Photo: SF Rising Director Emily Lee serves on the transition team. Bay City News Service / November 22, 2019 San Francisco District Attorney-elect Chesa Boudin announced on Friday he's assembling a team of advisors to help him develop new policies as he gets ready to...
KPFA Evening News / November 16, 2019 Host: "A coalition of San Francisco area community organizations today kicked off their part of a campaign for Schools & Communities First. Emily Lee is with the San Francisco Rising Alliance, one of the groups involved in the...
KIQI “Hecho en California” / November 14, 2019 / Marcos Gutierrez Interview with David Shor, SF Rising Field Director.
In the 10 years since the last census, San Francisco’s homeless population has skyrocketed. SF Weekly / July 31, 2019 / Ida Mojadad Sonny Lê’s first home as a Vietnamese refugee in America was a studio apartment on Hyde and O’Farrell streets, populated by 11 people...
SFBay / July 15, 2019 / Aaron Levy-Wolins A tight crowd of a few hundred people packed in front of Amazon’s San Francisco downtown office Monday to protest the company’s technological cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
TechCrunch / July 15, 2019 / Megan Rose Dickey On the start of Amazon’s biggest sales event of the year, Amazon workers and activists are taking to the streets today in protest of the retail giant. Protests are planned for San Francisco, Minnesota, New York, Seattle...
SF Examiner Apr. 24, 2019 / Joshua Sabatini San Francisco voters may have the chance in November to boost the tax on stock compensation under a proposal announced Wednesday by Supervisor Gordon Mar to target tech companies going public. Mar’s plan would tax...
Richmond Review / April 5, 2019 / Janice Bressler A new community-organizing group in the Richmond District called Richmond [District] Rising has launched a drive to raise awareness of and find concrete solutions to the neighborhood’s diminishing supply of affordable...
SF Weekly / February 13, 2019 / Nuala Sawyer Bishari For decades, Erick Arguello has been volunteering his time to preserve the Latinx culture of the Mission District. He was raised there, he went to Mission High, and he’s watched as the main corridors of the...
Every morning, families across the Bay Area wake up and the first thing they do is check online for “air quality today” in the hopes of being able to take their kids to the park, go to school, or open a window. But many don’t even have access to the proper masks that...
