REELING FROM THE news that the city of Oakland missed a deadline for a state grant for a potential $15 million to fight organized retail crime, community leaders gathered Monday for a news conference hosted by the NAACP at Acts Full Gospel Church.

A range of issues were addressed including recent shootings, the missed funding opportunity, the search for a new police chief, a possible business strike and the call for a state of emergency by the Oakland NAACP. In addition to representatives from the church and the NAACP, speakers included Chinatown community leader Carl Chan and District 5 City Councilmember Noel Gallo.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.