LEE ROMNEY

Creating November In My Soul, a deeply-reported narrative podcast on mental illness, confinement and liberty, supported by California Humanities, the California Health Care Foundation, the USC Center for Health Journalism and the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Co-authored What Kind of Bird Can't Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection, detailing half a century of advocacy by Dorsey Nunn on behalf of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. (Forthcoming from Heyday Books in April 2024.) Produced series of audio documentaries for the Judicial Council of California on domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking in tribal communities. Audio work has aired on the national podcasts Radiolab, Reveal, and Making Contact, as well as NPR's Here & Now, KQED's The California Report Magazine and KALW's Crosscurrents. Independent print journalism has appeared in Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, The Guardian, CALmatters and The Los Angeles Times.

Reported and produced monthly in-depth sound-rich narrative radio features on education for Crosscurrents, KALW-FM's news magazine and podcast. Focused on vulnerable student populations. Reported and produced award-winning series on Black students and the fight for equity in San Francisco schools supported by a National Fellowship from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism's Fund for Journalism on Child Well-Being. Served as mentor to KALW Audio Academy fellows.

Covered school discipline, social emotional health and school climate part time for online education journalism website. Focused on equity and the health of the whole child. Completed data-driven enterprise piece on high suspension rates in rural California schools.

San Francisco Bureau 2003 to 2015

• Covered general news for the Bay Area and Northern California, including as acting bureau chief; produced enterprise stories, investigations and news features while providing daily pieces and blog posts; developed sub-specialties on mental health, Native American tribal lands, immigration and criminal justice reform.
  

1992 to 2003

• Covered issues including poverty and health care as a California state rover; focused on minority-owned small business as a Los Angeles-based business reporter; covered policing, the Latino immigrant community and municipal bankruptcy in Orange County; covered an influx of mainland Chinese immigrants in the San Gabriel Valley; reported on the border from San Diego