“I don't think a single medical team member will come through this and say that their life has not been forever changed.”

Children and therapists in Sonoma County had to shift to virtual quickly during the pandemic. “It's been a roller coaster,” said Meghan Nunez, clinical supervisor at Social Advocates for Youth.

Samantha Kim is 25 and started teaching at Steele Lane Elementary School in Santa Rosa, right after she graduated from Sonoma State in 2017. She now teaches a combination class of fifth and sixth graders. “These kids are starting to form their own identities a little bit and finding out what they know, what they believe in, and their personal philosophies,” Kim said in a zoom interview in March. Now in her fourth year as a teacher in Santa Rosa, Kim had lost weeks of school because of wildfire

Unbound will be a 60-foot sculpture of paper mache winged hearts, ranging from nine inches to nine feet, escaping an antique birdcage. But these hearts will fly through a 100 foot hall in Napa State Hospital, one of California’s largest psychiatric facilities. The installation inside the hospital will run from November to February.

A local coalition called North Bay Jobs with Justice is leading the campaign for farmworker safety and respect during wildfires. And it started with intensive interviews with farmworkers about their needs.

Downtown Downieville in Sierra County is usually packed with tourists in the middle of the summer. But the town is quiet this July, and so are the teenagers. High schoolers experienced prom and graduation cancelations in the first couple months of shelter-in-place and now they’re having to spend the summer inside.

TyAnna Farmer had her outfit ready for the High Sierra Music Festival this year. Sparkles, glitter, glow sticks, and fishnets. “All the festival works,” she said. Farmer will be a senior next year at Plumas Charter School in Quincy. She looks forward to the High Sierra Music Festival every year. “High Sierra doesn't even feel like I'm in Quincy, it feels like I'm in a whole other place,” Farmer said. But High Sierra was one of dozens of summer events cancelled this year, thanks to the COVID-1

On a recent Tuesday, Rebeca Garcia-Gonzalez unpacked large portraits of Puerto Ricans who hail from different corners of the island. She was standing in an art studio in North Richmond, about seven weeks after returning from Puerto Rico. In a sense, she was nearly at the end of a journey that began more than a year ago after Hurricane Irma and then Hurricane Maria ripped through her homeland.