A new mural was unveiled last week at Pocket Park in Novato, marking the completion of a project led by the Racial Equity Subcommittee of the Marin County Youth Commission.

The Marin County Youth Commission is a countywide advisory body that gives young people a voice in local government and community issues. Founded in 1969, it is one of the oldest youth commissions in the country. Made up of 25 people aged 12 to 23 years, the commission acts as a political voice for young people by engaging with the Marin County Board of Supervisors.

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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.