Leila Day
Reporter, Editor, HostLeila Day is a Senior Producer at Pineapple Street Media and is the Executive Producer and co-host of The Stoop Podcast, stories about the black diaspora. Her work has been featured on NPR, 99% Invisible, the BBC as well as other outlets. Before The Stoop, she was an editor at Al Jazeera's podcast network and worked on creating and editing award winning narrative driven journalism. She began her career in journalism at KALW where she worked as a health care and criminal justice reporter. During that time she contributed as an editor, taught audio storytelling to inmates at San Quentin, and helped develop curriculum for training upcoming reporters.
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In 2011, about 82 percent of San Francisco’s students graduated from high school. Ten percent dropped out. Break it down by ethnic group and the numbers…
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Art often shines a light on bigger issues in neighborhoods, in our society, and in our personal lives. Local playwright, Echo Brown explores identity,…
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Welcoming A New SeasonCheryl Morgan is in her kitchen wrapping cookies. Each one is shaped like a buffalo.“They are brown sugar cinnamon, hand-painted…
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We're all getting older, so what are some ways we can embrace it better? When women hit major markers with aging, like menopause, Dr. Louise Aronson, a…
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Education is considered a way out of the prison system and poverty. Yet ironically, for some people education is more attainable from behind bars. Inside…
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Education is considered a way out of the prison system and poverty. Yet ironically, for some people education is more attainable from behind bars. Inside…
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Some people who take dance classes regularly have a saying: “Dance is my church.”Dancer Stella Adelman says just that about going to Afro-Cuban folkloric…
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Lots of people talk about how addicted we are to our screens. We spend our days staring at smartphones, tablets, and computers. But the first digital…
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Every place has a history hidden that lives beneath what you can see on the surface. Just take the Mission District. The Bart Station at 24th street and…
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Tomorrow, voters in two key cities in the Bay Area will weigh in on measures to increase their minimum wage. Both Oakland and San Francisco have…