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