Articles, Editorials, Op-Eds
- Prop 1’s Success Hinges on California Clearing the ‘Human Logjam’ In Its Mental Health System (CalMatters)
- California’s Conservatorships: Why Britney Spears and Not the Most Vulnerable (Columbia University Press Blog)
- California Needs New Rules as it Forces More Mentally Ill People Into Treatment (Los Angeles Times)
- Forcing Homeless People Into Treatment Can Backfire. What About a Firm Nudge? (with Neil Gong – Washington Post)
- Round and Round We Go: The Way Services Work for People Who Are Homeless (Generations Today)
- An alternative to forced treatment (SF Chronicle)
- Free Britney, But Also Reform California’s Conservatorship Laws (Sacramento Bee)
- Reform with Care: Expanding Mental Health Conservatorships in California (with Neil Gong – Scholars Strategy Network)
- Save San Francisco’s board-and-care homes – then fix them (with Neil Gong – SF Chronicle)
- CA Threatens to Turn Back the Clock on Mental Health Care” (The Street Sheet)
- On freegans, pre-peeled oranges, and ethical consumer ‘Whack-A-Mole’ (University of Minnesota Press)
- Keep it Contentious (Berkeley Journal of Sociology)
- Grade Deflation: Maybe Unfair, Probably Just (Princeton Alumni Weekly)
- In Support of the Occupiers (Princeton Alumni Weekly)
Coverage for “Conservatorship”
- Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care (Viva La Evolution)
- Conservatorship with Alex Barnard (Unapologetically Black Unicorns)
- Equity and Civil Commitment (Southern California Psychiatrist)
- The Long History of Conservatorships (No Jargon)
- Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness (Heart Forward)
- A New Book Explains How Mental Health Care Fails in California (City Journal)
- How Can California Improve Its Conservatorship System? New Book Argues the State Must Step Up (AirTalk with Larry Mantle)
- Making Sense of California’s Conservatorship System (Heart Forward Podcast)
Media Appearances: Mental Health
- New California Law Placing Unhoused Individuals with Addictions in Conservatorships Faces Questions (ABA Journal)
- With Prop 1 passage, Gavin Newsom again changes how Californians with mental illness get help (CalMatters)
- California Proposition 1 passes, requiring counties to spend on programs to tackle homelessness (KTVU)
- On California’s Ballot: Housing’s Role in Addressing Mental Illness (Christian Science Monitor)
- California’s Proposition 1 Could Be an Improvement if More Reforms Follow (Orange County Register)
- Why Homeless People in LA Are Left with Few Options (NBC-4 LA)
- Mental Health Treatment Crisis in California (NBC-4 LA)
- America Wrestles with How to Treat Mental Illness (The Economist)
- California is Reinventing How It Deals with Mental Illness. Now the Locals Have to Make It Work (LA Times)
- Some Homeless People Won’t Go to Shelters. Should They Be Left Outside? (Vox)
- Can CARE Courts Ease California’s Homelessness Crisis? (CalMatters)
- He Was Handcuffed and Hospitalized. Now He’s on Track for Housing (NY Times)
- Will New Legislation Help Those With Mental Illness? (LA Times)
- CARE Courts Will Start in the Fall. What to Expect (KCRW)
- California Wants More Psychiatric Detentions. That’s Unlike to Improve Anyone’s Mental Health (LA Times)
- If New York Can Force Homeless People Into Treatment, Should LA Do the Same? (KNX)
- Is Forced Treatment Ever Humane? (The Economist)
- New York Will Treat More Mentally Ill People Against Their Will. Should California Follow? (LA Times)
- CARE Courts Aim to Help People Living with Severe Mental Illness (LAist)
- People with Severe Mental Illness Languish Untreated in Jails (SF Standard)
- More San Diegans Could Enter Conservatorships. But the System is Already Struggling (inewsource)
- San Francisco’s Mental Health System Fails Two Men (SF Chronicle)
- The Toll of One Man’s Mental Illness (LA Times)
- California is Fighting to Make It Easier to Put People Onto Conservatorships (Slate)
- Drug Users are Being Sentenced to Forced Rehab (VICE)
- After Britney Spears’ Plea, a New Look at Conservatorship (The 19th)
- The Britney Effect: How California is Grappling with Conservatorship (CalMatters)
Media Appearances: Freeganism and Food Waste
- Who Can Afford Free Food? (Modern Farmer)
- What’s in the Dumpster (Tiny Spark)
- How to Fix All That Food Waste (Good Magazine)
- Freeganism: Food Waste’s First Wave (The New Food Economy)
- Freegans and What Is Waste (Wisconsin Public Radio)
- America Wastes Insane Amounts of Food (Alternet)
- Whole Foods is Embracing the Freegan Ethic (Timeline)
- Going to Waste (KPFA)
- Gaspillage alimentaire (France 24)
- Freegans: Driven to dumpster dive not by poverty, but by environmental politics (California Magazine)
- Berkeley Students Set to Strike (Russian TV)
- A Dumpster-based lifestyle (Princeton Alumni Weekly)
- Taking the Freegan plunge (Trenton Times)
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