One Contra Costa man has died, and more toxic shrooms are sprouting, putting more people in danger during what has already been a record season for hospitalizations.
Author Archives: Erica Hellerstein
Erica Hellerstein is an award-winning journalist with more than a decade of experience reporting on global human rights issues. She has reported from Africa, Latin America, Europe, and across the United States, writing about politics, gender, labor, historical memory, and the ways geographies real and constructed shape popular opinion and culture. Before joining El Tímpano, Erica was a senior reporter with the international newsroom Coda Story covering the roots of global crises, from technology’s acceleration of authoritarianism to the use of historical revisionism to serve nationalist political agendas. Before that, she was a poverty and inequality reporter with the San Jose Mercury News, and an investigative reporter with the North Carolina alt-weekly, INDY Week. Her 2022 feature comparing efforts to memorialize atrocities in Germany and the American South won the Online News Association’s 2022 Award for Explanatory Reporting, and her investigation into the environmental and human rights impacts of North Carolina’s commercial hog farming industry won the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Philip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award in 2018. Erica was born and raised in the Bay Area and lives in Oakland with her partner and enormous rescue dog. She is a former soccer player and has also been working with the local soccer and youth development nonprofit, Oakland Genesis, since 2020.
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Los mortales parecidos
Un aumento de hongos tóxicos ha enfermado de manera desproporcionada a las comunidades hispanohablantes e inmigrantes de California, con la mayor concentración en el Área de la Bahía. Entre las víctimas se encuentra un hombre de Contra Costa que murió.
