Author Archives: Sameea Kamal
Sameea Kamal is a reporter/production assistant at CalMatters. She joined CalMatters in June 2021 from the Los Angeles Times, where she was a News Desk editor. Sameea was one of three 2020 IRE Journalist of Color fellows, and previously worked for the Center for Public Integrity. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia Journalism School. Sameea was born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California and is one of the Maynard Institute's M200 fellows.
![Miranda Griswold cuddles her three-year-old, Rhys, before bedtime at their Merced home on July 8, 2021. “Six weeks is nothing,” Griswold said of the current family leave allotment.” “It’s barely time to recover [from C-section] and on top of navigating breast feeding.” Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters](https://i1.wp.com/calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_07.jpg?resize=800%2C600&ssl=1)
