Sonia Narang
Health & Equity Series EditorSonia Narang is the editor and project manager for KALW's Health & Equity series. Before that, she managed elections coverage for the station. Over the past decade, Sonia reported social justice stories from her home state of California and around the globe for PRI's The World radio program, NPR News, The Washington Post's The Lily, and more.
Sonia has a master's degree in journalism from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and got her start in radio while reporting in Japan for Public Radio International. Sonia began her career in journalism as a print reporter for a community newspaper in Colorado.
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Today, we're going to meet people in East Palo Alto who have been providing people in their communities with everything from food they need to child care. -
In this episode of What Works, we're going to Richmond to hear about a garden project that brings nourishment to a community that lives in a food desert and we'll visit a bike program that helps kids get their own wheels.
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In this episode of What Works, we look at how Fairfield residents and the city have worked to inform the public and put a spotlight on community groups that stepped up during the pandemic.
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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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The word Umoja means "unity" in Swahili, and it's the inspiration for a network of about 30 Bay Area groups called Umoja Health. Their effort to understand the culture of local neighborhoods has helped ramp up COVID-19 testing and vaccination rates in the Bay Area's Black communities.
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Mother Brown’s Dining Room provides hot meals to anyone in need, but especially to the San Francisco Bayview neighborhood that it calls home. So when COVID-19 made it difficult for people to get their food, Mother Brown’s brought the dining room to them.
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Fairfield City Manager Stefan Chatwin presents State of the City 2020: Next month, Fairfield’s City Manager Stefan Chatwin is virtually hitting the road to speak with community groups about how things went this past year. To invite the Fairfield City Manager to come speak to your group, call (707) 428-7400 or e-mail the city manager's office at cmo@fairfield.ca.gov
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In East Palo Alto, local leaders recently held a press conference to discuss vaccine equity and the lack of vaccine availability in the community.San…
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California’s new Blue Shield-run COVID-19 vaccine system starts this week — CalMatters.The state’s goal is to scale up from 1.4 to to 4 million…
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San Francisco is poised to move to the red tier of Covid-19 restrictions. Marin and San Mateo Counties moved from purple to red tier last week. — SF…
