It was Alberto Vargas Quero's first day on the job at Modern Hair Cuts. He had just achieved the first step in his dream of eventually opening his own barbershop. He hoped to make enough money to buy his mother a house.

From Eleni Balakrishnan

Workers started working at Milk SF thinking they could finally be in “a safe space” free from harassment and hostility common in the food industry. They were disappointed.

Read the story behind the closure of the queer-owned community cafe Mission Local missionlocal.org/2023/11/how-a-…

After two wonderful years Berkeley Journalism, can't wait to join Mission Local in September as a CA Local News fellow and start covering stories in the coolest SF neighborhood!!

Had such a great evening with Cecilia Lei and other AAJA San Francisco Bay Area folks! It was so inspiring to read the amazing stories from my peers and I feel so grateful to share this story with everyone

We still have some spots left for our Rising With the Tides mixer tomorrow night!

Enjoy drinks and tasty bites, and a panel discussion about AAPI community reporting featuring Cecilia Lei Kori Suzuki Kate Selig and Junyao Yang 杨均瑶.

FREE RSVP BY TODAY, 8PM PT:
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Found 20 mins yesterday to visit the Nashville Public Library and this is making me want to visit every single public library in every city I go #NICAR23

Feeling nostalgic at the intro to web dev session yesterday with Andrew Briz Carla Astudillo Naël Shiab #NICAR23

Packing for #NICAR23 right now and ready to head to Nashville for the first time! This really feels like the night before going to a huge amusement park for some reason

The SF public library card makes my heart so full. Thanks Chloe.

Too many vigils.

Reverend Norman Fong holds a homemade lantern bearing the names of the victims from the recent mass shootings in Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park, during a gathering at Portsmouth Square in San Francisco's Chinatown last night.

(Kori Suzuki / KQED News)

I'm so excited to work with AAJA San Francisco Bay Area and Karishma Mehrotra as a Rising With the Tides fellow. I will be writing about Chinese women in the U.S. who survived domestic violence. So incredibly grateful to those women who shared their stories with me.

No we didn't 🥶

Following the tragic fire in Urumqi, protests erupted in China. We reviewed online videos and verified their locations. We saw protests and vigils on streets and campuses in Shanghai, Korla, Nanjing, Wuhan and more. W/ Chris Buckley 儲百亮 Zixu Wang
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This morning Lam Thuy Vo and Susie Neilson visited us in the data visualization class and we talked about local beat data reporting and then a little bit about census. But this timeline Lam shared, wow.