text: Audrey Brown (they/them) covers environmental health equity and corporate accountability in the Bay Area for the San Francisco Public Press. Prior to joining Report for America, Brown covered environmental equity for the Bay Area climate news magazine KneeDeep Times. This followed a stint at the San Francisco Chronicle, where Brown worked on SFNext, a civic engagement initiative, covering a range of city issues spanning homelessness, digital inequity, and downtown recovery. Brown is a 2022 graduate of Columbia Journalism School. They grew up in San Francisco and still call the city home.
  Beat: Environmental health equity and corporate accountability in the San Francisco Bay Area
  Environmental health equity and corporate accountability are critical issues concerning low-income communities of color in the San Francisco Bay Area. Air quality, exposure to toxins, municipal wastewater handling and other environmental health issues disproportionately affect those communities due to proximity to highways, ports and factories. Using data-driven investigative reporting, this reporter offers a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the challenges surrounding environmental health in underserved communities.