Olivia Cruz Mayeda
Local News Fellow at San Francisco Chronicle
Culture Writer @NPR’s Bay Area Station KQED
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1 month ago |
sfchronicle.com | Olivia Cruz Mayeda
Arianna Khmelniuk laid out hundreds of small bottles with labels like "galaxolide ipm 10%" and "cedarwood virginia eden 10%" on an ochre table in her Richmond lab. She selected one and passed it to her perfume-making workshop attendees. "What do you feel when you smell it?" she asked. "It smells like a dead seagull," said one participant, who hoped to make a fragrance that evoked a cold, misty ocean. "Yes!" Khmelniuk exclaimed.
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2 months ago |
sfchronicle.com | Olivia Cruz Mayeda
The Rev. Deborah Lee stood in a San Francisco church under a pale blue ceiling dotted with dark blue stars.
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Jan 14, 2025 |
sfchronicle.com | Olivia Cruz Mayeda
Susan Hayase and Tom Izu fell in love while fighting for Japanese American reparations. “Tom was giving a speech, and he’s clutching the lectern and talking really fast,” Hayase recalled with a laugh.
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Nov 3, 2024 |
sfchronicle.com | Raheem Hosseini |Olivia Cruz Mayeda
An image of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., jitters on the screen, slightly pixelated. A voice snarls, “She’s a flat-out traitor” and accuses the “wacky Democrat” of representing Hamas. In a different commercial, a camera slow-zooms in on a desaturated photo of Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on a tarmac shaking hands with former President Donald Trump. A voice seethes, “Jim Jordan is a MAGA extremist.
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Oct 31, 2024 |
sfchronicle.com | Yalonda M. James |Olivia Cruz Mayeda
“It’s not surprising for her because I know her, but it’s stunning that it’s happening. Stunning. And in the way that it’s happening, her perseverance through all of the odds, the obstacles and challenges that being a Black woman entails just to live day to day. But yet to go after an office where she can uplift people — all people in the United States — to me is just a stunning opportunity. Kamala and I met in 1970.
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