California Local News Fellow

Alonso Daboub is a bilingual reporter focused on climate, health, neuroscience and psychology. He joins Santa Cruz Local as a UC Berkeley California Local News Fellow and is a general assignment reporter. His work has appeared in NPR, KQED, Science News, Eos, Mongabay and The Stanford Report. When he’s not reporting, he’s outdoors surfing, snowboarding and hiking.

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