Melissa Montalvo

Melissa covers childhood poverty in the central San Joaquin Valley for The Fresno Bee in partnership with CalMatters' California Divide project. She is a Report for America corps member. Montalvo, a bilingual reporter, covered the food and agriculture industries, Indigenous issues, and Mexican American culture as a freelancer, with bylines in Civil Eats, L.A. Taco, and more.

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A food bank volunteer waits to load an incoming vehicle at the Regional Food Bank's distribution event at Franklin D. Roosevelt Park, in Los Angeles, on March 23, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Arien Pauls, who for years was a victim of human trafficking, looks out her window of her home in Fresno on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. Pauls now helps other victims of human trafficking. Photo by Craig Kohlruss, Fresno Bee
In front of the 1912 Allensworth schoolhouse, officials of the Global Economic Impact Group, LLC, left to right, Randall Cooper, CEO, William Broomfield, COO, Cynthia Sterling, Director of Public Affairs, and Gail Crooms, Planner of Operations, at the rededication and relaunching of the Allensworth State Historical Park, Wed. Aug. 26, 2021. The group is seeking to revitalize the park, the site of the town of Allensworth, founded in 1908 by Colonel Allen Allensworth, the first town in California established exclusively by African Americans. Photo by John Walker, The Fresno Bee
In front of the 1912 Allensworth schoolhouse, officials of the Global Economic Impact Group, LLC, left to right, Randall Cooper, CEO, William Broomfield, COO, Cynthia Sterling, Director of Public Affairs, and Gail Crooms, Planner of Operations, at the rededication and relaunching of the Allensworth State Historical Park, Wed. Aug. 26, 2021. The group is seeking to revitalize the park, the site of the town of Allensworth, founded in 1908 by Colonel Allen Allensworth, the first town in California established exclusively by African Americans. Photo by John Walker, The Fresno Bee

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