california Archives - Nik Altenberg

Publication of “Unido/xs Contra la Sobredosis”

December 16, 2022 No Comments

I am truly humbled to have been a part of the team along with Julia Casas, Isabella Permenter, and our tireless coordinator and study author Carlos Martinez. The report publishes findings from the first harm reduction needs assessment of Spanish and Mayan-speaking people who use drugs in San Francisco, and is a collaboration of the National Harm Reduction Coalition and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, with support from the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Read the full report here.

Reporting

Another housing protest at UCSC

May 21, 2022 No Comments

X, president of the Black Student Union, spoke to the crowd gathered at Kerr Hall Friday.

In a protest that drew nearly 200 students Friday afternoon at UC Santa Cruz, the Student Housing Coalition and its supporters marched to Clark Kerr Hall and taped a list of demands to the locked doors. They included more transparency in the housing assignment process, building more housing, and a four-year guarantee of housing for all students. The protest comes after students signed up for on-campus housing this week, and many were left perplexed when, despite being on the priority list, their preferred housing type was not available — and many believed they would not get the on-campus housing that […]

Reporting

The Santa Cruz Rollers’ search for a home

May 17, 2022 No Comments

Quad skates at the Santa Cruz Roller's meetup in Scotts Valley — Quad skates were the primary vehicle at the Santa Cruz Roller's meetup in Scotts Valley.

My latest article at Lookout Santa Cruz is about the highs and lows of local roller skaters’ attempts to carve out a piece of Santa Cruz for their community. As both journalist and photojournalist I had my work cut out for me on this one. I attended multiple Santa Cruz Rollers meetups, interviewed the mayor of Santa Cruz, spoke with the police chief of Capitola and someone from the Santa Cruz Roller Palladium, interviewed Richard Humphrey of San Francisco’s Golden Rollers, and got a behind-the-scenes peek at the 418 Project’s new performance space which is designed to double as a […]

Reporting

“Good trouble” at UCSC’s dedication of John R. Lewis College

May 7, 2022 No Comments

Hillary Ojeda, education correspondent for Lookout Santa Cruz, and I covered the celebration of the renaming of College 10 as John R. Lewis College yesterday in the Quarry Amphitheater. We had got a tip that there was “someone in the audience” that we would need to get a photo of and that we should get front-row seats. As it turned out, it wasn’t a someone, but a something. When Cynthia Larive, chancellor of the university, took the stage, approximately fifty students in the audience quietly stood and held up signs reading “We can see your greed UC.” They remained standing […]