The mayor's race in Oakland, Calif., pits tech money against union support in a battle over who gets to call themselves progressive in a city of mostly Democratic voters.
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Sandhya Dirks
Sandhya Dirks is the race and equity reporter at KQED and the lead producer of On Our Watch, a new podcast from NPR and KQED about the shadow world of police discipline. She approaches race and equity not as a beat, but as a fundamental lens for all investigative and explanatory reporting.
