Laura A. Zink is a writer from Oakland, California. She is a former Steinbeck Fellow, an English teacher, and an organizer of the Oakland literary festival, Beast Crawl. For the summer, she will be the Editor-in-Chief at Street Spirit.
Laura A. Zink
In Dialogue with Andrea Henson: Why I chained myself to a fence to defend my clients
Andrea Henson, Executive Director of Where Do We Go, chained herself to the property before Caltrans arrived, and they arrested her for it. Even though, Andrea argues, Caltrans was the one breaking the law.
A note on our August 2024 cover
Which Bay Area cities will use a Fairyland excuse? Will yours? We’ll have to keep watching to find out.
Local leaders first impressions of SCOTUS ruling on homelessness
"Sweeps are a war of attrition. But it’s becoming even more of just a straight up battlefield."
Introducing interim Street Spirit Editor Laura A. Zink
"If all of us tell our stories, they’ll see, and we’ll see, that there’s more of us than there are of them."