My name is Nik Altenberg and I’m a journalist based in Oakland, Calif. I’m a copy editor and fact checker for Santa Cruz Local, a 2025 JAWS Health Journalism fellow and an on-call reporter for KQED. My reporting interests include policing and incarceration, environmental inequality, housing and homelessness, immigration and border policy, public health, aging and care, and the stories to be told where these issues intersect.