Steven Rascón (he/they) is a production assistant for Reveal. He is pursuing a master's degree at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism with a Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy Fellowship. His focus is investigative reporting and audio documentary. He has written for online, magazines and radio. His reporting on underreported fentanyl overdoses in Los Angeles' LGBTQ community aired on KCRW and KQED. Rascón is passionate about telling diverse stories for radio through community engagement. He holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in theater arts and creative writing.
On a vast plantation in the Dominican Republic, Haitian migrants still use machetes to harvest sugarcane that’s exported to the U.S. The workers are protesting poor working and living conditions.
As sea levels rise, two communities in Nigeria are adapting in radically different ways.
New developments in Mexico’s investigation into the disappearance of 43 college students are making headlines, and also ruffling feathers.
Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War – a racist system known as convict leasing.
The group True the Vote has collected millions off spreading “the big lie” that the 2020 election was stolen by voter fraud.
“Do you recognize the Taliban?” The U.S. government, other countries and individual Afghans grapple with the question that will determine Afghanistan’s future.
There may be 1,700 suspected war criminals and human rights abusers in the U.S. Who are they, and what is the government doing about it?
In the decade since George Zimmerman killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida, stand your ground laws have expanded across the nation. And with them come more homicides.
Bitcoin uses enormous amounts of power, and it’s heating up the planet.
Baseball’s home run surge in the late ’90s and early 2000s was fueled by anabolic steroids. But fans didn’t want to hear the difficult truth about their heroes – and Major League Baseball refused to deal with a growing scandal.
