Carrie McClish

Freelance writer

United States

Freelance writer and journalist based in Oakland, California. Specialties include feature articles and stories of people helping people.

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Catholicvoiceoakland
The Catholic Voice - an online publication of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland

Not a goodbye, but a thank you In 1984, shortly after graduating from San Francisco State University with a BA in journalism, I began searching for work in the very competitive journalism job market of the Bay Area. I applied to local daily and weekly publications and sold freelance articles at a couple of papers in the East Bay.

Catholicvoiceoakland
The Catholic Voice - an online publication of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland

Work - and worth - rooted in East Oakland Since the age of 15, Rasheed Stanley-Lockheart had spent every year of his life incarcerated. Now 43, Stanley-Lockheart's life changed for the better when, upon his release from San Quentin Prison earlier this year, he started a new job at Planting Justice, an Oakland-based nonprofit dedicated to sowing seeds of healing and second chances in the community through gardens and an urban nursery.