My name is Nik Altenberg and I’m a journalist based in Oakland, Calif. I work as a copy editor and fact checker for Santa Cruz Local and as an on-call reporter and producer for KQED. My experience is as a general assignment reporter and 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.
I earned a degree in Latin American and Latinx Studies from UC Santa Cruz and I speak Spanish. At the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas I used open-source intelligence (OSINT) research methods for human rights investigations based in Latin America. As a volunteer with the Covid In-Custody Project I helped gather, analyze and archive data on COVID-19 in California’s county jails.
I am always open to collaborating with others and proposals for freelance work; don’t hesitate to reach out.
