Annelise Finney
Audio Academy 2021 FellowAnnelise was born and raised in the East Bay and has a background in oral history and urban studies. For the last four and half years, she's worked as a criminal defense investigator at a public defenders office in the Bronx, New York and at an appellate defenders office in the Bay Area. As an investigator, she frequently interviews people involved in different parts of the criminal punishment system. Through her work, she has become passionate about the power of personal narratives and compelling stories to increase cross-cultural understanding and initate change.
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Record rainfall and high winds have caused flooding, power outages and evacuations across California's Bay Area. This comes as the state has been grappling with a two-year drought.
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Sonoma County is planning big for fire season this year, organizing evacuation drills in some of the most vulnerable parts of the county. Last month, the County held the first drill of the year in an unincorporated area called Fitch Mountain. -
Food insecurity was already a problem in the United States before the Coronavirus pandemic made it even worse. According to one projection, one in eight people in the U.S. will experience food insecurity in 2021. A network of volunteers in Solano County is turning to its neighbors to help address this problem. More specifically, they are turning to their neighbor’s yards, and the fruit trees in them.
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Forty-one California counties are currently in a drought state of emergency. Here in the Bay Area, those include Contra Costa, Solano, Napa, and Sonoma. Now, some water agencies in Alameda County are asking residents and businesses to cut their water usage by 10 percent.
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Alameda County’s District Attorney has announced that she will not run for re-election in 2022.
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Major League Baseball announced on Tuesday, that it has instructed the A's to begin exploring relocation outside of Oakland, while also continuing to pursue a ballpark near Jack London Square.
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In 2018, the State passed a law allowing residents to prepare and sell meals from their homes. Each county had to opt in and create a system for home kitchen permitting before selling home-cooked meals could become legal. So far, only a few counties have opted in.
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Oakland’s Police Commission is seeking new applicants. Commissioners help form OPD policy and oversee the response to police misconduct.
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The City of Alameda has released two 911 calls and body camera footage related to the death of 26 year-old Mario Gonzalez on April 19th.
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Sonoma County’s experienced a major wildfire almost every year over the last five years. This year, the county is taking new steps to prepare the region ahead of fire season.
