Snapshots of East Oakland

Coreopsis and zinna flowers to attract bees and other beneficial insects Oakland Voices/Debora Gordon October 2012

The Oakland Voices Correspondents went out into their neighborhoods and observed. They came back with narratives that illustrate how people of diverse backgrounds share the space and get along.

Author Profile

Brenda Payton has been a journalist for 40 years. She was a columnist at the Oakland Tribune
for 26 years. She contributed to KQED radio’s Perspective series for 20 years. She was a co
-producer of
“Your Loan Is Denied,” a documentary about lending discrimination that aired on PBS’ Frontline. She
was a reporter at the San Francisco Examiner, the Boston Phoenix and the New Bedford Standard Times. She was a lecturer at San Francisco State University, teaching newswriting, reporting and feature writing.

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