I am a journalist and visual storyteller based out of Fresno, California. My reporting has covered issues and policies that affect the BIPOC, immigrant, and Queer communities in Fresno County.
Wickey Twohands, 77-year-old Indigenous elder, was detained in October 2024 for standing on a sidewalk, an act deemed a crime under Fresno’s newly implemented "no-sit-lie or sleep" ordinance. The ordinance bans sitting, lying, sleeping or camping on public property....
On Sunday, March, 22, 2025, around 150 folx, several from the Central Valley, gathered in Yosemite Valley for a Rally & Learn, an event organized nationally by the Resistance Rangers and in Yosemite by a local group of organizers.
Over 100 people came together in Fresno on Saturday, January 18, to take part in the Women’s March demonstration.
Are immigration raids the solution? U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Gregory Bovino claims they’re about safety, but research tells a different story.
In Fresno County, immigrants represented 21.4% of the 979,915 residents as of 2016 according to Census Bureau estimates. The unauthorized or undocumented population in Fresno County is estimated by the Migration Policy Institute to number approximately 85,000.