Sandy Banks, the instructor of the classroom portion of the METPRO training program that I participated in at the Los Angeles Times, beginning in the summer of 1993.
Richard Kipling, director of the METPRO (Minority Editorial Training Program). He also supervised the trainees during the police portion of the program.
Marty Baron was editor of the Orange County edition of the Los Angeles Times when I was a trainee there in 1994. He would go on to become top editor at the Boston Globe, which was the focus of the film "Spotlight" (Baron was played by Liev Shreiber), and the Washington Post.
My "First Person" piece that Marty Baron scoffed at, about what it's like to be black in Orange County. It took multiple editors' involvement before it was published.
Bill Marimow, one of the top editors at the Baltimore Sun.
Mark Bomster, the unbearable Baltimore County deputy bureau chief who paged me and other reporters constantly, often for no reason. He went on to become managing editor of Education Week.
Rosemary Armao, who worked briefly as the editor of the Anne Arundel County edition of the Baltimore Sun.
Me covering the Albuqerque International Balloon Fiesta for the Albuqueque Journal, October, 2013.
My desk when I covered Social Services for the City Desk of the Albuquerque Journal.
Me at my desk in the windowless Features Department at the Albuquequre Journal, 2015.
Me climbing the hand-built stairs at the Acoma Pueblo about an hour outside of Albuquerque in January, 2014 while reporting an article that won a New Mexico Press Association prize for Feature writing.
At the Acoma pueblo, hanging out with a local storyteller and his son.
Me covered in protective gear for a story about dentistry with general anesthesia for the Albuquerque Journal Health section, 2014.
Me with "Uncle Joe," the first-ever recipient of a heart procedure that stopped his aneurysm as it was starting, and his wife after the article I wrote about his recovery was published.
This blow-up of the article "Uplifting Reunion," about two families reuniting at the Albuqueque International Balloon Fiesta, was given to the subjects of the story, who won the Spirit of New Mexico Award.
Two families reconnect at the Spirit of New Mexico awards ceremony, Albuquerque, 2014.
The first page of the lawsuit that women reporters and reporters of color filed against the Los Angeles Times in June, 2020, for paying them less than white and male reporters. The Los Angeles Times settled with the plaintiffs for $3 million.
Me ziplining (on the left) with an instructor for a first-person story about the New Mexico State Fair, Fall 2013.
Charlie Moore, my editor on the City Desk of the Albuquerque Journal. He then became a spokesman for the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department. He cried after I spent about 90 minutes detailing to him how his racist behavior had affected me.
Carolyn Flynn, the deputy editor of the Features section, who thought it was "hilarious" that I listened to Rachmaninoff while working on my features stories.
Elizabeth Korsmo, the counsel for the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department, who accompanied Charlie to our meeting.
The meeting with Charlie Moore and Elizabeth Korsmo was held here at the Center for Peace and Justice in Albuquerque, NM on June 19, 2020.