Juma Sacramento operates local businesses, connects youth to jobs
Nonprofit teaches economic development skills to low-income youth By Jenelle Lum Valeria Ulloa was contemplating her next steps when she first heard of Juma during…
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Creativity in the Capital: Liv Moe and Jennifer Jackson discuss the ‘cross pollination’ of artistic collaboration and the power of a network
By Casey Rafter Sacramento artist and writer Liv Moe is the founder, curator and director of the Verge Center for the Arts, which offers residency…
Sacramento women’s group empowers local business owners
By Marie-Elena Schembri Reneta Jenik quickly saw the benefits with her Folsom-based home chef service, Foodom, when she gained her first corporate customer from a…
So, you wanna be a Sacramento sound engineer?
How audio masters keep the beat for the city’s live entertainment By Eddie Jorgensen Jeremy Ayala, an audio engineer who runs the sound boards at…
Song of the mountain lark: Cassidy Joy rises with a stirring soundtrack of determination
By Scott Thomas Anderson Garden lights are drifting on a pale dream of the evening, their orbs crossing in lines to glow like mountain honey…
Creativity in the Capital: Barbara Range and Jaya King on making artistic success reality and how to be one’s own ‘biggest advocate’
By Casey Rafter Barbara Range, director of The Brickhouse Gallery and Art Complex since 2012, has called her work as the space’s curator “in service…
Housing California’s Policy Director Christopher Martin on ‘adopting solutions at scale’ to move the needle on housing
By Jessica Laskey here’s never a day’s rest for Christopher Martin, policy director for Housing California, a statewide advocacy organization that “works to create a…
Storytelling project uplifts the voices of South Asian women
‘Gulabi Stories’ uncovers taboo topics and promotes healing within South Asian communities By Marie-Elena Schembri Farrah Dalal’s story is rooted in a “transformative experience” she…
Is middle housing the missing piece in Sacramento?
How ‘Missing Middle Housing’ could help the city reach its goals By Ken Magri The task seems Herculean: Sacramento needs to add more than 60,000…
ACCE Sacramento’s Jovana Fajardo says grassroots organizing is crucial to solving the housing crisis
By Seth Sandronsky Jovana Fajardo helms the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action Sacramento division. The grassroots nonprofit is active on many fronts…
Creativity in the Capital: Elle Jaye and Gabe Nelson discuss the difference between being a hugger and a homebody
By Casey Rafter For over 20 years, Sacramento photographer Elle Jaye has been playing with light, water and laughter to capture electric images in her…
Sacramento County behavioral health manager Sheri Green on bridging the housing gap
By Seth Sandronsky Sheri Green is a division manager for Sacramento County Behavioral Health Services. She specializes in providing mental health services for the unhoused…
Unsheltered in place
Sacramento’s homeless, among whom Blacks are disproportionately counted, face daunting barriers to escaping life on the streets By Robert J. Hansen Underneath and alongside the…
Sacramento Manor completes largest-ever apartment electrification retrofit project
Affordable senior living community makes a conscious shift from gas to electric By Steve Martarano The recent transformation of 260 senior living garden apartments at…
Sacramento’s housing crisis: Seven possible — and tested — solutions
By Chris Nichols, Scott Thomas Anderson, Ben van der Meer, Robert Hansen, Jessica Laskey Sacramento was long-known as one of California’s most affordable metros. A…
House Sacramento co-founder Kevin Dumler says reimagining zoning is key to solving the affordability crisis
By Catherine Warmerdam Kevin Dumler is co-founder and director of House Sacramento, an all-volunteer organization advocating for sustainable, inclusive and affordable housing solutions at the…
How support for diverse micro-businesses is shifting Sacramento’s ‘cultural landscape’
By Gavin Hudson Roshaun Davis, co-founder of Unseen Heroes and its sister nonprofit CLTRE, noticed that talent born in Sacramento rarely tended to stay, which…