Georgia Gee

Georgia Gee is a British investigative journalist based in New York City. She graduated from the Columbia Journalism School’s Stabile program in 2020 and her journalism work has largely focused on social issues, immigration and international human rights. Gee has been featured in various British newspapers and New York-based outlets and was selected as a 2020-21 journalism fellow with FASPE, Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics. Gee has been investigating migrant farm outbreaks with the Documenting COVID-19 project, collaborating with multiple newsrooms including The Washington Post and Detroit Free Press.

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CalMatters en Español

Por qué pocos trabajadores agrícolas se aíslan en las habitaciones de hotel COVID-19 gratuitas de California

A pesar de una gran cantidad de COVID-19 entre los trabajadores agrícolas de California, que a menudo viven en hogares abarrotados, el programa Housing for the Harvest de Newsom ha hecho solo 81 reservas de hotel para aislamiento o cuarentena hasta el 16 de diciembre. Dado el temor generalizado entre los trabajadores agrícolas de usar programas gubernamentales , ¿son las habitaciones de hotel de Newsom la respuesta incorrecta a un problema persistente?

By Jackie Botts, Kate Cimini and Georgia Gee • December 19, 2020

California Divide

Why few farmworkers isolate in California’s free COVID-19 hotel rooms

Despite a heavy toll of COVID-19 among California’s farmworkers, who often live in crowded homes, Newsom’s Housing for the Harvest program has made just 81 hotel reservations for isolation or quarantine as of Dec. 16. Given pervasive fear among farmworkers of using governmental programs, are Newsom’s hotel rooms the wrong answer to a persisting problem?

By Jackie Botts, Kate Cimini and Georgia Gee • December 19, 2020