Danville Patch | Woman Awaits Lung Transplant
May 2010
I interviewed Katie Fleming, a 20-year-old Danville woman who was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age one, as she waited for a double lung transplant. One week later, Fleming received her life-saving transplant and I published an update. I wrote these stories during my work as the editor for Danville Patch.
Art Beyond Borders
May 2008
Print element of multimedia package.
YANGON, MYANMAR – Sunlight streams into an art studio on the first floor of a retail complex in Yangon, Myanmar on a Saturday afternoon. Five artists sit on a blue and yellow bamboo mat, smoking cigarettes, chewing betel nut and drinking beer. The artists laugh and speak in Burmese, surrounded [...]
Northgate News | Nail Salon Success Story
October 2007
Vietnamese Immigrants Successful in Beauty Industry
SAN FRANCISCO– Just before sunrise, Sandy Tran often visits the Wholesale Flower Mart on Brannan Street, to select fresh pink and white orchids for the nail salon she opened in January in the Financial District. On another day, she rides up and down the elevators of the city’s skyscrapers, [...]
Northgate News | Bay Area Youth Support Burma
September 2007
Bay Area Burmese Youth Give Voices to People of Myanmar
SAN FRANCISCO – Under a grey sky, standing beside the Chinese consulate, 19-year-old Kyaw Naing held a microphone to his lips as he led 200 protesters in repeated cries of “Free Burma” on a recent Friday afternoon. As he does at all such gatherings, the [...]
Alameda Sun | Schools Balance Class Sizes
September 2006
Deadline news story covering an Alameda School Board meeting.
Diablo Magazine | A Little Bit Wine Country
July 2006
Short feature about photographer Gary Crabbe’s book Backroads of the California Wine Country (Voyageur Press, 2006).