Standing in front of her children’s school in San Francisco on Monday, Margarita Salito held up a large photograph of herself and other families taken with Mayor Daniel Lurie last month when they met with him about the threat of facing eviction from city shelters. 

Now several families facing eviction are speaking out again and held a press event at on Monday. They were joined by supporters from the nonprofit Faith in Action and the United Educators of San Francisco, a union representing 6,000 public school employees. 

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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.