San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced last week that Room 110 in city hall will serve as the city’s new hub for career development and hiring for city employees.

During the global pandemic in 2020, the city shut down its hiring completely. Getting it back up and running was exceedingly slow, prompting a review by San Francisco’s Civil Grand Jury, a government oversight panel of volunteers who serve for one year.

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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.