Ricky Rodas
Reporting fellowRicky Rodas is one of KALW's 2022 reporting fellows. He is a member of the 2020 graduating class of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He spent two years reporting on immigrant communities in the Bay Area as a reporter for the local news sites Oakland North, Mission Local, and Richmond Confidential. Rodas, who is Salvadoran American, is currently the small & immigrant-owned business reporter for The Oaklandside through a partnership with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities.
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If you dropped $500 on a pair of Air Jordans and then stepped into the biggest mud pit, would you dare to clean them yourself or trust a professional? -
Euromix Delicatessen is an Oakland corner store packed with food items from Eastern Europe. Suman Acharya and his business partner purchased the shop in 2021. A few months later, Russia would invade Ukraine and disrupt his business. -
Despite war and political unrest, three generations’ worth of Bolivian tailoring knowledge lives on in the Bay. -
Since the pandemic homicides in the Bay Area have reveresed trends and begun to climb. We take a look behind these numbers with a pastor and a funeral assistant who work intimately with death. We’ll see what a year’s worth of work has been like and how they cope with the loss all around them.
