Manola Secaira is formerly a reporter for Crosscut, where she covered Native communities, the changing region and environmental justice. Before Crosscut, she interned at a variety of local publications like Grist and Seattle Met Magazine.
The city council and environmental advocates are resolving to tackle inequality and climate change at the local level. But with elections on the horizon, there are more questions than answers.
Native women disappear and are murdered at alarming rates, but many aren't even accounted for. By hosting community data-gathering events, the Seattle Indian Health Board hopes to address the crisis.
Summers of fire and smoke are forcing some Eastern Washington families to live with disaster. But local students are marching for a future when they won't have to.
Through his textless educational program BlockStudio, Rahul Banerjee has found that the most equitable way to teach coding might not involve words at all.