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Maggie Miles has been a contributor to The New York Times, BBC, MSN, and many other media outlets. She has focused on topics ranging from workplace corruption and gun violence to travel features and in-depth profiles of notable people and businesses.

Grace Peng serves as natural resources director for the League of Women Voters of Los Angeles County. She is an interdisciplinary scientist with a doctorate in chemical physics.

Kendall is editor and co-founder of The Palm Desert Post, a lifelong Coachella Valley resident, and former producer at NBC Palm Springs. In 2024, she was honored as one of the rising stars of local news by the Coachella Valley Journalism Foundation.

Erin Rode is a freelance journalist based in and from Southern California, where she covers housing, homelessness, the environment and climate change.

Stories with a staff byline are written or edited by a member of the Palm Desert Post staff and are generally shorter or less complex than our more thorough stories.

826 Valencia is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting under-resourced students with their creative and expository writing skills. Work by students at the Tenderloin Center will occasionally be shared in the Tenderloin Voice.