Jeremiah O. Rhodes

journalist

Who Am I? 🤷

I'm a data and multimedia journalist currently based in the Bay Area.

Before I moved to California, I received my bachelor's degree in photo and video journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

I'm currently a dean's merit fellow at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where I'm training to report, write stories and build websites and interactives.

Because I'm also very ✨professional ✨, I'm a member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists (NLGJA).

Call me, beep me if you wanna reach me 📱

my email address is jeremiahorhodes [at] gmail [dot] com.

If you want to keep up with what I'm doing, laughing at and thinking about, you can also follow me on Twitter @jeremiahorhodes (before it goes up in flames)

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Searchlight New Mexico: Tenants with nowhere to turn

In theory, tenants have the right to live in "habitable" conditions. Across New Mexico, thousands of tenants live in units riddled with everything from bed bugs and roach infestations to a lack of hot water. Often, when they reach out to landlords, officials and governmental bodies, they are ignored and their issues go unaddressed. I inspected hundreds of thousands of 311 records and talked with dozens of tenants and advocates for this story that I wrote for my internship with Searchlight New Mexico.

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Searchlight New Mexico: How Green is New Mexico's Governor?

In May 2023, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham was elected to join the executive committe of the US Climate Alliance. She received this honor even as the state experiences record toxic oil spills, controversial alternative energy plans and a reliance on oil and gas for 1/3 of its budget. For my internship with Searchlight New Mexico, I wrote about her appointment and the opinions of New Mexico's climate advocates.

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SF Chronicle: Long-term HIV survivors find familial support in unique S.F. group home

As the "AIDS Generation" enters their later years, plagued by decades of physical and emotional trauma, finding community can be especially difficult. This San Francisco co-op provides the familial bonds that many of its residents lost out on. I wrote about the co-op, some of the challenges facing HIV positive people as they age and the lives of some of the co-op's residnets.

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Fresnoland: Closure of Fresno’s only youth homeless shelter leaves community scrambling

In November 2022, Fresno's Economic Opportunities Commission shut down the Central Valley's only homeless shelter specifcially for people under the age of 18. In its aftermath, I talked with community advocates and politicians as they scramble to fill the void the shelter left behind.

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SF Chronicle: UC regents fire tenured professor after finding he sexually assaulted high school student

My colleague Kathleen Quinn and I wrote a breaking news story about the UC Regent's decision to fire Ting Guo after their investigation, which found that Guo raped a high school student he was mentoring.

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SF Chronicle: Exclusive: UC Davis investigating prominent professor accused of raping high school student

Kathleen Quinn and I investigated allegations into Ting Guo, a prominent professor at UC Davis who was accused of raping a high school student he mentored roughly a decade ago.

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Fresnoland: New leader of local museum sells her dream of the future, pushes Black history forward"

I profiled Nefesha Yisra'el, the newest director of Fresno's African-American Historical and Cultural Museum of the San Joaquin Valley. The museum, which had been closed for years due to the pandemic and a lack of funds, is the only museum chronicling Black life in the Valley.

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A vigil with candles and flowers. The vigil says, 'THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO BLACK AND BROWN LIVES TAKEN BY THE POLICE AND VIGILANTES SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE GEORGE FLOYD REBELLION ON MAY 25TH, 2020.'

Oakland North: Members of Oakland's LGBTQIA+ community gathered for a vigil a week after the Club Q shooting in Colorado, where five people were killed at a queer nightclub.

One week after a shooter killed five people at a queer club in Colorado, Oakland community members organized a vigil. I wrote about the vigil and people who attended.

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