Blanca left her heart in Jalisco

Sep 15, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mission Street, Newsletter, People We Meet, Photography

Blanca Villalvazo, 38-year-old, came to the United States three years ago to help her sister raise...

The walk to sell a paleta got a lot longer with COVID-19

Sep 9, 2020 | Featured, Instagram, Newsletter, People We Meet

Forty-two-year-old Francisco Sanchez spends his days walking around San Francisco selling ice...

Living amid SF’s tech scene, they’ve never had a mobile phone

Sep 8, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, People We Meet, Today's Mission

Not a flip, not a so-called Obama phone, not any cell phone; but they do have a little notebook If...

People We Meet: Alexis Vergara, server and bartender at Tacolicious

Sep 3, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, People We Meet, Today's Mission

Alexis Vergara, 23, a server and bartender at Tacolicious, begins his workday with a temperature...

People We Meet: Jose McDevitt-Hickey, census taker

Aug 13, 2020 | Newsletter, People We Meet

On a warm Wednesday late in the afternoon, Jose McDevitt-Hickey walked down 22nd Street from his...

People we meet: Kelly Murphy

Jul 15, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Newsletter, People We Meet, Photography, Today's Mission

I met Kelly Murphy when she was a teenager. Her boyfriend, Scott, was painting a mural across the...

People We Meet: Vincent

Jul 12, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, People We Meet

The first words Vincent spoke to me were: “I don’t understand why people litter.” It was before...

People We Meet: Jason

Jun 3, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, People We Meet, Today's Mission

Jason came to San Francisco from Ohio, where he studied art at Kent State. He started his own...

People we Meet: Jose Sanchez

May 20, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, People We Meet, Today's Mission

José Sanchez came to the United States when he was twenty-one. He is thirty-four years old, speaks...

People we Meet: Nelson Molina

May 13, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, People We Meet, Today's Mission

Nelson is loud, ebullient, enthusiastic and emotional. He expresses amazement whenever I give him...

People We Meet: Sonia Mejia

May 6, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, People We Meet

The day I met Sonia Mejía she was sweeping the sidewalk around her tent. Sonia was born in San...

People We Meet: Delson James Barette

Apr 15, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, People We Meet, Today's Mission

From his appearance, one might assume Delson James Barette is a wild man, but he is one of the...

People We Meet: Alberto and Jaime

Apr 8, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, People We Meet, Today's Mission

Jaime Castillo is 53 years old. He is from La Libertad in El Salvador. Jaime came to the United...

People We Meet: Carlos Antonio Guillen

Apr 1, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, People We Meet, Today's Mission

I met Carlos Antonio Guillen, known as Carlito to his homeless friends, at the beginning of...

People We Meet: Rick Clark and Max

Mar 18, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, People We Meet

Rick Clark is from the South Side of Chicago. He has been in San Francisco for 20 years and has...

People We Meet: Joseph Stewart

Feb 26, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Newsletter, People We Meet, Today's Mission

A week before Christmas on a rainy night, I was walking home past Iglesia Presbiteriana de la...

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