LOCAL LEADERS AND REPRESENTATIVES of elected officials, from a mayor’s office to Congress, sat in a circle late last month at the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond to discuss the idea of adding a second commemoration to the John F. McCarthy Memorial Bridge, commonly known as Richmond-San Rafael Bridge.

The McCarthy memorial signage would remain the same and be restored, according to Sarah Pritchard, executive director of the Rosie the Riveter Trust, the nonprofit that supports the national park.

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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.