It is the last week before school starts in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, and it’s time to fix a bike, spruce up a household study space or sew a new tote bag.

The Community Innovation Lab at India Basin Waterfront Park is embracing the right to repair by hosting a week of events for families and kids. The waterfront park itself is an experiment in social repair, as an equity project of the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, the Trust for Public Land, the San Francisco Parks Alliance and the A. Philip Randolph Institute San Francisco, or APRI.

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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.