Category: Featured
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Video: Crawford Garden is a Reminder of Home for Refugee Students
By Katelyn Anacona, James Burrell, Mark Duvall, Starz Loreto and Julissa Mora The following video was produced by youth in the Media Arts Center San Diego’s Teen Producers Project.
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Navigating Food Traditions as a Somali Refugee Family
By Ruxandra Guidi Mana Ahmed Mohamed arrived in San Diego from Somalia with her husband and oldest son in 1997. They have since had a boy and two girls here. One of the things she found most challenging, she said, was finding the kinds of foods that were acceptable by her faith, Islam. “When I…
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Field Guide: The Refugee Paradox
By Megan Burks [Editor’s Note: Field Guide is a weekly email bringing you the news, explainers and action items needed to navigate your changing community. Click here to subscribe.] FIELD GUIDE TOOLBOX Fresh Fund \ˈfresh\ \ˈfresh\ n. A program that doubles food stamps, Women, Infant and Children (WIC) vouchers, and Supplemental Security Income (SSI/Disability) when spent…
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Mid-City Waits Decades for Bus to Come
City Heights resident Maria Cortez spoke of her nearly three-decade wait for a bus line to be built along Interstate 15. Transit advocates and a handful of residents met at the site of the long-delayed project to ask that SANDAG prioritize transit investments over highway expansions. | Photo Credit: Randy Van Vleck By Adrian Florido…
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Cultivating Community in Southeast SD
Diane Moss is executive director of Project New Village, a nonprofit that recently broke ground on its first community garden in Mount Hope. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido For more than 20 years, Diane Moss ran a teen pregnancy prevention program in southeastern San Diego’s low income, largely African-American and Latino neighborhoods.…