Every heat death is preventable, but only if the people most at risk can be reached with the correct information in the correct language, be directed to public resources and be inspired to use them.

That was the conclusion made by Braden Kay, the new Extreme Heat Program Manager in Gov. Newsom’s Office of Planning and Research. He spoke this past Tuesday along with four community leaders to give a public update on California’s response to extreme heat, which was hosted by Ethnic Media Services, a nonprofit that works to enhance the capacity of diverse news outlets.

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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.