’s at stake is the students’ voice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pritchett is now a freshman at University of California, Berkeley. He has turned 18 and is registered to vote, along with many of his Nevada Union alumni friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absentee ballots have been something that we’ve all been trying to figure out as a whole, as new college freshmen,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pritchett has been helping fellow Nevada Union alumni register to vote in their hometown, get their absentee ballots and mail them in. He half-jokingly said that students, used to doing everything on their phones, are having a hard time finding mailboxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Pritchett’s friends report that about 30 of them have sent their ballots in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Thomas-Gruver-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Thomas-Gruver-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a young man in a ball cap stands in a library\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Thomas-Gruver-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Thomas-Gruver-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Thomas-Gruver-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Thomas-Gruver-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Thomas-Gruver-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Thomas-Gruver-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevada Union sophomore Thomas Gruver began speaking up at school board meetings about racist harassment on campus after a fellow student said to him, ‘Let’s lynch Tommy,’ while on campus. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some Nevada Union students who are still too young to vote, like sophomore Thomas Gruver, say they are still participating in the election by putting up lawn signs, convincing their parents to vote and talking with anyone they can about the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s really at stake is your voice and ability to bring positive change,” Gruver said. “If you are happy and content with the way everything is now, they’re [the candidates backed by conservatives] the people for you. But what’s at stake is really the students’ voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gruver argues that students are the board’s constituents, and he’s concerned about what the outcome of the election could mean for students who attend Nevada Union after him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tears up as he brings up his 7-year-old sister, who is also white and Afro-Latina, and recounts how she already had a student ask her, “What are you?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For my sister, it honestly terrifies me that something like that was already said to her because in a way, that’s like, that’s my little girl, too, you know? That’s kind of my kid, so … ,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gruver said his sister is a big part of why he has learned to be brave this past year and speak up to adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many Nevada Union High students trying to make change, like Gruver, the school board election is the last chance — while they are still in high school — to get things right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s note:\u003c/strong> As of this writing, all three progressive candidates for the Nevada Joint Union High School District Board of Trustees \u003ca href=\"https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/3647/November-8th-2022-General-Election-Resul\">were in the lead\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Another Nevada Union student, McKinley Nguyen, also 16, said she had anti-Asian slurs thrown at her throughout middle school, but it wasn’t until she was at Nevada Union that she felt compelled to speak up — after seeing one of her peers scream the N-word at a Black student in the hallway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinley said that after she and several other students reported the incident to school staff, nothing happened. “No one really blamed the person that did it,” said McKinley. “A lot of people didn’t really think it was either that big of a deal or they didn’t believe that it happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Kelly Rhoden said she couldn’t comment on the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/McKinley-Nguyen-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/McKinley-Nguyen-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman with black hair stands for a portrait in front of a potted plant\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/McKinley-Nguyen-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/McKinley-Nguyen-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/McKinley-Nguyen-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/McKinley-Nguyen-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/McKinley-Nguyen-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/McKinley-Nguyen-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McKinley Nguyen, a high school senior living in Grass Valley, helped convince her principal to mandate anti-bias trainings for all Nevada Union staff. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was events like these that led Nevada Union High students to begin organizing in the school library during their “flex time,” to demand school officials hold offending students accountable for racist and homophobic bullying and harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next two years, that experience would lead them toward a political awakening, one that would eventually focus their activism on trying to defeat conservative school board trustee candidates in the November 8 election. Students say they are working to help elect candidates they hope will take racist and anti-LGBTQ+ behavior more seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘That is not a 15-year-old’s job’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Anthony Pritchett, now 18 years old, was a senior at Nevada Union last year. Pritchett took action by getting himself elected as student trustee on the school board, in order to have an official voice in bringing the harassment issues directly to the school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pritchett, who is Filipino and white, said his frustration had built over four years of experiencing multiple racist comments. He reached his limit after a peer approached him with a noose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone tied a noose for me at lunch and gave it to me,” Pritchett said. “I was just hanging out with my friends at school, at lunch. It was in an almost casual manner, too. Just like, ‘Oh, here’s a noose, man, like, how funny this is.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59812_002_KQED_AnthonyPritchettGrassValley_11042022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59812_002_KQED_AnthonyPritchettGrassValley_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a young man sits on a concrete bench on a college campus\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59812_002_KQED_AnthonyPritchettGrassValley_11042022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59812_002_KQED_AnthonyPritchettGrassValley_11042022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59812_002_KQED_AnthonyPritchettGrassValley_11042022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59812_002_KQED_AnthonyPritchettGrassValley_11042022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59812_002_KQED_AnthonyPritchettGrassValley_11042022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Pritchett sits outside his dorm at the University of California, Berkeley on Nov. 4, 2022. As a student at Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley, Pritchett got elected student trustee on the school board after experiencing racist comments from peers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pritchett said this form of racism is “insidious and stealthy” because the offenders afterward typically deny they meant any harm, or say they didn’t understand the meaning of what they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people don’t understand that racism isn’t just a bunch of rednecks getting in some white hoods and lynching people. Yeah, that’s racist, but that’s not what racism is now. It’s completely evolved,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Students of color at the school say that, in many cases, school officials failed to take their complaints seriously — and that when they did, \u003cem>both\u003c/em> parties often were brought into the school offices, and made to apologize to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Marlee Anderson, who is Black, said happened to her during freshman year. After she heard a classmate directing homophobic slurs at peers, she intervened, and then that classmate called Anderson the N-word, she said. Principal Kelly Rhoden called Anderson into the office along with the offending student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She made me explain how I felt, which was OK. But then she was like, ‘Explain to him how the N-word makes you feel,’ and made me explain to him racism and how being called slurs felt,” Anderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I, when she said that, I was completely blown away because … that is not a 15-year-old’s job to do, who just got in this huge argument with this kid who’s being racist and homophobic towards her. Like … that’s not why I’m here. I’m here to learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlee’s parents said they emailed Rhoden several times to object to what happened, but never heard back from her. Shortly after, they moved their daughter out of the district entirely, to a more diverse school closer to Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Library-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Library-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"the exterior of a high school library\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Library-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Library-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Library-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Library-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Library-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Library-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevada Union High students began organizing in the library, and took several steps to try to get school officials to hold their peers accountable for racist and homophobic bullying and harassment on campus. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Principal Rhoden said she couldn’t comment on that incident either, but she said calling in both the alleged offender and the student who complained for restorative practices is something she’s stopped doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all need to learn. It goes for the adults just as much as it goes for the kids,” Rhoden said. “We have restorative practices within our school that we use all the time. We do restorative circles. We’re doing more and more training with that, which is great. That doesn’t always work when it’s a racial issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhoden said that after Thomas Gruver complained that one of her staff members who had been called in to mediate a racist incident told Gruver he would have to “deal with” it, she took action, mandating anti-bias training for all staff. She said the casual use of the N-word in the hallways has since declined, and Gruver agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, students met with the district, demanding it implement and publicize a strengthened anti-bullying policy whose language included clear consequences — not just for overt harassment, but also for microaggressions. The district responded by launching a Race, Equity and Inclusion Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that caught the eye of Nevada County conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A history of racism in Grass Valley\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nevada County is one the six whitest counties in California. Grass Valley was historically a mining and logging town, and also reportedly a sundown town until the 1960s, meaning that if you were Black, you were not allowed in Grass Valley after dark. In the 1870s, Grass Valley ran its Chinese residents out of town. In nearby Nevada City, Chinatown was burned in 1880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past decade, according to census figures, the county population has shifted to become slightly less non-Hispanic white, declining from 86.5% in 2010 to 81.0% by 2020. That slow increase in diversity is reflected at the high school, too: From 2017 to 2021, the white population at Nevada Union dropped from 81.2% to 73.6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Nevada-Union-High-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931388\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Nevada-Union-High-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"students walk in a high school\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Nevada-Union-High-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Nevada-Union-High-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Nevada-Union-High-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Nevada-Union-High-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Nevada-Union-High-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Nevada-Union-High-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The student body in Nevada Union High, in Grass Valley, is 80% white. School officials say the daily, casual use of the N-word in halls and classrooms has dropped significantly this year, thanks to students of color speaking up about racist harassment on campus. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of this underscores the need for ethnic studies to be taught at Nevada Union, says physics and chemistry teacher Eric Mayer. “They need it now. So that’s another thing that’s at stake with this board,” Mayer said. “Are we going to have a progressive ethnic studies that addresses these issues that students in our society now face? Or are we going to have something that just checks the box?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer said that talk of how to teach ethnic studies has become a political “third rail” in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter a group of people, led by Grass Valley resident Judy Wood, calling itself “Protecting American Ideals.” Wood and other members began showing up at board meetings to argue against diversity, equity and inclusion measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Equity divides people by race, and ensures race-based equality of outcomes. It encourages discrimination to get there,” Wood told the board at a raucous meeting last November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 400 people showed up, with American flag-waving folks on one side and anti-racist students and their supporters on the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was genuinely terrifying,” said Pritchett, recalling how it felt to be seated with other board trustees in the center of the tension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had our two vice principals at our school there, these two larger men, and they had to escort people away from us a couple of times when things got very tense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Eric-Mayer-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931392\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Eric-Mayer-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a white man with a grey beard and glasses in a pink shirt smiles at the camera\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Eric-Mayer-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Eric-Mayer-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Eric-Mayer-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Eric-Mayer-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Eric-Mayer-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Eric-Mayer-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevada Union physics and chemistry teacher Eric Mayer wants ethnic studies taught now, and thinks it can help curtail student racist behavior on campuses. He says the discussion around ethnic studies is the ‘third rail’ that has rallied local conservatives. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the heated meeting, Wood falsely accused the district and school board trustees of allowing critical race theory, an academic theory that argues that systemic racism is part of American society, to be taught in Nevada Joint Union High School District schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board explained that it allowed a presentation about it so it could “hear the other side.” Student organizers and their supporters were furious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At subsequent board meetings, Gruver and other students spoke up during public comment, pleading with the board to acknowledge their experiences and do something to make district high schools safer for kids of color and LGBTQ+ students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, the board rejected the students’ proposed anti-bullying policy change, objecting to the inclusion of consequences for racist and homophobic bullying. Pritchett said it felt like a punch in the gut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people felt a lot of defeat,” he said. “People felt there’s a lot of hope lost. It’s like, where do we go from here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was at this point that the November 8 election for NJUHSD board trustees suddenly took on significance for student organizers, said Pritchett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These elections really do bring some of that hope back,” said Pritchett. “Because now we have a chance to put people that will listen into a position of power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pritchett’s mom, Olivia, was so disturbed by the board’s inaction that she decided to run for trustee. So did another parent, Wendy Willoughby, and a former teacher, Ken Johnson. All three candidates held a student listening session and assured students that, if they got elected, student voices would be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/lawn-signs-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/lawn-signs-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"signs for political candidates on a lawn\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/lawn-signs-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/lawn-signs-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/lawn-signs-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/lawn-signs-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/lawn-signs-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/lawn-signs-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The school board trustee election has fired up Grass Valley students hoping to defeat candidates supported by local group Protecting American Ideals, including Stephanie Leishman, granddaughter of the late ultraconservative US senator from Utah, Orrin Hatch. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their opponents are backed by the Protecting American Ideals group. Stephanie Leishman, a granddaughter of the late ultraconservative U.S. senator from Utah, Orrin Hatch, is running for trustee, along with Jay Adamson, son of current board member Pat Seeley, a board trustee who rejected the students’ stronger anti-bullying policy. The third candidate supported by PAI is Jenny Scicluna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three of these candidates in the race for school board trustee declined to appear at a League of Women Voters forum and also declined interviews for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They did, however, get a tacit nod from the Nevada County Tea Party. The party does not officially endorse candidates, but links prominently on its local elections website to Protecting American Ideals, among other groups, and indicates that the group’s candidates will uphold Tea Party values, if elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What’s at stake is the students’ voice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pritchett is now a freshman at University of California, Berkeley. He has turned 18 and is registered to vote, along with many of his Nevada Union alumni friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absentee ballots have been something that we’ve all been trying to figure out as a whole, as new college freshmen,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pritchett has been helping fellow Nevada Union alumni register to vote in their hometown, get their absentee ballots and mail them in. He half-jokingly said that students, used to doing everything on their phones, are having a hard time finding mailboxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Pritchett’s friends report that about 30 of them have sent their ballots in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Thomas-Gruver-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Thomas-Gruver-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a young man in a ball cap stands in a library\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Thomas-Gruver-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Thomas-Gruver-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Thomas-Gruver-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Thomas-Gruver-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Thomas-Gruver-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Thomas-Gruver-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevada Union sophomore Thomas Gruver began speaking up at school board meetings about racist harassment on campus after a fellow student said to him, ‘Let’s lynch Tommy,’ while on campus. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some Nevada Union students who are still too young to vote, like sophomore Thomas Gruver, say they are still participating in the election by putting up lawn signs, convincing their parents to vote and talking with anyone they can about the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s really at stake is your voice and ability to bring positive change,” Gruver said. “If you are happy and content with the way everything is now, they’re [the candidates backed by conservatives] the people for you. But what’s at stake is really the students’ voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gruver argues that students are the board’s constituents, and he’s concerned about what the outcome of the election could mean for students who attend Nevada Union after him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tears up as he brings up his 7-year-old sister, who is also white and Afro-Latina, and recounts how she already had a student ask her, “What are you?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For my sister, it honestly terrifies me that something like that was already said to her because in a way, that’s like, that’s my little girl, too, you know? 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s the home stretch in the race for Oakland’s next mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten candidates have been making their final pitches to voters, addressing some of the city’s ongoing issues — which are detailed in \u003ca href=\"https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/pn7DqNK8c99egH39YZ0FpENJSYjgDq5Qj8jl1xbGz0w8dLNjT-3pRWYxwaPxuyxFNqKtTDTm9OYjVauA.3gow6b_LGUNOej5J?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=JDp3t45MQSmH02CXJCHtfw.1667417570063.10c1e7fb2f5a1d82eb7d85bd392fffe6&_x_zm_rhtaid=727\">a recent poll\u003c/a> by the Oakland Chamber of Commerce. The findings show that 97% of 604 likely voters surveyed think homelessness and gun violence are among the top problems the city faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same poll also shows the likely front-runners: City Councilmembers Sheng Thao and Loren Taylor, and Ignacio de la Fuente, a former councilmember. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/alameda#oakland-mayor\">Find more information about all the candidates here.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland voters are using \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11930836/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-ranked-choice-voting\">ranked choice voting\u003c/a> to choose their next mayor. When the system first rolled out during the 2010 mayoral race, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/44028/why-politicos-hate-ranked-choice-voting\">it helped Oakland City Councilmember Jean Quan\u003c/a> beat former state Sen. Don Perata. Two candidates, Taylor and Treva Reid, also a current councilmember, have teamed up, urging voters to choose them as their top two picks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So as Election Day approaches, KQED’s Brian Watt talked with some voters to find out more about the candidates and issues that are motivating them. Here’s a snapshot of their conversations.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Linda Handy, 72, Maxwell Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931206\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931206 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a teal button down shift stands right of frame looking into the camera. A sunny day illuminates an out of focus house and yard behind her. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda Handy poses for a portrait in Oakland on Oct. 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Retiring soon from a long tenure as an elected member of the Board of Trustees of the Peralta Community College District, Handy said she isn’t drawn to the name recognition that some mayoral candidates appear to have cultivated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she is focused on the candidates who have several years of experience in public service. For her, the choice for mayor is between Greg Hodge, who served on the Oakland Unified school board in the early 2000s, and Ignacio de la Fuente, whose service on the City Council goes back to 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘You’ve got three City Council members sitting there, saying, If I move from this seat as a councilmember to the end seat as the mayor, things are going to be different. Sometimes you need to find out the direction to the bathrooms in the office that you’re in before you want to move on to the next top office. They haven’t cut their teeth in their roles [on the] City Council. We need someone who is knowledgeable.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/one-oakland-voter-on-how-shes-choosing-the-next-ma\">\u003cem>Listen here for the full radio interview.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Miya Saika Chen, 41, Lake Merritt\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931208\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931208 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits right of frame looking left, smiling. She appears to be at a window sill looking out, while wearing a wool cardigan.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miya Chen poses for a photo at Alkali Rye — Oakland’s Beverage Shop, a business co-owned by her brother Kori Saika Chen, in Oakland on Nov. 1, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chen, a lifelong Oakland resident, worked for three years for Nikki Fortunato Bas, who represents District 2 and is the current City Council president (and who is running for reelection in her district). Seeing closely how city government works, Chen said public safety and homelessness are among the top issues for her this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘I’m inspired by leaders who are really thoughtful and thinking about not just Band-Aid solutions for the problems we have right here. I’m thinking about my parents being able to walk around at night. I want a safe city. But I don’t want political leaders to just tell me what I want to hear. I want thoughtful safety solutions that think through and address the root causes of the problems that we have here and prevent a lot of this stuff from happening in the first place on our streets.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/oakland-voter-with-city-government-experience-weig\">\u003cem>Listen here for the full radio interview.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Romero Wesson, 21, downtown Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931209\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931209 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a suit stands center frame looking left. Behind him, a white building and small courtyard. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romero Messon stands outside Oakland City Hall on Nov. 2, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wesson, who grew up near the Eastmont Town Center, said he’s committed to Black leadership and is supporting Councilmembers Loren Taylor and Treva Reid. A member of the city’s Youth Commission, he added he’s invested in making sure young people are prioritized in policymaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘If we look at a lot of the movements in Oakland, a lot of them are youth-led charges and movements. It’s really indescribable what I can see Oakland doing when it partners with the young people — instead of being on opposing sides of the young people. So once adults get out of ‘adult-ism,’ which is oppression of youth, once they really step out of themselves and see youth are capable, we can make some real change.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/talking-with-oakland-voters-romero-wesson\">\u003cem>Listen here for the full radio interview.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Eurydice Manning, 41, Lake Merritt\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931212\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931212 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits left of frame looking right. She sits at a small pink table and wears a black button down top with bright red cherries on it. Behind her is a bakery display. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eurydice Manning, owner of James and the Giant Cupcake, at her shop in Jack London Square in Oakland on Nov. 1, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few months before the pandemic hit, Manning, owner of James and the Giant Cupcake, opened a second shop in the Jack London Square area. She said she had to furlough many of her employees while balancing demands at home: raising her daughter, who was navigating kindergarten over Zoom. Still, she said she continued fighting to keep her businesses running — and that spirit persists as she reflects on the politics of reproductive rights and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927521/questions-raised-about-whether-proposition-1-will-actually-expand-abortion-rights\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>, which would enshrine abortion access in California’s constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘At this point, a lot of other personal things are on the line. This is an all-female staff — not by choice, but by gravitation of how people feel comfortable in the spaces they want to be in, and it’s just one of those human rights that you just don’t question. When something gets taken away from you, you have to think about what that would look like without something that’s necessary to the lives of the people that I’m working with.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/talking-with-oakland-voters-eurydice-manning-owner\">\u003cem>Listen here for the full radio interview.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kaliyah Tillman, 18, East Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931213\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931213 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits center frame wearing a green tshirt. She sits with sunlight on her face but the room behind her is covered in shadow. Out of focus shelves can be seen behind her but not much else can be made out.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaliyah Tillman at the East Oakland Youth Development Center on Oct. 25, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tillman, an intern at the East Oakland Youth Development Center, has a few tattoos on her left arm: the Gemini sign; “2004” for the year she was born; and angel wings honoring her older brother, Corey Clay, and her cousin, Aaron Pryor. Both were shot and killed in recent years. So as she gets ready to vote for the first time, she’s thinking about the issue of gun violence; the city saw one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906253/violent-crime-soared-during-the-pandemic-but-does-the-political-debate-reflect-the-data\">biggest spikes in homicides\u003c/a> in the Bay Area over the past couple years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘I’m not sure what they can do, because I’m not going to say that they need to take more accountability. But I just feel like they put this picture on it as, well, “This is Oakland and this is how Oakland is.” I don’t feel like that’s how Oakland is. It has a lot more good things about it. I know that there’s a lot of bad things going on. But instead of just saying Oakland is a tragic place right now, say, Oakland is going through a hard time.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/talking-with-a-first-time-voter-in-alameda-county\">\u003cem>Listen here for the full radio interview.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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A sunny day illuminates an out of focus house and yard behind her. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda Handy poses for a portrait in Oakland on Oct. 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Retiring soon from a long tenure as an elected member of the Board of Trustees of the Peralta Community College District, Handy said she isn’t drawn to the name recognition that some mayoral candidates appear to have cultivated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she is focused on the candidates who have several years of experience in public service. For her, the choice for mayor is between Greg Hodge, who served on the Oakland Unified school board in the early 2000s, and Ignacio de la Fuente, whose service on the City Council goes back to 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘You’ve got three City Council members sitting there, saying, If I move from this seat as a councilmember to the end seat as the mayor, things are going to be different. Sometimes you need to find out the direction to the bathrooms in the office that you’re in before you want to move on to the next top office. They haven’t cut their teeth in their roles [on the] City Council. 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She appears to be at a window sill looking out, while wearing a wool cardigan.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miya Chen poses for a photo at Alkali Rye — Oakland’s Beverage Shop, a business co-owned by her brother Kori Saika Chen, in Oakland on Nov. 1, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chen, a lifelong Oakland resident, worked for three years for Nikki Fortunato Bas, who represents District 2 and is the current City Council president (and who is running for reelection in her district). Seeing closely how city government works, Chen said public safety and homelessness are among the top issues for her this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘I’m inspired by leaders who are really thoughtful and thinking about not just Band-Aid solutions for the problems we have right here. I’m thinking about my parents being able to walk around at night. I want a safe city. But I don’t want political leaders to just tell me what I want to hear. I want thoughtful safety solutions that think through and address the root causes of the problems that we have here and prevent a lot of this stuff from happening in the first place on our streets.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/oakland-voter-with-city-government-experience-weig\">\u003cem>Listen here for the full radio interview.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Romero Wesson, 21, downtown Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931209\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931209 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a suit stands center frame looking left. Behind him, a white building and small courtyard. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romero Messon stands outside Oakland City Hall on Nov. 2, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wesson, who grew up near the Eastmont Town Center, said he’s committed to Black leadership and is supporting Councilmembers Loren Taylor and Treva Reid. A member of the city’s Youth Commission, he added he’s invested in making sure young people are prioritized in policymaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘If we look at a lot of the movements in Oakland, a lot of them are youth-led charges and movements. It’s really indescribable what I can see Oakland doing when it partners with the young people — instead of being on opposing sides of the young people. So once adults get out of ‘adult-ism,’ which is oppression of youth, once they really step out of themselves and see youth are capable, we can make some real change.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/talking-with-oakland-voters-romero-wesson\">\u003cem>Listen here for the full radio interview.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Eurydice Manning, 41, Lake Merritt\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931212\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931212 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits left of frame looking right. She sits at a small pink table and wears a black button down top with bright red cherries on it. Behind her is a bakery display. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eurydice Manning, owner of James and the Giant Cupcake, at her shop in Jack London Square in Oakland on Nov. 1, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few months before the pandemic hit, Manning, owner of James and the Giant Cupcake, opened a second shop in the Jack London Square area. She said she had to furlough many of her employees while balancing demands at home: raising her daughter, who was navigating kindergarten over Zoom. Still, she said she continued fighting to keep her businesses running — and that spirit persists as she reflects on the politics of reproductive rights and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927521/questions-raised-about-whether-proposition-1-will-actually-expand-abortion-rights\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>, which would enshrine abortion access in California’s constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘At this point, a lot of other personal things are on the line. This is an all-female staff — not by choice, but by gravitation of how people feel comfortable in the spaces they want to be in, and it’s just one of those human rights that you just don’t question. When something gets taken away from you, you have to think about what that would look like without something that’s necessary to the lives of the people that I’m working with.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/talking-with-oakland-voters-eurydice-manning-owner\">\u003cem>Listen here for the full radio interview.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kaliyah Tillman, 18, East Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931213\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931213 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits center frame wearing a green tshirt. She sits with sunlight on her face but the room behind her is covered in shadow. Out of focus shelves can be seen behind her but not much else can be made out.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaliyah Tillman at the East Oakland Youth Development Center on Oct. 25, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tillman, an intern at the East Oakland Youth Development Center, has a few tattoos on her left arm: the Gemini sign; “2004” for the year she was born; and angel wings honoring her older brother, Corey Clay, and her cousin, Aaron Pryor. Both were shot and killed in recent years. So as she gets ready to vote for the first time, she’s thinking about the issue of gun violence; the city saw one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906253/violent-crime-soared-during-the-pandemic-but-does-the-political-debate-reflect-the-data\">biggest spikes in homicides\u003c/a> in the Bay Area over the past couple years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘I’m not sure what they can do, because I’m not going to say that they need to take more accountability. But I just feel like they put this picture on it as, well, “This is Oakland and this is how Oakland is.” I don’t feel like that’s how Oakland is. It has a lot more good things about it. I know that there’s a lot of bad things going on. 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