The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area is located an hour’s drive and a half-century away from San Francisco. Frozen in time, the winding roads include watery landscapes and a living archive of early 20th century agricultural architecture.

On Saturday, U.S. Rep. John Garamendi, D-Fairfield, will speak in Rio Vista at the RioVision Gallery to launch the Delta National Heritage Area’s Passport Program, a milestone aimed at boosting heritage tourism and public engagement throughout the waterways and communities of Northern California.

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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.