Sandra Larson is a Boston-based journalist covering urban and social issues and policy. Since 2009, she has written more than 300 stories covering Boston's minority communities and urban and social issues for the Bay State Banner; the New York Times; NextCity.org; Guardian Cities; South End News; Bay Windows; and (past) magazines Exhale, Banner Biz, Glue.  Many of her stories focus on housing, neighborhood economic development, aging, health, racial justice, equity and innovation in transportation, public interest design, and literacy and school readiness disparities. She often reports on pressing problems through a solutions journalism lens, including the 14 stories in the Solutions Story Tracker, a searchable database of solutions journalism stories created and maintained by the Solutions Journalism Network.

In 2015, Sandra completed the Master of Urban and Regional Policy degree at Northeastern University's School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and in 2014-15, she was a GSA/New America Media Journalists in Aging Fellow. In 2016, Sandra was a New America Media Climate Change in Communities of Color Fellow.

Sandra will be Zooming into class on Tuesday, April 28th.  Before class, please read Sandra's stories included in this collection (see below). As you read them, imagine you are the Executive Director or Communications Director of the Ujima Project, Church Space, and First Teacher. How would you catch Sandra Larson's attention so that she would write an article about your organization? How would you prepare for the interview? Would you have been happy with this story? If you could rewrite the story, what would you like to eliminate? What else would you like to have included?  (This will take speculation, but you are up to it!)