Emily Hoeven

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Emily Hoeven writes the daily WhatMatters newsletter for CalMatters. Her reporting, essays, and opinion columns have been published in San Francisco Weekly, the Deseret News, the San Francisco Business Times, the Flathead Beacon, the Daily Pennsylvanian, and the Mercury News. Emily graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English and French and studied English at the University of Cambridge, England as a Thouron Summer Prize fellow. She speaks French fluently and spent a year teaching English in Châteauroux, France.

Shreya Thatai,a second-year students in the Berkeley UCSF Joint Medical program, holds up a sign outside of Berkeley Bowl asking for mask donations to help healthcare workers during the pandemic. According to Thatai, the San Francisco leg of the UCSF drive has already collected 15,000 masks from civilians. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

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