Venise Wagner is a professor of journalism at San Francisco State University. Before her appointment, she worked as a journalist for a variety of California daily newspapers, covering border issues, religion and ethics, education, and the Bay Area’s Black communities. She is the co-author and co-editor of Reporting Inequality: Tools and Methods for Covering Race and Ethnicity. At Mesa, she worked on Anatomy of My Past, a family memoir engaging investigative reporting techniques and genealogy tools to reveal structural racism’s percussive impact on her family over five generations – from those who were enslaved to the present. You can learn more about Venise here.