J. Gabriel Ware

Journalist, MA (Communication)

Portfolio
YES! Magazine
03/07/2023
Where a Free Meal for Food-Insecure Families Is Just a Text Away

In May 2021, Chelsea Vasquez and her mother caught two metro buses from their Inglewood, California, home to St. John's Well Child & Family Center clinic, where they had appointments to receive their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Vasquez's stomach turned from hunger while in the waiting room.

YES! Magazine
05/17/2018
An Unusual Way to Rescue a City From Blight-Bees

For over a decade, Detroit has been at the center of the country's urban farm movement. The gardens and farms established on the city's vacant land are a practical answer to both poverty and blight. Now, urban bees are moving in. That's obviously a good thing for the city farms, but it's also helping with the blight.

YES! Magazine
03/26/2018
When They Couldn't Afford Internet Service, They Built Their Own

Dwight Roston is drilling on the roof of a home in Detroit's Islandview neighborhood on the city's east side. Roston is part of a team that is setting up a wireless internet connection. The home is just one of 150 designated households in the city to receive free internet service by the end of the year.