Jenny Simeone
Jenny Simeone is a 2013 graduate of University of California Santa Cruz. She comes to St. Louis Public Radio from the sleepy hills of Berkeley, CA where she landed after stints at Ms. Magazine, KQED's the California Report, and as Editor-in-Chief for a San Francisco a civic tech company. As the newsroom's third Diversity Fellow, she covers race, access, culture, immigration, and power.
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Today is the first day of summer and that means it’s the start of the busy season for Lise Bernstein. As the president of Women’s Voices Raised for... -
Young immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children, and received temporary Social Security numbers and work permits under an... -
Updated May 31 with information on aldermanic hearing — St. Louis’ parks committee weighed in Wednesday on the controversy surrounding the memorial to... -
When Sheila Beckham’s house was leaking heat last winter, she thought back to when her great-grandfather repaired his home. “I remembered that the Urban... -
The sirens started a little before 8 p.m. on the last night of February. Residents of Perry County, in southeastern Missouri, retreated to their... -
Updated May 15 with ongoing fundraising — The creators of #BlackMamaBailoutSTL — Arch City Defenders, the St. Louis Action Council, and Decarcerate St.... -
“It was the wildest Cinco de Mayo party I have ever experienced,” recalled Angel Jimenez-Gutierrez remembering his first May 5 in Missouri. It was 2002... -
Advocates from the Migrant and Immigrant Community Action Project normally help St. Louis clients navigate the complex U.S. immigration system. But this... -
Fewer than four percent of St. Louis city and county residents are Latino. While the Midwest as a whole has a reputation for very small Latino... -
For the first time in 16 years, St. Louis is welcoming a new mayor into office. The shift in power from Francis Slay to Lyda Krewson led Curious Louis...
