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"content": "\u003cp>When the UC Berkeley campus shuts down for the winter break, student Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly usually returns home to spend the holidays with his family in the western Ivory Coast city of Man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We follow the traditional way,” Coulibaly said to KQED about his family holiday traditions in Africa. “Just getting some chicken, and then cook and eat together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 23-year-old graduate student studying for a Ph.D. in structural engineering is stuck in Berkeley because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been hell,” Coulibaly said. “I never really thought I would have to go through something like that. And especially alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly']‘It has been hell … I never really thought I would have to go through something like that. And especially alone.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With cases of the coronavirus increasing around the globe and a no-travel advisory in full force across the Bay Area, many people are making the difficult choice to spend the holidays without family and friends. But for international students like Coulibaly, who infrequently see their families throughout the school year due to distance and cost of travel, it’s an especially bittersweet time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coulibaly ultimately made the decision to stay in the Bay Area due to the complicated travel guidance both here and at home, and because of concern about the spread of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life at UC Berkeley has never been easy. Coulibaly has been at the school for a while. But while he made many friends as an undergrad, they’ve mostly all graduated and moved on, while he stayed behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So starting the grad program, I really felt isolated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the pandemic has only made those feelings of isolation worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While being an international student in the U.S. can be difficult overall, the situation is particularly acute for African students at Berkeley. There are \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only around 60 students from Africa\u003c/a> at the school right now — about 1% of the international student population — and half of those are undergraduates. With such a small population, it can be hard to connect with people who have shared life experiences, especially during a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1020x649.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1536x977.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley 2020 international student enrollment by country \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Coulibaly said it’s been tough to fit in with Berkeley’s Black and African American student groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with the people that look like you, you don’t really understand the struggle that they have been through being in this country,” Coulibaly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Coulibaly has a generous scholarship, he’s had to work side jobs on campus to send extra cash back home to his family in the Ivory Coast, though this type of work is currently on hold while the school is closed for winter break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also been navigating issues of racism and discrimination on campus, like the time he overheard a couple of students say they would never date a Black guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never experienced that before coming to the United States,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coulibaly said he’s reached out to his campus counselor and psychiatrist for help. But he wishes he could get more emotional support from his family. He said there’s a lot of stigma surrounding mental health issues in his home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way mental health is taken back home, just like ‘you will be fine’ or ‘it’s going to pass’ and stuff like this. So I had a lot of breakdowns,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, Coulibaly said, he’s just focused on getting through the holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m listening to African music from home and cooking. That’s all I can do,” he said. “And I’m hoping that this situation gets better and be at least able to go home next winter break.” [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Remote Learning, Thousands of Miles Away\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike Coulibaly, many of the international students that chose to enroll this year haven’t even set foot on campus because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://opa.berkeley.edu/campus-data/uc-berkeley-quick-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-sixth\u003c/a> of UC Berkeley’s student population comes from outside the U.S. And \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/students/current/expenses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they pay\u003c/a> more than twice as much in tuition fees and living expenses as their \u003ca href=\"https://admissions.berkeley.edu/cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in-state counterparts\u003c/a>. International student enrollment was at an all-time high during the last academic year, at nearly 7,000 students. But \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the numbers plunged\u003c/a> for the fall 2020 semester, down to less than 6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And getting a remote education has come with a whole different set of challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852657\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley international student enrollment over the years \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just been a roller coaster, basically,” said Idris Muktar Ibrahim, a journalism student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim said he’d prefer to be on campus. But since UC Berkeley classes have been happening online during the pandemic, it made more sense for him to stay in Nairobi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t been to Berkeley. I was really excited, like, when I got the news that I’ve been accepted,” he said. “It’s my dream. I really want to do a graduate program, because of the networking and, of course, enhance my skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But going to school remotely means dealing with the 11-hour time difference between his home in Nairobi and the U.S. west coast. Ibrahim’s classes on Zoom typically begin at around 7 p.m. Nairobi time and run till 2 or 3 in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852658\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-687x916.jpg 687w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-414x552.jpg 414w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-354x472.jpg 354w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley journalism student Idris Muktar Ibrahim is currently studying from Nairobi. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Idris Muktar Ibrahim)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said he plans to spend most of this holiday season recovering from the fall semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sleeping, first of all,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 28-year-old scholarship student also said he’s been hammered by intermittent tech outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of class, the power goes off, or there’s no internet,” Ibrahim said. “I miss a lot of the lectures and the discussions. It really frustrates me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this after working a full shift at his day job, producing video news stories for the German international broadcaster \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deutsche Welle \u003c/a>— like \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/the-gaping-hole-left-by-ethiopian-airlines-flight-et-302/av-52707218\">this one\u003c/a> commemorating the anniversary of an Ethiopian Airlines flight crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if things weren’t already hard, Ibrahim came down with COVID-19 at the start of the fall semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was dying, to be honest with you,” Ibrahim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, he’s made a full recovery, and decided to quit his day job so he can focus full time on his studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sacrifice,” he said — one of many he has to make this holiday season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes to make it to the UC Berkeley campus sometime next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the numbers plunged\u003c/a> for the fall 2020 semester, down to less than 6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And getting a remote education has come with a whole different set of challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852657\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley international student enrollment over the years \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just been a roller coaster, basically,” said Idris Muktar Ibrahim, a journalism student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim said he’d prefer to be on campus. But since UC Berkeley classes have been happening online during the pandemic, it made more sense for him to stay in Nairobi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t been to Berkeley. I was really excited, like, when I got the news that I’ve been accepted,” he said. “It’s my dream. I really want to do a graduate program, because of the networking and, of course, enhance my skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But going to school remotely means dealing with the 11-hour time difference between his home in Nairobi and the U.S. west coast. 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"content": "\u003cp>Lilian Mworia is a 22-year-old international student from Kenya who attends California State University, East Bay. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, not only did she lose access to in-person classes, she lost her source of income: her on campus job. She says she had no other choice but to live in her car for three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mworia is in her final year at CSU East Bay. She was living with relatives before the pandemic, but once March arrived she wasn’t able to secure temporary housing or financial assistance. It wasn’t until she missed an exam that one of her professors told her about the school’s Pioneers for H.O.P.E. program, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.csueastbay.edu/hope/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">aims\u003c/a> to help the campus’ most-at-risk students facing homelessness, food insecurity and other dire situations to meet their basic needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to the pandemic, some college students have had to confront a huge set of challenges. Schools are not only a place for education — for many, they’re a place of safety, food and a source of speedy internet access. To make matters worse, many students who had on-campus jobs have now lost them, making it harder to fulfill their basic needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s worsening problem of student homelessness began long before the pandemic. As noted in a wide-ranging UCLA report released this fall titled “\u003ca href=\"http://transformschools.ucla.edu/stateofcrisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dismantling Student Homelessness in California\u003c/a>,” 11% of all CSU students across the state experienced homelessness in the 2018-2019 school year. A larger number of students who identified as Black or Latinx experience homelessness compared to other racial groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also found that although food insecurity and homelessness amongst students has been an issue for the past decade, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates the problem: “Families that were already on the brink of financial and housing insecurity may become eligible for homelessness assistance due to COVID-19,” \u003ca href=\"http://transformschools.ucla.edu/stateofcrisis/vii-conclusion/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the report\u003c/a> states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the pandemic hit, unemployment rates skyrocketed. Due to shelter in place, Chancellor Timothy White ensured that CSU’s student employee income was protected, but only through April 5, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mworia said that the school gave students around $300 per month for about three months. However, as an international student, Mworia’s employment options are even more limited because she doesn’t qualify for an off-campus job due to her visa status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I pay so much money for school fees that nobody was willing to fight for me — as if I’m not human,” Mworia said. “That was very disturbing. So yeah, I feel like they [CSU-East Bay] could have done better.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lilian Mworia, an international student from Kenya who attends CSU, East Bay\"]‘I pay so much money for school fees that nobody was willing to fight for me — as if I’m not human … That was very disturbing. So yeah, I feel like they [CSU-East Bay] could have done better.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After feeling financial strain and hardship, Mworia reached out to the international programs office to see if they had any resources that would help her out. “I was just told there’s nothing they can do for me,” Mworia said, despite explaining that she was homeless in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where CSU East Bay’s Pioneers for H.O.P.E (Helping Our Pioneers Excel) program came in. Established in 2016, the program helps students find adequate housing, meals, and schedules food pantries for people to attend once a week with the exception of the holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program typically helps a handful of students each month. But that’s increased over the course of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.csueastbay.edu/about/files/docs/csueb-facts-2019-20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In the 2019-2020 school year\u003c/a>, the overall population of Cal State East Bay was 14,705 — and the program has helped roughly 10,000 students between March and May of 2020, according to Darice Ingram, the program coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852794\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852794\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Hope-Program-Coordinator-copy-800x594.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Hope-Program-Coordinator-copy-800x594.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Hope-Program-Coordinator-copy-1020x757.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Hope-Program-Coordinator-copy-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Hope-Program-Coordinator-copy-1536x1140.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Hope-Program-Coordinator-copy.jpg 1903w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darice Ingram, program coordinator for the H.O.P.E. program at CSU East Bay. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ingram has been in her position with H.O.P.E. for two years. She noticed that the coronavirus pandemic created an influx of people applying to food pantries and emergency assistance and explained that the program focuses on assisting students, from temporary housing and paying bills to hosting pop-up food pantries once a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingram says that students are in charge of choosing what goes in their grocery bags, which can help eliminate food waste. The staff then assembles food bags and distributes them, following social distancing guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have fresh fruits and vegetables. We try to make it fun, do little recipes and have our students talk about how easy it is,” Ingram said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pioneers for H.O.P.E gives aid to all students, unlike \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/calfresh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalFresh\u003c/a>, a federal food benefits program operated by the California Department of Social Services, for which only certain people qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Euridice Pamela Sanchez, CSU East Bay’s current student body president, said that the pandemic prompted her to make food at home so that she does not expose herself to the virus. “I’m excited because there’s a lot of free food,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez has to prioritize the resources available to her because she is a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, also known as a Dreamer, which granted legal status to young U.S. immigrant residents who were brought by their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DACA recipients are not eligible for CalFresh programs. “I know Pioneers for H.O.P.E., they don’t require any citizenship requirements and so I really try to promote it for Dreamers,” Sanchez said. [aside tag=\"education\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingram explained that many students who moved back in with their families have unexpectedly had to revert their lives. With everyone sheltering in place at home and with many layoffs, families are now struggling with having food on the table and adequate internet access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingram said that because of this issue, H.O.P.E. helps students on the Hayward campus, but they also connect students to external resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Mworia, the program has stabilized her living situation, provided food and basic needs as well as offered her a job with H.O.P.E. “They have been nothing but a blessing for me,” Mworia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Additional resources available for students and contactless food distribution at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.csueastbay.edu/hope\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal State East Bay campus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.accfb.org/get-food/\">Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/a> also offers students and community members contactless meals as well as grocery pick up at the distribution center in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.foodbankccs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano\u003c/a> offers contactless meal packages in multiple locations throughout Contra Costa and Solano counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information on the specific resources Cal State East Bay, offers as well as other community resources please visit the Hope \u003ca href=\"https://www.csueastbay.edu/hope/resources.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resources page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After feeling financial strain and hardship, Mworia reached out to the international programs office to see if they had any resources that would help her out. “I was just told there’s nothing they can do for me,” Mworia said, despite explaining that she was homeless in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where CSU East Bay’s Pioneers for H.O.P.E (Helping Our Pioneers Excel) program came in. Established in 2016, the program helps students find adequate housing, meals, and schedules food pantries for people to attend once a week with the exception of the holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program typically helps a handful of students each month. But that’s increased over the course of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.csueastbay.edu/about/files/docs/csueb-facts-2019-20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In the 2019-2020 school year\u003c/a>, the overall population of Cal State East Bay was 14,705 — and the program has helped roughly 10,000 students between March and May of 2020, according to Darice Ingram, the program coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852794\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852794\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Hope-Program-Coordinator-copy-800x594.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Hope-Program-Coordinator-copy-800x594.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Hope-Program-Coordinator-copy-1020x757.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Hope-Program-Coordinator-copy-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Hope-Program-Coordinator-copy-1536x1140.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Hope-Program-Coordinator-copy.jpg 1903w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darice Ingram, program coordinator for the H.O.P.E. program at CSU East Bay. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ingram has been in her position with H.O.P.E. for two years. She noticed that the coronavirus pandemic created an influx of people applying to food pantries and emergency assistance and explained that the program focuses on assisting students, from temporary housing and paying bills to hosting pop-up food pantries once a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingram says that students are in charge of choosing what goes in their grocery bags, which can help eliminate food waste. The staff then assembles food bags and distributes them, following social distancing guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have fresh fruits and vegetables. We try to make it fun, do little recipes and have our students talk about how easy it is,” Ingram said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pioneers for H.O.P.E gives aid to all students, unlike \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/calfresh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalFresh\u003c/a>, a federal food benefits program operated by the California Department of Social Services, for which only certain people qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Euridice Pamela Sanchez, CSU East Bay’s current student body president, said that the pandemic prompted her to make food at home so that she does not expose herself to the virus. “I’m excited because there’s a lot of free food,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez has to prioritize the resources available to her because she is a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, also known as a Dreamer, which granted legal status to young U.S. immigrant residents who were brought by their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DACA recipients are not eligible for CalFresh programs. “I know Pioneers for H.O.P.E., they don’t require any citizenship requirements and so I really try to promote it for Dreamers,” Sanchez said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingram explained that many students who moved back in with their families have unexpectedly had to revert their lives. With everyone sheltering in place at home and with many layoffs, families are now struggling with having food on the table and adequate internet access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingram said that because of this issue, H.O.P.E. helps students on the Hayward campus, but they also connect students to external resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Mworia, the program has stabilized her living situation, provided food and basic needs as well as offered her a job with H.O.P.E. “They have been nothing but a blessing for me,” Mworia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Additional resources available for students and contactless food distribution at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.csueastbay.edu/hope\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal State East Bay campus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.accfb.org/get-food/\">Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/a> also offers students and community members contactless meals as well as grocery pick up at the distribution center in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.foodbankccs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano\u003c/a> offers contactless meal packages in multiple locations throughout Contra Costa and Solano counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>From the coronavirus to wildfires to attacks on democracy, it has been, as they say, a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s not forget the fight for racial justice, family separations and corruption in San Francisco government when we look at 2020 in the rearview mirror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, there has been no shortage of cartoon material over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of my cartoons for this year were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849568/the-hunkering-down-continues\">created at home\u003c/a> …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849568/the-hunkering-down-continues\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11849578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-800x509.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring the \"Home Sweet Home\" classic needlepoint sign as \"Home Stay Home Again\" as new stay-at-home orders are issued by Gov. Newsom' width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-800x509.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-1020x649.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-1536x977.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though it was a painfully difficult year, there have definitely been some silver linings, like cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811883/less-traffic-more-elbow-room\">closing some streets to cars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811883/less-traffic-more-elbow-room\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11811888\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png\" alt=\"Silver Lining by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-1020x711.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he is on the way out, the legacy of President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843177/ripple-effects-of-zero-tolerance\">continues to torment\u003c/a> children and families caught up in his cruel immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843177/ripple-effects-of-zero-tolerance\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11843181\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-800x524.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: Still Separated and Missing by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-800x524.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-1020x668.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-160x105.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-1536x1006.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COVID-19 pandemic brought a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848120/its-harder-than-it-looks\">whole new set\u003c/a> of problems to families around the Bay Area and the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848120/its-harder-than-it-looks\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11848134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-800x482.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: The Pandemic Parent by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-800x482.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-1020x614.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-160x96.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-1536x925.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While along the way, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s metaphors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847958/full-speed-hunker-down\">continued to evolve\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847958/full-speed-hunker-down\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11847964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-800x508.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: The Evolution of a Metaphor Amid COVID-19 by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-800x508.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-1020x648.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-1536x975.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another terrible year of wildfires in California brought more \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842281/the-linguistic-forecast\">power shutoffs\u003c/a> from PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842281/the-linguistic-forecast\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11842288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-800x503.png\" alt=\"Neglected Equipment Power Shutoff by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-800x503.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-1020x641.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-160x101.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-1536x965.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the pea-soup skies of California gave way to … \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838717/ready-set-weekend\">more COVID-19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838717/ready-set-weekend\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838718 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png\" alt=\"Weekend by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-1020x702.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-160x110.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-1536x1058.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California continued to rack up the number one spots, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837409/were-number-never-mind\">not how we’d like\u003c/a>.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837409/were-number-never-mind\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11837416 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-800x577.png\" alt=\"Tired of Number One by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-800x577.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-1020x736.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-160x115.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-1536x1108.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that helped me get through this year (particularly as I waded through the doom and gloom on a daily basis while creating cartoons) was to realize that, on the whole, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835202/the-tallest-survivors\">we \u003cem>will\u003c/em> get through this\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835202/the-tallest-survivors\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11835214\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-800x1662.png\" alt=\"Big Basin by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-800x1662.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-1020x2119.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-160x332.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-739x1536.png 739w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-986x2048.png 986w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We found heroes in the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833486/delivering-democracy\">unexpected places\u003c/a> this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833486/delivering-democracy\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11833493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-800x587.png\" alt=\"Delivering Democracy by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-800x587.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-1020x748.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-1536x1126.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And tried to figure out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833701/red-flag-warning-and-then-some\">new ways to signal danger \u003c/a>…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833701/red-flag-warning-and-then-some\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11833707\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-800x556.png\" alt=\"Red Flag Warning(s) by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-800x556.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-1020x709.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-1536x1067.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… while others \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828988/reading-riting-rithmatic-and-reopening\">didn’t seem worried a bit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828988/reading-riting-rithmatic-and-reopening\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11828995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-800x538.png\" alt=\"Back to School by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-800x538.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-1020x686.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-1536x1034.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the calls for justice came a fresh look at our history that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825638/one-final-discovery\">more truthful\u003c/a> than what many of us grew up with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825638/one-final-discovery\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Columbus by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">patchwork of responses and restrictions\u003c/a>, we now know, is definitely not the most effective way to fight a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11817138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png\" alt=\"Pandemic Patchwork by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-160x125.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-1020x800.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting the deadly coronavirus and systemic inequality simultaneously was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">sometimes in conflict\u003c/a>, as people gathered to demonstrate for racial justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11822919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png\" alt=\"Stay Home Leave Home by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-1020x713.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we have our very own rolling corruption scandal in San Francisco that began with charges being filed against the now-former head of San Francisco’s Public Works department \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798634/nuru-might-need-to-change-his-twitter-handle\">Mohammed Nuru\u003c/a>, whose Twitter handle is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MrCleanSF\">@MrCleanSF\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798634/nuru-might-need-to-change-his-twitter-handle\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11798656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Clean SF by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796289/optics-in-oakland\">tactical armored personnel carrier and robot\u003c/a> needed to evict the “Moms 4 Housing” women from the house they occupied in West Oakland?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796289/optics-in-oakland\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11796314\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"BearCat by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-1020x652.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-1200x768.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s hoping 2021 is a little more safe and sane …\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>From the coronavirus to wildfires to attacks on democracy, it has been, as they say, a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s not forget the fight for racial justice, family separations and corruption in San Francisco government when we look at 2020 in the rearview mirror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, there has been no shortage of cartoon material over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of my cartoons for this year were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849568/the-hunkering-down-continues\">created at home\u003c/a> …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849568/the-hunkering-down-continues\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11849578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-800x509.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring the \"Home Sweet Home\" classic needlepoint sign as \"Home Stay Home Again\" as new stay-at-home orders are issued by Gov. Newsom' width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-800x509.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-1020x649.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-1536x977.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though it was a painfully difficult year, there have definitely been some silver linings, like cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811883/less-traffic-more-elbow-room\">closing some streets to cars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811883/less-traffic-more-elbow-room\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11811888\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png\" alt=\"Silver Lining by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-1020x711.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he is on the way out, the legacy of President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843177/ripple-effects-of-zero-tolerance\">continues to torment\u003c/a> children and families caught up in his cruel immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843177/ripple-effects-of-zero-tolerance\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11843181\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-800x524.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: Still Separated and Missing by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-800x524.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-1020x668.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-160x105.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-1536x1006.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COVID-19 pandemic brought a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848120/its-harder-than-it-looks\">whole new set\u003c/a> of problems to families around the Bay Area and the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848120/its-harder-than-it-looks\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11848134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-800x482.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: The Pandemic Parent by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-800x482.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-1020x614.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-160x96.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-1536x925.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While along the way, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s metaphors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847958/full-speed-hunker-down\">continued to evolve\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847958/full-speed-hunker-down\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11847964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-800x508.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: The Evolution of a Metaphor Amid COVID-19 by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-800x508.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-1020x648.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-1536x975.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another terrible year of wildfires in California brought more \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842281/the-linguistic-forecast\">power shutoffs\u003c/a> from PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842281/the-linguistic-forecast\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11842288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-800x503.png\" alt=\"Neglected Equipment Power Shutoff by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-800x503.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-1020x641.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-160x101.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-1536x965.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the pea-soup skies of California gave way to … \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838717/ready-set-weekend\">more COVID-19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838717/ready-set-weekend\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838718 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png\" alt=\"Weekend by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-1020x702.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-160x110.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-1536x1058.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California continued to rack up the number one spots, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837409/were-number-never-mind\">not how we’d like\u003c/a>.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837409/were-number-never-mind\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11837416 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-800x577.png\" alt=\"Tired of Number One by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-800x577.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-1020x736.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-160x115.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-1536x1108.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that helped me get through this year (particularly as I waded through the doom and gloom on a daily basis while creating cartoons) was to realize that, on the whole, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835202/the-tallest-survivors\">we \u003cem>will\u003c/em> get through this\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835202/the-tallest-survivors\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11835214\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-800x1662.png\" alt=\"Big Basin by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-800x1662.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-1020x2119.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-160x332.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-739x1536.png 739w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-986x2048.png 986w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We found heroes in the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833486/delivering-democracy\">unexpected places\u003c/a> this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833486/delivering-democracy\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11833493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-800x587.png\" alt=\"Delivering Democracy by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-800x587.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-1020x748.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-1536x1126.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And tried to figure out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833701/red-flag-warning-and-then-some\">new ways to signal danger \u003c/a>…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833701/red-flag-warning-and-then-some\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11833707\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-800x556.png\" alt=\"Red Flag Warning(s) by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-800x556.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-1020x709.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-1536x1067.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… while others \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828988/reading-riting-rithmatic-and-reopening\">didn’t seem worried a bit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828988/reading-riting-rithmatic-and-reopening\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11828995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-800x538.png\" alt=\"Back to School by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-800x538.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-1020x686.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-1536x1034.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the calls for justice came a fresh look at our history that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825638/one-final-discovery\">more truthful\u003c/a> than what many of us grew up with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825638/one-final-discovery\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Columbus by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">patchwork of responses and restrictions\u003c/a>, we now know, is definitely not the most effective way to fight a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11817138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png\" alt=\"Pandemic Patchwork by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-160x125.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-1020x800.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting the deadly coronavirus and systemic inequality simultaneously was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">sometimes in conflict\u003c/a>, as people gathered to demonstrate for racial justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11822919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png\" alt=\"Stay Home Leave Home by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-1020x713.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we have our very own rolling corruption scandal in San Francisco that began with charges being filed against the now-former head of San Francisco’s Public Works department \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798634/nuru-might-need-to-change-his-twitter-handle\">Mohammed Nuru\u003c/a>, whose Twitter handle is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MrCleanSF\">@MrCleanSF\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798634/nuru-might-need-to-change-his-twitter-handle\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11798656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Clean SF by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796289/optics-in-oakland\">tactical armored personnel carrier and robot\u003c/a> needed to evict the “Moms 4 Housing” women from the house they occupied in West Oakland?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796289/optics-in-oakland\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11796314\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"BearCat by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-1020x652.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-1200x768.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s hoping 2021 is a little more safe and sane …\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When UCSF wanted to look into COVID-19 disparities in the Black community, they tapped \u003ca href=\"http://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/profiles/rhoads_kim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Kim Rhoads\u003c/a>. Rhoads is an epidemiologist and biostatistician at UCSF who has done extensive outreach in the Bay Area’s Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most current research points to higher COVID-19 infection rates among Black people in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Black Americans are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-race-ethnicity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1.4 times\u003c/a> more likely to catch the virus compared to their white counterparts. (That rate was at 2.6 times more likely when KQED checked on Nov. 21.) And according to the state public health department, Black people make up approximately \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">4% \u003c/a>of positive cases in California but only 6% of the total population in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Rhoads, those statistics don’t tell the full story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking into infection rates among Black Americans in Oakland, Rhoads discovered that virus positivity may be lower than is being reported by public health departments and the media because a large portion of the Black population is being missed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sizable number of people in the community, she said, are untested, unreached and uncounted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She discovered that trend after her team tested 1,000 people across Oakland at eight separate pop-up testing events, and only two Black participants came back positive, leading to a positivity rate of less than 1%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Starting Umoja\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To begin examining disparities in Oakland, Rhoads knew she needed to put together a diverse team of stakeholders — so she brought in community groups, public health departments, and, of course, UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team is called \u003ca href=\"https://unitedinhealthoakland.org/en/eastoakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Umoja Health\u003c/a>. Umoja in Swahili means “unity,” and it’s the first principle of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kwanzaa\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they started in September, Umoja aimed to get more Black and African American folks tested for the coronavirus and to use that data to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To do that, they set up eight pop-up testing sites throughout Oakland over two months in census tracts with greater than 40% African American population represented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pop-ups were unlike other testing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a live DJ playing music, volunteers wore T-shirts that said Umoja, and they handed out goody bags with resource sheets and masks. The overall mood was festive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11852160\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-800x451.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-800x451.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-1020x575.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-1536x866.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re trying to shift is the idea that if you’re going for testing, you’re not going into a clinical or medical environment where people don’t know you and maybe they don’t care,” said Rhoads on a Saturday in September at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cohccministries.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center of Hope Community Church\u003c/a> parking lot, one of their pop-up sites where folks could walk or drive up to get swab and antibody tests for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhoads said their approach was to create testing sites with familiar faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of asking people to come to the clinic, we want to bring the clinic to the people. And when we bring the clinic to the people, we want it to look like the community is bringing it to the community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They got rid of the UCSF logos, the Department of Public Health signs — making the site look more like a health fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhoads said Black people in San Francisco weren’t getting tested despite having testing available to them. Over the summer, she helped organize COVID-19 testing sites in the city’s neighborhoods with the largest African American population, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822167/community-led-effort-brings-free-covid-19-testing-to-bayview-hunters-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point\u003c/a> and Sunnydale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said at one clinic they were only serving a fifth of their capacity and swabs were just sitting there unused, largely due to the relationship between the community and the public health department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852156\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852156\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Phlebotomy tech Brandon Tran administers a COVID-19 swab test to Herb Sanders in his car at a COVID-19 testing pop-up site by Umoja hosted by Acts Full Gospel Church in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. Umoja's mission was to get more African Americans in Oakland to get tested for the coronavirus as well as to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the Black population.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phlebotomy tech Brandon Tran administers a COVID-19 swab test to Herb Sanders in his car at a COVID-19 testing pop-up site by Umoja hosted by Acts Full Gospel Church in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. Umoja’s mission was to get more African Americans in Oakland to get tested for the coronavirus as well as to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the Black population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rhoads said the same thing was happening in Alameda County where testing sites located in predominantly Black neighborhoods weren’t being used by Black people. She says roughly four out five people getting tested were non-Black, like at \u003ca href=\"https://rootsclinic.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roots Community Health Center\u003c/a>, an East Oakland clinic that serves mostly African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamaica Sowell, director of programs and policy with Roots Community Health Center, said 20% of people getting tested at their clinic are Black or of African descent, but added that the percentage doesn’t include those of mixed race, which often include African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Becoming Credible Messengers\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers said an initiative where Black people and allies work together to serve the Black community is significant because it can help fight misinformation that has been spreading within the community since the start of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daryle Allums Sr., executive director of local anti-gun-violence group \u003ca href=\"https://adamikavillage.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adamika Village\u003c/a>, said there’s not enough COVID-19 education in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"covid-19, pandemic\" label=\"More coronavirus coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need credible messengers that our community can trust to give this information. If that’s from a Black doctor, if that’s from a community leader, a pastor — however that look. We need to right education,” Allums said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Umoja popped up at churches, the West Oakland BART station, an outdoor market featuring Black small-business owners called Akoma Market, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At their first pop-up in Akoma Market, Rhoads said they had zero positives out of 75 people tested. “But with the rate of infection that was being reported, we should have had at least one or two,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Results\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Umoja tested exactly 1,000 people (not including volunteers), over half of whom were Black. And only a total of two Black people tested positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A positivity rate of less than 1% contrasts starkly with other reports. So how could the results be so different?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhoads said the answer lies in their testing group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found that we were really reaching a high percentage of folks who had never been tested before,” she said. Over half of the Black people they tested said they were first-time testers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Rhoads, that means they were capturing a larger pool of the Black American population. These are people who may be living “on the edge,” as she put it, but are generally housed. They have jobs but might not have health care or just don’t trust the health care system due to a history of systemic racism. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Kim Rhoads, UCSF epidemiologist\"]“So we’re seeing the people who are not in the system. They’re not in the congregate living setting system, and they’re not in the prison system. They’re just not in the system.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we’re seeing the people who are not in the system. They’re not in the congregate living setting system, and they’re not in the prison system. They’re just not in the system,” Rhoads said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said these testers are the “regular folks” who public health officials and the media don’t always pay attention to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And misreporting the percentages as higher than they actually are can create a narrative that all Black people are disproportionately getting infected by the coronavirus. She said the mortality rate \u003cem>is\u003c/em> higher, but when public health officials and the media portray the community as a monolith, they risk feeding some ugly assumptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhoads said what’s missed is the fact that Black folks are being responsible — they’re wearing masks, social distancing and following public health guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Rhoads is confident in her data, this is one study, and researchers need to continue probing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pivoting to Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When talks of vaccines emerged, Rhoads knew they’d have to leverage the credibility and trust they’ve developed in the community in order to get the word out about vaccines, but in the tried-and-true Umoja way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be providing information and resources and opportunity to question the vaccine,” Rhoads said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To dictate to people what they should do is very not Umoja,” she said. “In fact, it’s the old way, which is the paternalistic health care system, telling people, particularly people of color in underserved communities, why the problems that they’re having are their own fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that “paternalistic” approach might be comforting to folks who haven’t been historically marginalized by the health care system — especially from an esteemed institution like UCSF — that’s not the case with many Black Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going back \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/10/25/556673640/scientists-work-to-overcome-legacy-of-tuskegee-study-henrietta-lacks\">to the Tuskegee experiment\u003c/a>, you know, Henrietta Lacks. A lot of things have been done, unfortunately, against the Black community,” said Dr. Demisha Burns, an Umoja volunteer whose day-to-day job involves \u003ca href=\"http://womenhiv.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">helping women affected by HIV/AIDS in Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852154\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852154\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Joy Kirkwood, an outreach specialist at LifeLong Medical, receives a COVID-19 test at a COVID-19 testing pop-up site by Umoja hosted by Acts Full Gospel Church in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. Umoja's mission was to get more African Americans in Oakland to get tested for the coronavirus as well as to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the Black population.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joy Kirkwood, an outreach specialist at LifeLong Medical Care, receives a COVID-19 test at a COVID-19 testing pop-up site by Umoja hosted by Acts Full Gospel Church in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. Umoja’s mission was to get more African Americans in Oakland to get tested for the coronavirus as well as to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the Black population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman whose cancer cells were taken without her consent in the 1950s, and companies made money using them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, of course, people are like, ‘I’m not going to go get tested. I’m not going to go do this. I’m not going to go get a vaccine,’ ” Burns said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on survey data collected at their pop-ups, Rhoads knew they had their work cut out for them. At an Umoja meeting in November, Rhoads said of the thousand participants, when asked about whether or not they’d be willing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, survey results showed people were equally split across getting the vaccine and not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a willingness to get the vaccine among African Americans suffered a slight drop after their last pop-up, going from 43% down to 40%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Shaw, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://acphd.org/urban-male-health/\">Urban Male Health Initiative\u003c/a> with the Alameda County Public Health Department, chimed in at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As I talk to folks, mainly Black folks, they say I’d like other ethnicities to try it first because we don’t trust that it’s going to be good for us. I’ve heard that comment over and over,” Shaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking for practical solutions, Rhoads said it’s important for trusted community members to get vaccinated and speak about their experience, telling folks whether they had side effects or not, and so forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Umoja, she said, empowers people with information so they can make their own decisions.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sizable number of people in the community, she said, are untested, unreached and uncounted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She discovered that trend after her team tested 1,000 people across Oakland at eight separate pop-up testing events, and only two Black participants came back positive, leading to a positivity rate of less than 1%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Starting Umoja\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To begin examining disparities in Oakland, Rhoads knew she needed to put together a diverse team of stakeholders — so she brought in community groups, public health departments, and, of course, UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team is called \u003ca href=\"https://unitedinhealthoakland.org/en/eastoakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Umoja Health\u003c/a>. Umoja in Swahili means “unity,” and it’s the first principle of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kwanzaa\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they started in September, Umoja aimed to get more Black and African American folks tested for the coronavirus and to use that data to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To do that, they set up eight pop-up testing sites throughout Oakland over two months in census tracts with greater than 40% African American population represented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pop-ups were unlike other testing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a live DJ playing music, volunteers wore T-shirts that said Umoja, and they handed out goody bags with resource sheets and masks. The overall mood was festive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11852160\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-800x451.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-800x451.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-1020x575.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-1536x866.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re trying to shift is the idea that if you’re going for testing, you’re not going into a clinical or medical environment where people don’t know you and maybe they don’t care,” said Rhoads on a Saturday in September at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cohccministries.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center of Hope Community Church\u003c/a> parking lot, one of their pop-up sites where folks could walk or drive up to get swab and antibody tests for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhoads said their approach was to create testing sites with familiar faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of asking people to come to the clinic, we want to bring the clinic to the people. And when we bring the clinic to the people, we want it to look like the community is bringing it to the community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They got rid of the UCSF logos, the Department of Public Health signs — making the site look more like a health fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhoads said Black people in San Francisco weren’t getting tested despite having testing available to them. Over the summer, she helped organize COVID-19 testing sites in the city’s neighborhoods with the largest African American population, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822167/community-led-effort-brings-free-covid-19-testing-to-bayview-hunters-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point\u003c/a> and Sunnydale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said at one clinic they were only serving a fifth of their capacity and swabs were just sitting there unused, largely due to the relationship between the community and the public health department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852156\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852156\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Phlebotomy tech Brandon Tran administers a COVID-19 swab test to Herb Sanders in his car at a COVID-19 testing pop-up site by Umoja hosted by Acts Full Gospel Church in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. 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She says roughly four out five people getting tested were non-Black, like at \u003ca href=\"https://rootsclinic.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roots Community Health Center\u003c/a>, an East Oakland clinic that serves mostly African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamaica Sowell, director of programs and policy with Roots Community Health Center, said 20% of people getting tested at their clinic are Black or of African descent, but added that the percentage doesn’t include those of mixed race, which often include African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Becoming Credible Messengers\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers said an initiative where Black people and allies work together to serve the Black community is significant because it can help fight misinformation that has been spreading within the community since the start of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daryle Allums Sr., executive director of local anti-gun-violence group \u003ca href=\"https://adamikavillage.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adamika Village\u003c/a>, said there’s not enough COVID-19 education in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She said the mortality rate \u003cem>is\u003c/em> higher, but when public health officials and the media portray the community as a monolith, they risk feeding some ugly assumptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhoads said what’s missed is the fact that Black folks are being responsible — they’re wearing masks, social distancing and following public health guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Rhoads is confident in her data, this is one study, and researchers need to continue probing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pivoting to Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When talks of vaccines emerged, Rhoads knew they’d have to leverage the credibility and trust they’ve developed in the community in order to get the word out about vaccines, but in the tried-and-true Umoja way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be providing information and resources and opportunity to question the vaccine,” Rhoads said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To dictate to people what they should do is very not Umoja,” she said. “In fact, it’s the old way, which is the paternalistic health care system, telling people, particularly people of color in underserved communities, why the problems that they’re having are their own fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that “paternalistic” approach might be comforting to folks who haven’t been historically marginalized by the health care system — especially from an esteemed institution like UCSF — that’s not the case with many Black Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going back \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/10/25/556673640/scientists-work-to-overcome-legacy-of-tuskegee-study-henrietta-lacks\">to the Tuskegee experiment\u003c/a>, you know, Henrietta Lacks. A lot of things have been done, unfortunately, against the Black community,” said Dr. Demisha Burns, an Umoja volunteer whose day-to-day job involves \u003ca href=\"http://womenhiv.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">helping women affected by HIV/AIDS in Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852154\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852154\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Joy Kirkwood, an outreach specialist at LifeLong Medical, receives a COVID-19 test at a COVID-19 testing pop-up site by Umoja hosted by Acts Full Gospel Church in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. 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Umoja’s mission was to get more African Americans in Oakland to get tested for the coronavirus as well as to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the Black population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman whose cancer cells were taken without her consent in the 1950s, and companies made money using them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, of course, people are like, ‘I’m not going to go get tested. I’m not going to go do this. I’m not going to go get a vaccine,’ ” Burns said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on survey data collected at their pop-ups, Rhoads knew they had their work cut out for them. At an Umoja meeting in November, Rhoads said of the thousand participants, when asked about whether or not they’d be willing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, survey results showed people were equally split across getting the vaccine and not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a willingness to get the vaccine among African Americans suffered a slight drop after their last pop-up, going from 43% down to 40%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Shaw, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://acphd.org/urban-male-health/\">Urban Male Health Initiative\u003c/a> with the Alameda County Public Health Department, chimed in at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As I talk to folks, mainly Black folks, they say I’d like other ethnicities to try it first because we don’t trust that it’s going to be good for us. I’ve heard that comment over and over,” Shaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking for practical solutions, Rhoads said it’s important for trusted community members to get vaccinated and speak about their experience, telling folks whether they had side effects or not, and so forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://826valencia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">826 Valencia\u003c/a>, a community center for kids in San Francisco’s Mission District, music instructor Beth Wilmurt watched on as some of her young students practice a clapping game she taught them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“High five each other!” she said after they successfully complete several rounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>826 Valencia is one of 78 locations around the city where children who are at highest risk of falling behind, including homeless and foster care students, have gathered to study, socialize and participate in after-school programs — like the one Wilmurt leads two days a week. Her class has nine children in it, ranging from kindergarteners to fifth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel very safe,” Wilmurt said. “Each kid has their own station with a lot of space in between them. Everyone wears a mask. There are hand-washing stations. 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The program — which involves a partnership between the city, a slew of community organizations such as 826 Valencia, the Jamestown Community Center and the San Francisco Community Music Center, and corporations like Comcast — has served around 2,000 K-12 students in small, in-person groups over the past few months without a single reported outbreak of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/about-mayor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed\u003c/a> is touting the success of the program’s first semester as a model for the potential safe reopening of the city’s public schools for in-person learning, which have remained shuttered for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, many private schools have brought students and teachers back into their buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"schools,distance-learning,education\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While some people are questioning whether that’s safe to bring our public school students back to the classroom, it’s important to keep in mind that we haven’t had any outbreaks at these hubs or at the private schools that have already opened for in-person learning,” Breed said at a press briefing about the program earlier this week. “The lessons we’ve learned at the hubs can inform the hard work that we’re doing right now to reopen our public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director of San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dcyf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Children, Youth and their Families\u003c/a> Maria Su said private schools currently open for in-person learning, with their 15,000 students, have even been following the hubs’ safety protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just 2,000 kids and no COVID,” Su told KQED in an interview. “It’s actually over 17,000 and no COVID outbreaks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers are heartening to some epidemiologists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s great to have the evidence that we can open our schools safely,” said \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/kirsten.bibbins-domingo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo,\u003c/a> professor and chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics\u003c/a> at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also expressed caution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are right now in a little bit of a surge,” Bibbins-Domingo said. “The way in which we can ensure that in January we can do this safely is if everybody does their part now over the holidays; to do the social distancing, keeping your network small, so that our positivity rate and our community transmission stays low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the current COVID-19 surge concerns, reopening cash-strapped public schools with the necessary health and safety standards in place poses a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said the city had to hire 500 people to staff its learning hubs’ small classes, which have no more than 14 kids, all while maintaining the necessary sanitization protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is \u003cem>really\u003c/em> expensive,” Su said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total cost of running the program for these few thousand children is $50 million for the year. This is only a tiny fraction of San Francisco’s public school population of 52,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, the San Francisco Unified School District labor unions are pushing back against the idea of bringing students and teachers back to their classrooms anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the SFUSD \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/announcements/2020-12-18-update-timeline-person-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued an announcement\u003c/a> about health and safety criteria the unions would like to see the district follow before any return to in-person learning can happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Mayor London Breed']‘I understand the concerns of some of our teachers who are in the vulnerable population, and we should listen to them. But let’s be honest: San Francisco’s public health officials have been among the most conservative in the country in terms of reopening. 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That all adds up to increased costs for providers, who get little, if any, help from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care workers are considered essential. And in the beginning of the pandemic, the state initially allocated $100 million to expand child care, and pay for protective equipment and cleaning supplies for providers. But that money has been spent, and additional support from the federal government has not materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s newly formed Child Care Providers United union represents providers who watch kids that receive state subsidies for care. The union filed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847863/child-care-providers-say-californias-subsidized-system-is-collapsing-under-pandemic-pressure\">unfair labor practice complaint\u003c/a> against the state in November, accusing officials of failing to collaborate with providers on solutions to pandemic-related issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katina Richardson owns and operates The Little’s Daycare out of her home in Hayward. She works with her assistant and friend Undrea Williams. They shared how they’re trying to make it work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11851375\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46420_024_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46420_024_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46420_024_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46420_024_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46420_024_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46420_024_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katina Richardson sits outside of the day care that she runs in Hayward on Dec. 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Richardson has been tasked with caring for more children and taking on responsibilities she didn’t have before. She’s managed to stay open, but says it’s a stressful time. And because of that, it’s important to follow all the rules so her kids have somewhere to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids have really caught on,” she said. “I’m really proud of them for what they do, as little people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11851369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46402_006_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46402_006_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46402_006_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46402_006_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46402_006_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46402_006_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Undrea Williams talks to a child during lunchtime at a day care in Hayward on Dec. 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Williams said she’s had to leave her other job working with autistic kids because she’s trying to keep her social bubble smaller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a grandbaby that’s 3 years old at my home, and my daughter and my mom,” Williams said. “So I have to make sure that I’m safe at all times to make sure that they’re safe when I go home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11851367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46397_001_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46397_001_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46397_001_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46397_001_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46397_001_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46397_001_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meyonna attends school through Zoom in the living room at Katina Richardson’s day care in Hayward on Dec. 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest challenges of the pandemic has been accommodating school children that need to attend distance learning. Richardson has opened her home to older children she would normally only watch after school, but who now have nowhere else to go. She said they’re juggling three to four different teachers that Zoom with the children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re making sure they’re doing their work correctly. They’re submitting it, uploading it to the computers. Making sure that they get up and get on Zoom at that time,” she said. “We have so many different timers to go off here. All day you hear phones dinging because it’s reminding us to remind them to get on to the computers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11851373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46417_021_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46417_021_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46417_021_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46417_021_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46417_021_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46417_021_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren reads a book behind a plexiglass divider at a day care run by Katina Richardson in Hayward on Dec. 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Safety is a top priority for both women. They wear masks and face shields and try to limit their physical contact with the kids, who also wear masks. There are also procedures in place for drop-off and pickup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the kids have to put their coats into a tote so that they’re not touching,” Richardson said. “We have a thermometer. We’re taking their temperatures and logging it daily as they’re entering the day care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson also bought plexiglass dividers she puts between the kids to help stop the spread of germs. She’s switched to paper plates and cups for meal times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11851372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46411_015_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46411_015_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46411_015_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46411_015_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46411_015_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46411_015_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katina Richardson cleans the table after one of the children finished lunch at the day care that she runs in Hayward on Dec. 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richardson and Williams are constantly wiping down surfaces and toys. The cost of these safety measures and caring for more kids all day adds up. And while schools have budgets and staff and supply chains to help get them through, child care providers are largely on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s hard for us because we can’t get our supplies,” Williams said. “If we work nine to five, it’s hard to get out to get supplies. By the time we go get them, they’re not there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11851368\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46401_005_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46401_005_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46401_005_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46401_005_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46401_005_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46401_005_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katina Richardson sits with the children in the day care that she runs in Hayward on Dec. 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richardson is a member of the child care providers union. She said it’s frustrating that businesses like hers don’t get more support from the state. She said, as an essential worker, she should be receiving some assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have received some form of increase for extra supplies, extra food that we’re buying. Because now we’re buying food to feed kids that are normally not here for breakfast and lunch. They’re normally in school,” Richardson said. “And the state needs to understand that. That us as providers, I have not shut my door. Not one day.” [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those that choose to remain open, it’s been rough going. Many saw their workloads increase as they opened their homes to kids who would normally be in school — more kids means more food and supplies. Providers are also required to take additional safety measures to protect against the virus. That all adds up to increased costs for providers, who get little, if any, help from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care workers are considered essential. And in the beginning of the pandemic, the state initially allocated $100 million to expand child care, and pay for protective equipment and cleaning supplies for providers. But that money has been spent, and additional support from the federal government has not materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s newly formed Child Care Providers United union represents providers who watch kids that receive state subsidies for care. The union filed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847863/child-care-providers-say-californias-subsidized-system-is-collapsing-under-pandemic-pressure\">unfair labor practice complaint\u003c/a> against the state in November, accusing officials of failing to collaborate with providers on solutions to pandemic-related issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katina Richardson owns and operates The Little’s Daycare out of her home in Hayward. She works with her assistant and friend Undrea Williams. They shared how they’re trying to make it work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11851375\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46420_024_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46420_024_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46420_024_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46420_024_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46420_024_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46420_024_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katina Richardson sits outside of the day care that she runs in Hayward on Dec. 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Richardson has been tasked with caring for more children and taking on responsibilities she didn’t have before. She’s managed to stay open, but says it’s a stressful time. And because of that, it’s important to follow all the rules so her kids have somewhere to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids have really caught on,” she said. “I’m really proud of them for what they do, as little people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11851369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46402_006_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46402_006_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46402_006_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46402_006_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46402_006_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46402_006_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Undrea Williams talks to a child during lunchtime at a day care in Hayward on Dec. 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Williams said she’s had to leave her other job working with autistic kids because she’s trying to keep her social bubble smaller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a grandbaby that’s 3 years old at my home, and my daughter and my mom,” Williams said. “So I have to make sure that I’m safe at all times to make sure that they’re safe when I go home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11851367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46397_001_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46397_001_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46397_001_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46397_001_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46397_001_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46397_001_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meyonna attends school through Zoom in the living room at Katina Richardson’s day care in Hayward on Dec. 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest challenges of the pandemic has been accommodating school children that need to attend distance learning. Richardson has opened her home to older children she would normally only watch after school, but who now have nowhere else to go. She said they’re juggling three to four different teachers that Zoom with the children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re making sure they’re doing their work correctly. They’re submitting it, uploading it to the computers. Making sure that they get up and get on Zoom at that time,” she said. “We have so many different timers to go off here. All day you hear phones dinging because it’s reminding us to remind them to get on to the computers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11851373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46417_021_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46417_021_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46417_021_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46417_021_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46417_021_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46417_021_KQED_Hayward_Daycare_12152020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren reads a book behind a plexiglass divider at a day care run by Katina Richardson in Hayward on Dec. 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Safety is a top priority for both women. They wear masks and face shields and try to limit their physical contact with the kids, who also wear masks. There are also procedures in place for drop-off and pickup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the kids have to put their coats into a tote so that they’re not touching,” Richardson said. “We have a thermometer. We’re taking their temperatures and logging it daily as they’re entering the day care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson also bought plexiglass dividers she puts between the kids to help stop the spread of germs. 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But opportunities to earn more advanced degrees are largely limited to correspondence courses of sometimes questionable quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11775030,news_11797314' label='higher education in prison']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choate argues changing that is in everyone’s interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that people with bachelor’s degrees just don’t come back to prison,” Choate said, noting the plan’s potential cost savings through reduced recidivism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR564.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">major study \u003c/a>commissioned by the U.S. Department of Justice found that inmates who participate in educational opportunities behind bars are more than 40% less likely to return to prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the UC Irvine pilot project, an initial cohort of up to 25 men at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego will take courses toward a degree in sociology. The program relies on an existing transfer agreement between Southwestern College — a community college that runs an associate degree program inside the facility — and UC Irvine’s sociology department. The deal grants automatic admissibility to any Southwestern student who has completed the prerequisites for the major with a minimum 3.5 GPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Taking this step brings us closer to fulfilling the central goal of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/content-analysis/academic-planning/california-master-plan.html\">state’s Master Plan for Higher Education\u003c/a> — that anyone from anywhere can earn a college degree,” said UCI associate professor Keramet Reiter, founding director of \u003ca href=\"https://prisoneducation.uci.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UCI’s LIFTED\u003c/a>, the university’s prison education initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiter has been developing the pilot program for more than two years. “It’s been a dream of mine to see the UCs involved in higher education in prisons,” she said. 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Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, a longtime champion for criminal justice reform, sent a video message in support of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The urgency of the work you’re doing is so, so real,” he said. “We have to understand the sheer truth that investing in the education of folks who are behind bars actually helps them flourish when they get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Brant Choate, CDCR director of rehabilitative programs']‘Let’s start with the cohort of 30. Maybe a few years from now we’ll have a cohort of 3,000’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Irvine pilot is expected to roll out fully in 2022, with professors teaching four courses per semester at the prison. The project has received some grant funding to support administrative costs, but Reiter expects most students will be eligible to have their tuition covered through UC’s \u003ca href=\"https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/tuition-financial-aid/types-of-aid/blue-and-gold-opportunity-plan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan\u003c/a>, which extends aid to students whose families earn less than $80,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiter’s goal is for the pilot to lay the groundwork for other UC campuses to create similar programs. This summer, the University of California Academic Senate endorsed a set of principles to guide the system in developing educational programs for incarcerated students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choate is heartened by the momentum. “Let’s start with the cohort of 30,” he said. “Maybe a few years from now we’ll have a cohort of 3,000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11797376 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/inmates-BA-program.042-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/inmates-BA-program.042-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/inmates-BA-program.042-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/inmates-BA-program.042-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/inmates-BA-program.042.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incarcerated men at California State Prison, Los Angeles County — a maximum security facility in Lancaster — attend class as part of a bachelor’s degree program run by Cal State Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(J. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Bay Area’s flagship public university, UC Berkeley, is trying to work its way out of an unprecedented \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/07/15/update-on-budget-expense-reduction-measures/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$340 million deficit\u003c/a> due to the pandemic. And that means some of the hardest-hit departments and individuals on campus are having to fend for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus has seen plunging revenue on several fronts, including $35 million gone in tuition fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had about 800 students that decided not to come back to the fall,\" said Rosemarie Rae, Berkeley's vice chancellor of finance and chief financial officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849562\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1806px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11849562\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-scaled.jpg\" alt='\"\"' width=\"1806\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-scaled.jpg 1806w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-800x1134.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-1020x1446.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-160x227.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-1084x1536.jpg 1084w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-1445x2048.jpg 1445w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/rosemarie-rae-1920x2722.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1806px) 100vw, 1806px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosemarie Rae, Berkeley's vice chancellor of finance and chief financial officer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then there's the $100 million to $140 million anticipated loss in housing and dining income. Plus $33 million in revenue from sports events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of all of the losses, Rae pointed to tens of millions of dollars in additional pandemic-related expenses — from COVID-19 testing and sanitization, to upgrading systems to accommodate remote learning and meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lot of pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been especially tough for Rae herself, who came in seven years ago to oversee the university’s complex $3 billion budget. She spent those years getting the campus out of a $150 million shortfall caused by declining state support, years of frozen tuition and substantial long-term debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're fragile,\" Rae said. \"We were already running skinny as we came into COVID-19.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university isn't reducing tuition costs — a pain-point for many students who decided to go ahead with their studies during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of students are frustrated with this because we have a lot of fees here at Berkeley, like campus service fees and student service fees,\" said Victoria Vera, political science major and student union president. \"Their argument is, 'If I'm not on campus and I'm not in the area to utilize these services, why should I pay into them?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rae said the school's strategy for getting back on financial track includes digging into reserves, taking out loans and relying on federal support. Berkeley has received approximately $30 million in federal CARES Act funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said revenue-generating areas like athletics, and housing and dining, are supposed to be self-sustaining. So aside from some loans that UC Berkeley is making available to these areas, they’re largely on their own when it comes to navigating financial challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Victoria Vera, political science major and student union president']'A lot of students are frustrated with this because we have a lot of fees here at Berkeley, like campus service fees and student service fees ... Their argument is, 'If I'm not on campus and I'm not in the area to utilize these services, why should I pay into them?''[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My goal is to solve as much of our shortfall as we can through our own internal controls, through reductions to our operating budget, controls on compensation,\" said Tom Lowry, UC Berkeley's senior associate athletics director and chief financial officer. \"But depending on the way this football season plays out, we may need more or less of that borrowing authority to remain solvent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just under one third of the athletics department’s revenue comes from televised athletics events — especially football.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley's Nov. 15 game against UCLA, the first of the season, came after months of pandemic-related cancellations, delays and expenses that threw Cal’s athletics department into financial chaos. The original financial projections, based on an entirely canceled season, were harsh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're talking about losing 50% of your revenue just like that,\" Lowry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that some competitive play has started up again, Lowry said the financial picture is looking less grim. But he said the projections could change again with COVID-19 cases now on the upswing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our employees may sustain some unpaid time off in order to deal with this financial crisis,\" he said. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athletics isn’t the only part of campus taking a long, hard look at workforce costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CFO Rae said, \"65 percent of our budget is related to salaries and benefits. So if we're going to try to contain our costs, it primarily happens there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rae said the entire campus has implemented a hiring freeze. Some top administrators and senior athletics staff took a 10% dip in pay. And there have been well over 100 temporary layoffs, mainly in the realms of Housing & Dining, and Cal Performances, the university's performing arts presenter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omar Prevost is one of the people the university temporarily let go. He's lead custodian at The Golden Bear Cafe, one of the few eateries currently open on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849510\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46183_IMG_4907-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden Bear Cafe. One of few eateries currently open on Berkeley's campus. The school's housing and dining operations have sustained enormous losses as a result of the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We're doing simple stuff like coming out every 30 minutes and doing wipe downs on all high contact point areas inside and outside,\" he told KQED while making his rounds one recent lunch time as students chatted and ate around him on the Golden Bear's sunny patio. \"Just trying to stay on pace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prevost said he was out of work for five months while The Golden Bear was closed. According to UC Berkeley's media relations office, just over 100 campus dining services employees were temporarily laid off as a result of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was the most challenging time,\" Prevost said. \"I definitely learned something about budgeting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prevost said since he's come back to work, he's been sharing his hard-earned financial know-how with his co-workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Especially with some of the newer people that are working here,\" he said. \"Like, a lot of us don't make a significant amount of money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley reports no \u003cem>permanent\u003c/em> layoffs so far. However, that doesn’t take into account the roughly 100 lecturers — non-tenure-track teaching staff, also known as \"adjunct professors\" — who were on payroll last academic year, but not this one. [aside tag=\"higher-education\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're usually hired on one-semester or one-year contracts that often aren't renewed,\" said Mia McIver, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://ucaft.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT)\u003c/a>, the union that advocates for non-tenure-track instructors in the UC system, and a lecturer in the writing program at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley has set aside $10 million to minimize COVID-19-related layoffs, especially for low-income staff, funded through faculty and non-union staff pay freezes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though they praise the administration's handling of COVID-19-related health and safety measures, some of Berkeley's tenure-track professors are not happy with this type of approach to solving the university's short- and long-term financial woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're concerned that the already uncompetitive salaries that we have — that don't really sustain a reasonable quality of life in the Bay Area for many — are going to be furloughed,\" said history professor and Berkeley Faculty Association co-chair James Vernon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His concerns will not be unfounded if Berkeley moves ahead with further proposed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley's financial challenges mirror what's happening in the UC system overall. Since the onset of COVID-19, the 10 campuses have sustained around $1.4 billion in lost revenue and other costs, according to the UC Office of the President.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Campuses are using federal CARES Act funding and reserves to mitigate the negative impacts of some of the losses,\" said Office of the President spokesperson Stett Holbrook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many members of the Berkeley community are saying all of this belt-tightening points to a deeper systemic problem with how we fund higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need support as a public institution,\" said student union president Vera. \"We need support from our state government and we need support from our federal government, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='James Vernon, history professor and Berkeley Faculty Association co-chair']'Our campus leaders haven’t done a good enough job articulating why UC Berkeley education is a public good that should get publicly funded.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three decades ago, the state provided half of Berkeley’s revenue. \u003ca href=\"https://calparents.berkeley.edu/the-funding-conundrum-cals-dwindling-state-support/#:~:text=Since%20UC%20Berkeley%20is%20a,vast%20majority%20of%20Cal's%20budget.&text=Today%2C%20the%20state%20funds%20just,other%20sources%20cover%20the%20rest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Today, it covers roughly one-seventh\u003c/a>. Vernon said instead of focusing on cost-cutting measures and pursuing more commercial income streams, Berkeley should redouble its efforts to make the case for increased public funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our campus leaders haven’t done a good enough job articulating why UC Berkeley education is a public good that should get publicly funded,\" Vernon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rae said the university is continuing to advocate for more state and federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Budget Act of 2020 included a stipulation that would have enabled campuses to receive up to $169.2 million. According to the UC Office of the President, this would have represented a 5% increase in funding equivalent to the FY20-21 state budget allocation before the pandemic. But Congress did not approve those funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rae said Berkeley alone would have received around $40 million from the state if the funding had been approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, arguably the main reason for Berkeley's existence — its students — are getting hurt as a result of the longstanding drop in state support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we don't get the proper funding we need to maintain our university, that impacts marginalized students in particular,\" Vera said. \"Not having access to tutoring, to retention recruitment programing, to affordable housing, it really impacts what it's like to be a current student, what it's like to live in the Bay Area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland students are part of a larger group who filed a lawsuit Monday accusing California and its top education leaders of violating the state constitution by denying traditionally underserved students equal access to educational opportunities during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, the state has a constitutional duty to provide equal access to education to all students,” said Jesselyn Friley, an attorney with the firm Public Counsel, who helped file the suit. “Our theory is that the state has fallen behind on that responsibility, and during the pandemic it has only gotten worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court, calls out the state and its education department for mishandling remote education by failing to provide districts with adequate guidance and neglecting to ensure that students, teachers and parents have the basic tools and support needed for distance learning. It also accuses the state of failing to hold school districts accountable for meeting distance education standards put in place by the state Legislature in response to the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs, who include students and community organizations from Oakland and Los Angeles, contend that Black and brown students, low-income students and those who are unhoused or have disabilities have not received the remote learning support they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela J. has three children — including twins — in the Oakland Unified School District who are plaintiffs in the suit. (Attorneys for Public Counsel asked KQED to not provide her real name because of concerns about retaliation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11829281 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43885_IMG_2893-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland REACH founder Lakisha Young at Sydewayz Cafe in East Oakland, greeting parents arriving to pick up computers and other summer school supplies. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the spring, Angela said, her twins’ second grade teacher met with students on Zoom only twice between mid-March and late May. “She just abandoned the whole class,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, her twins have fallen behind in school; they’re still struggling with subtraction when curriculum dictates they should be learning multiplication and division, she said. And their brief daily online interactions with teachers this fall aren’t making up the slack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11829180 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43909_001_KQED_Oakland_REACH_07092020-qut-1020x680.jpg']“I can’t afford to put my kids in private school. So I have to take what they’re giving me,” said Angela, who has three additional children and works a full-time job and two part-time jobs. “I want the Oakland Unified School District to honor our constitutional rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela contrasts that experience with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829180/how-an-oakland-parent-advocate-group-is-making-distance-learning-possible-this-summer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a distance learning program\u003c/a> her twins participated in this summer, run by parent advocacy organization The Oakland REACH, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. In that program, she said, remote learning worked remarkably well both for her and her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The secret sauce to really making that happen was family liaisons,” said Lakisha Young, Oakland REACH co-founder and executive director. Each family of the 200 students who participated in the program was paired with a fellow OUSD parent who was trained to provide mentorship and facilitate connections to resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This person has got your back to make sure you make it to the finish line,” Young said. The liaison might call in the morning just to check in, offer advice about communicating with a teacher or help solve a technology issue. “That makes a huge difference in keeping people in the game, keeping them engaged and even helping them succeed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Lakisha-Young-e1541535688680-800x636.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Reach founder Lakisha Young tells parents in low-performing schools to advocate for their kids.\" width=\"800\" height=\"636\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland REACH founder Lakisha Young speaking to Oakland parents about how to advocate for their kids. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Angela credits Oakland REACH for engaging parents and designing the program to meet their needs. The organization did so in part by providing each child with a computer and Wi-Fi hot spot, if needed, in addition to ongoing tech support. It also paid parents to participate in their own classes on how to support their kids through distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think distance learning can work if the teachers put forth an effort and they have a system that supports them,” she said. “I don’t want to blame it all on the teachers, I think it’s the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Angela, Oakland REACH and the other plaintiffs are asking courts to step in to force the state to ensure that all students have access to the tools they need to successfully participate in online classes. They also want the state to come up with a plan for a return to in-person learning that helps students make up for the learning losses that occurred during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond acknowledged the disproportionate impacts of the pandemic on “those who have been made vulnerable by historic and systemic inequities,” and pointed to his department’s efforts to distribute devices, expand internet access and increase mental health resources available to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As California experiences a dramatic surge in COVID-19 infections,” he said, “we will maintain a laser focus on protecting the health and safety of our school communities while providing the supports needed to ensure learning continues and, where gaps persist, is improved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Jesse Melgar, a spokesman for Gov. Gavin Newsom, defended the administration’s response to remote learning challenges. “Throughout the pandemic this administration has taken important actions to protect student learning while also taking necessary steps to protect public health,” Melgar said in an email. “We will defend our position in court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829280\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11829280 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43884_IMG_2889-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland REACH organizers preparing to hand out laptops and other school supplies to Oakland Unified School District students participating in the organization’s summer school program. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeking is not a return to normal, it’s a new way of running school for Black and brown kids in California,” said Friley, the attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Public Counsel settled two lawsuits, in \u003ca href=\"http://www.publiccounsel.org/stories?id=0288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.publiccounsel.org/stories?id=0303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michigan\u003c/a>, that charged the states with denying underserved students an equal educational opportunity by failing to teach them to read and write. Under the California deal, the state agreed to pay $50 million to some of the state’s neediest schools so they can examine why performance is so low and come up with a three-year action plan. The settlement also created a literacy expert position at the state level to help schools carry out those plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want a world where parents and community organizations are working with schools, with districts, with the state, to try and make sure that no kid is being left behind,” Friley said. “And that’s true regardless of whether we’re in a pandemic or post pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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