Sunita Sohrabji

Sunita Sohrabji is the Health Editor at American Community Media.

코로나 판데믹으로 위험에 처한 가정폭력 피해자들

Clockwise from top left: Dr. Ravi Chandra, Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association; HaNhi L. Tran, Deputy District Attorney, Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office;...

新冠疫情奪去家庭暴力受害者的安全網

Clockwise from top left: Dr. Ravi Chandra, Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association; HaNhi L. Tran, Deputy District Attorney, Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office;...

COVID PANDEMIC CUTS SAFETY NETS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS

Clockwise from top left: Dr. Ravi Chandra, Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association; HaNhi L. Tran, Deputy District Attorney, Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office;...

GLOBAL MIGRANTS KEY TO AVOIDING DEEPER GLOBAL RECESSION

From left to right: Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Distinguished Transatlantic Fellow, Migration Policy Institute; Vicente Calderón, Editor, Tijuanapress.com; Krishnaraj Rao, freelance investigative journalist By SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS...

受新冠疫情衝擊最嚴重的社區有獲得疫苗的機會嗎?

Clockwise from top left: Dr. Ashish K. Jha, Dean, Brown University School of Public Health; Dr. William Schaffner, Professor of Preventive Medicine, Department of...

WILL COMMUNITIES HARDEST HIT GET COVID 19 VACCINES?

Clockwise from top left: Dr. Ashish K. Jha, Dean, Brown University School of Public Health; Dr. William Schaffner, Professor of Preventive Medicine, Department of...

COVID PANDEMIC LAYS BARE CRITICAL SHORTAGE OF LATINX HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS

Clockwise from top left: Dr. David E. Hayes-Bautista, Distinguished Professor of Medicine, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine; Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO, Futuro Health; Margarita...
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The Fight Isn’t Over – Congress Can Still Rescue the Census

"Without action from Congress, the Census Bureau is guaranteed to miss millions of people across every state,” says Vanita Gupta (above), President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

GAPS IN COVID CARE – A SINGLE DOSE OF REMDESIVIR COSTS UNINSURED TWO MONTHS OF INCOME

From left to right: Denise Octavia Smith, Executive Director of the National Association of Community Health Workers; Dr. David E. Hayes-Bautista, Director of the...
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Community Organizations Engage in 11th Hour Scramble to Ensure Accurate Census Count

Community organizations across the U.S. mounted an 11th hour scramble to increase self-response rates for the 2020 Census after an Oct. 13 Supreme Court decision cut the count short by two weeks.

HATE IS HERE TO STAY

Clockwise from top left: John Yang, executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC; Neil Ruiz, associate director of Global Migration and Demography...

舊金山複選排名投票的影響尚無定論

From left to right: Professor Jason McDaniel, Associate Professor of Political Science, San Francisco State University; Anni Chung, President and CEO, Self-Help for the...

아직도 효과가 불확실한 샌프란시스코의 선호결정투표제

From left to right: Professor Jason McDaniel, Associate Professor of Political Science, San Francisco State University; Anni Chung, President and CEO, Self-Help for the...

AÚN NO HAY ACUERDO SOBRE LA VOTACIÓN POR ELECCIÓN CLASIFICADA DE SAN FRANCISCO

From left to right: Professor Jason McDaniel, Associate Professor of Political Science, San Francisco State University; Anni Chung, President and CEO, Self-Help for the...

JURY STILL OUT ON SAN FRANCISCO’S RANKED CHOICE VOTING

From left to right: Professor Jason McDaniel, Associate Professor of Political Science, San Francisco State University; Anni Chung, President and CEO, Self-Help for the...

Where Breathing is Easy – Open Spaces are Critical for Public Health

Measure T seeks to renew Measure Q, which has allowed the County to preserve North Coyote Valley from the hands of developers.

WHO’S REALLY PAYING FOR THAT $10 UBER RIDE? SURPRISE: IT’S YOUR DRIVER

From left to right: Dr. Veena Dubal, Professor of Law at the U.C. Hastings School of Law. Dr. Dubal; Dr. Alexandrea Ravenelle, Professor in...

對全球低收入民眾而言 氣候變遷是新冠疫情的追熱導彈

From left to right: Dr. Anthony LeRoy Westerling, Professor of Management of Complex Systems, UC Merced; Dr. Rajendra Shende, Chairman of TERRE Policy Centre...

Climate Change is the Heat-Seeking Missile of Covid Pandemic for Low Income People Around the World

From left to right: Dr. Anthony LeRoy Westerling, Professor of Management of Complex Systems, UC Merced; Dr. Rajendra Shende, Chairman of TERRE Policy Centre...

ASIAN AMERIAN VOTERS SUPPORT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BUT UNDECIDED ON CALIFORNIA’S PROP 16

From left to right: Vincent Pan, Executive Director, Chinese for Affirmative Action, a community based social justice organization in San Francisco; Eva Paterson, President...

AAPI VOTERS DIVIDED ON PRESIDENTIAL SUPPORT

By SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS Contributing Editor Almost half of Vietnamese Americans will vote to re-elect President Donald Trump Nov. 3, while two-thirds of Indian Americans will...

Deadline Approaches for Registration of U.S. Citizens Wanting to Vote from Abroad

By SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS Contributing Editor U.S. citizens residing outside the country can vote in the November general election, but must request a ballot by Sept....

RACIAL JUSTICE CAN ONLY BEGIN WHEN POLICE DEPARTMENTS REFLECT THE COMMUNITIES THEY SERVE

From left to right: Dr. Dorothy Johnson-Speight, Founder and National Executive Director, Mothers In Charge,Inc.; Michael German, Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice, Liberty and...

14 MILLION U.S. CHILDREN WILL GO HUNGRY THIS WEEK

By SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS Contributing Editor The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically heightened ongoing food insecurity: 14 million U.S. children will go hungry in any given week,...

11TH HOUR SAVE FOR CALIFORNIA RENTERS FACING EVICTION IS NOT PERMANENT SOLUTION: ASSEMBLYMAN DAVID CHIU

CA Assembly Member David Chiu By SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS Contributing Editor SACRAMENTO — AB 3088, an emergency bill to stave off evictions for 4.3 million California renters,...

WITHOUT ART, THE STARK REALITIES OF COVID WOULD MAKE THE WORLD UNBEARABLE

Comedienne Kristina Wong, star of the one-woman show “Kristina Wong for Public Office,” is one of the newly unemployed out of the 5 million...

16.6 MILLION PEOPLE OF COLOR, PURGED FROM STATE ROSTERS, WILL NOT BE ABLE TO VOTE IN NOVEMBER

Clockwise from top left: Nathaniel Persily, Healthy Elections Project, Stanford University; Karthick Radakrishnan, Founder and Director, AAPI Data; Andrea Miller, Founder, Reclaim Our Vote;...

Why is the U.S. Lagging Behind the World in Managing COVID?

The U.S. leads the world in both COVID infections and mortality rates. 5.3 million U.S. residents have been infected, while more than 167,000 have died.

TRUMP ESCALATES WAR ON IMMIGRANTS AMIDST WORSENING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

From left to right: Kalpana Peddibhotla, Mathews Peddibhotla Law Group; Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec, National Immigration Law Center; and Sarah Pierce, Migration Policy Institute (All...

科技大企業因疫情獲利數十億 他們有縮小學生數位鴻溝的責任

Clockwise from top left: Pedro Noguera, Dean, USC Rossier School of Education; Shaun R. Harper, Executive Director of the USC Race and Equity Center;...
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How an LA Homelessness Frontline Veteran Is Caring for the Caretakers

When Celina Alvarez took the reins at Housing Works of California, her first step was to revisit its motto: "Do whatever it takes for as long as it takes."

From Oil Shock to Checkout Lines: US–Iran War Drives Global Spike in Consumer Costs

Just Live | The US-Iran war is driving oil price spikes and global supply chain disruptions, raising costs for fuel, food, and goods. Experts examine war-driven inflation, economic risks, and potential solutions.

In Hungary Elections, Magyar Won While Orbán Was Saved

Viktor Orbán did not relinquish power after losing elections in Hungary because he could not hold on to it, but because in the long run he gains from it.

Los Angeles Proposes First Streetlight Fee Increase in 30 Years

A staff of 185 employees are responsible for maintaining a system that includes about 220,000 lights and spans two-thirds of the city’s 470 square miles.