Corte Madera voters will choose three members of the Town Council on Nov. 3 from a field that includes two incumbents and three newcomers with backgrounds ranging from architecture and environmental engineering to education, government finance and community organizing. Councilmembers Eli Beckman and Pat Ravasio are seeking reelection. Mayor Rosa Thomas, whose term also expires […]
Author Archives: Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News
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.
