Yosmay del Mazo
Reporting FellowYosmay is an Oakland raised Trans, Latinx, disabled writer, photographer, and audio producer. As a field producer for StoryCorps, he facilitated over 600 interviews, with 6 NPR broadcasts. In addition, he produced for the Disability Visibility Project. He was also a guest presenter at the CAPED conference, Native Cultures Fund, CCA, Mills College, Allied Media Conference, ATALM, and the Disability Organizing Summit speaking on audio production, community oral history, and storytelling in policy advocacy.
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CrosscurrentsRachel Palacios teaches art to youth all over the Bay Area. Her passion, is called Repujados: Mexican tin art. The technique is a tangible way to instill creative ownership. To ask students to connect with their culture… and each other. -
This week marked the five-year anniversary of San Francisco’s COVID-19 shutdown. KALW’s Yosmay del Mazo and Erin Lim went to the Mission district to talk with residents about their memories of that day in this installment of Question of the Bay. -
Today is the last day to take the San Ramon Police Department community survey. -
CrosscurrentsToday, we bring you a special episode of Crosscurrents. It's an audio tour of some of the institutions that have lasted, impacted, and changed San Francisco over time. -
The family of a man, who died in 1985, is pushing to reopen the case initially ruled a suicide. -
Oakland’s Measure OO is a new initiative to change the structure of the Oakland Public Ethics Commission. -
A new law signed by Governor Newsom bans private colleges in California from giving admissions preference to students who have alumni or donor connections. -
Fleet Week is here again in San Francisco. The yearly event honors and celebrates the contributions of US service members. It draws as many as a million visitors to the city. KALW’s Yosmay del Mazo went to the Ferry Building to ask residents about their experiences during Fleet Week in this installment of Question of the Bay. -
A lawsuit against the state prison system alleges decades of withholding gate money for the formerly incarcerated people.
