San Francisco has more than 200,000 residents who rely on Medi-Cal, California’s public health insurance for low-income residents. City officials say at least 25,000 of them could lose coverage in the next year and a half. Mayor Daniel Lurie and other local leaders have known this was coming ever since Republicans in Congress passed HR […]
Taylor Barton
Taylor Barton is a staff writer at The Frisc supported by the California Local Newsroom Fellowship. She is passionate about covering education, public health, public safety, and the overlap between these topics. Taylor’s work has been supported by UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program and Climate Equity Reporting Project. Before journalism Taylor was an actor, a sexual assault prevention educator for the military, helped run a soup kitchen in Chicago, and led media relations for a former U.S. ambassador to NATO.


