San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder received a warm welcome back to City Hall Tuesday after stepping away from her duties for an extended leave of absence for her mental health.

“Thank you for your grace in extending an excuse for my absence for extended leave,” she said in a speech to her colleagues at the Board of Supervisors meeting. “Thank you all so much for your grace, and I’m so proud and honored to be back.”

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.