Mikhail Zinshteyn, CalMatters, Author at Local News Matters

AFTER HER FRESHMAN year at San Francisco State was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, Marissa Ledesma fled from the campus vowing never to return. It wasn’t just the fast-spreading coronavirus that poisoned the well. Her whole first year was a bust, from an emotionally trying saga with her roommate to paying a lot to […]

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