Arts & Culture

• “Oasis, San Francisco’s Premier Drag Destination, Is Ready for Its Second Act” KQED, 2026

• “Can Boots Riley’s ‘I Love Boosters’ Make the Revolution Sexy?” KQED, 2026

• “Aggressive Immigration Enforcement Makes Musicians Rethink U.S. Tours” NPR, 2025

• “AI Is Coming for the Music Industry. How Will Artists Adapt?” KQED, 2025

• “Meet the DJs Bringing the Pride and the Party to the Valkyries’ Ballhalla” KQED, 2025

• “Big Feedia Is Ready to Take San Francisco to Church” KQED, 2025

• “A Queer Party Renaissance Brings New Life to Downtown Oakland” KQED, 2024

• “30 Years Ago, Digable Planets' Interstellar Funk Changed Hip-Hop” KQED, 2023

• “Musicians Are Back on the Road, but Every Day Is a Gamble” NPR, 2022

• “On ‘Mahal,’ Toro y Moi Shows Love to the Bay Area and His Filipino Community” KQED, 2022

• “Saving the Music of Ghost Ship Victims Helps Loved Ones Heal” KQED, 2017

Queer history

• “In the 1970s, Bay Area Lesbians Created Their Own Economy” KQED, 2026

• “88-Year-Old Audio Engineer Sandy Stone Survived Transphobic Backlash and Made History” KQED, 2025

• “How LGBTQ+ Hip-Hop Artists Found Their Voices and Changed Culture” KQED, 2023

• “How an Unlikely Publicity Stunt at the 1984 DNC Paved the Way for Bi Visibility” KQED, 2020

• “How the World Caught Up to Sylvester” KQED, 2019

social issues, politics and community organizing

• “Artist Housing Advocates Eye a ‘Once-in-100-Year’ Opportunity” KQED, 2026

• “Emory Douglas on His Iconic Black Panther Art, 60 Years Later” KQED, 2026

• “Trans Activists Vow to ‘Liberate Compton’s’ After SF Board of Appeals Loss” KQED, 2025

• “For Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova, Pride Is Still a Riot” KQED, 2025

• “Artists Alter Their Own Work at YBCA in Pro-Palestinian Protest” KQED, 2024

• “‘He Should Still Be Here’: Zumbi’s Loved Ones Demand Charges for Hospital Staff, Security” KQED, 2022

• “Want to Reduce Gun Violence in Oakland? Invest in Culture, Experts Say” KQED, 2022

• “How Expensive Police Fees Shut Down Oakland Community Events” KQED, 2021

• “Why Do Employers Lowball Creatives? A New Study Has Answers” KQED, 2019

• “After Oscar Grant, Oakland Artists Inspired a New Generation of Activists” KQED, 2019