Q&A: She’s looking to wipe out malaria, the world’s deadliest disease By Liz Harris Nov 28, 2022 Allison Tatarsky is director of the Malaria Elimination Initiative at the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences. The 38-year-old Oakland resident heads a team that works with endemic countries and partners to advance malaria policy and practice. While the world’s attention has been focused on the coronavirus pandemic for the past two years, malaria remains… Read More
Talking With ... Q&A: This UC scientist is studying how solar energy affects wild bees Leslie Saul-Gershenz wears a few hats, but they all involve insects — especially bees. She’s not a beekeeper, though she is fond of the arthropods. She’s… By Liz Harris Aug 24, 2022
Talking With ... Q&A: ‘All the world’s a stage, and I want to costume it’ “All the world’s a stage, and I want to costume it.” That’s Abra Berman’s motto, and you’ve probably seen some of her creations if you attended any Bay… By Liz Harris Aug 18, 2022
Sports How this Jewish basketball nerd became the voice of the Warriors on social media If you’re a fan of the Golden State Warriors, chances are you follow the team on social media. The official Twitter account @GoldenStateWarriors is… By Emma Goss Aug 5, 2022
Talking With ... Q&A: How do you get kids to love math? Try a festival. Math is fun, says Nancy Blachman, and the 65-year-old Burlingame resident is trying her best to get others to agree. Blachman founded the Julia Robinson… By Liz Harris Aug 4, 2022
Talking With ... Q&A: Brooke Joseph talks getting teens to vote and making a president Some might view Brooke Joseph as a political junkie who has spent her professional life on election campaigns. But to the 61-year-old San Mateo resident,… By Liz Harris Jul 27, 2022
Talking With ... Q&A: Tina Sacks on ancestral trauma and feeling ‘Jewish enough’ From a young age, Tina Sacks struggled with feeling “Jewish enough.” Growing up in Chicago with a Black mother and a Jewish father, who was not observant,… By Lillian Ilsley-Greene Jul 20, 2022
Talking With ... Q&A: Cindy Cohn fights for digital privacy on the internet frontier Cindy Cohn won her first legal case for the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1993, three years after the nonprofit was founded to… By Lillian Ilsley-Greene Jul 8, 2022
Talking With ... Reporter heading to Maccabiah in Israel sees sports as ‘uniting force’ Griffin Epstein, 21, grew up in Petaluma and is now a rising senior at Indiana University, studying media with a sports media concentration. The Petaluma… By Gabe Fisher Jun 16, 2022