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Amanda Font

KQED Contributor

Amanda Font is a producer on The Latest podcast, and the host and co-producer of the series Audible Cosmos. She has previously worked as a producer and reporter on the Bay Curious podcast, and director of The California Report Magazine. She grew up in the deserts of Southern California and moved north for the trees. Amanda earned a B.A. from the BECA program at San Francisco State, where she worked in the university's radio station. Amanda Font is represented by SAG-AFTRA.

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How Fernet-Branca Became San Francisco's Favorite Spirit

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How the Black Panthers Shaped U.S. Schools

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How Often Should Wild Lands Burn to Stay Healthy?

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Proposition 36 Would Increase Penalties for Some Drug and Theft Crimes

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Should Proposition 35 Make a Tax to Help Fund Medi-Cal Permanently and Limit How the Money Is Used?

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Proposition 34 Limits How Prescription Drug Revenue Can Be Spent By Certain Providers

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Two young people hold signs saying "honk if your rent is too high" and "we deserve housing" at a rally.

Proposition 33 Would End State Limits on Rent Control

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Proposition 32 Raises the Minimum Wage to $18 an Hour

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Proposition 6 Would Abolish Involuntary Servitude in Prisons

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