First Lady Jill Biden greets guests at President Joe Biden’s welcome party at the Exploratorium during APEC week in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2023. The first lady is in the Bay Area for a series of fundraising events. (Justin Katigbak/The San Francisco Standard/POOL via Bay City News)

On Wednesday, First Lady Jill Biden made a stop for the Biden Victory Fund at the home of Gretchen Sisson and Andrew McCollum near Buena Vista Park in San Francisco.

A model of the White House sat on a Victorian mantle.  A poster over the hearth read, “Freedom is in peril. Defend it with all your might.”

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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.