AreGIS Story Maps

The Geography of Food Insecurity in America: Published November 17, 2021

Cal Matters 

California's Toxic Agency: By Rachel Becker : Published November 19,2020

Images by Tash Kimmell

 Well water throughout California contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’  ...

In the weeks before the coronavirus began tearing through California, the city of Commerce made an expensive decision: It shut down part of its water supply.

Like nearly 150 other public water systems in California, the small city on the outskirts of Los Angeles had detected “forever chemicals” in its well water. 

CalMatters

California Divide: By: Nigel Duara: Published September 14, 2020
Images by: Tash Kimmell

Bill's defeat keeps undocumented garment workers in meager wages...

Before he was hospitalized with COVID-19, before his roommates kicked him out of their shared apartment because of his illness, before he found himself unhoused for the first time in his life, Francisco Tzul noticed people at his downtown Los Angeles garment factory start to cough. In a few days, they would disappear. 

Tzul, 56, is an undocumented worker in the city’s massive garment industry, one that relies on men and women like him to produce shirts, blouses and skirts for major fashion brands so they can be sold at a premium for being made in America. 

Ethos Magazine Winter 2018

Obscured Empowerment: By Tash Kimmell: Published Feb 5, 2018 

Ethos Magazine Spring 2018

Heart Culture:  By Tash Kimmell: Published Apr 15, 2018

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