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Karen Lowe

Karen Lowe is a city reporter at City on a Hill Press. Beginning her career as a fact-checker, she gained a passion for asking questions and getting stories right. She believes using facts is a key part in supplementing the human voice. Since her time as a fact-checker, she has worked as a campus reporter and editor—reading, talking and asking questions to uncover stories hidden in the community—social media editor and arts and culture reporter. You can view her work here or on her website at karenkayelowe.com . She can be contacted at klowe@cityonahillpress.com and followed on Twitter @karenkayelowe.
Arts & Culture

Bayanihan Hosts Fall Reception 

“Ube or mango?” shouted Mikki Lim, interrupting the buzz of about a hundred students orbiting the ground floor of Porter College’s Dining Hall.  With co-chairs Deanne Presas and Louisa Ou, Lim organizes Bayanihan’s Pilipino Cultural Celebration (PCC). Together, they called on the sea of attendees...
Karen Lowe, November 8, 2019 4 min read  

Forging Communities Through Art 

As the Santa Cruz Open Studios director, Ann Ostermann has amassed an impressive collection of work from Open Studios artists. “Open Studios” is an annual event that spans the first three weekends of October. An independent panel accepts applications from hundreds of local artists. Then,...
Karen Lowe, October 19, 2019 4 min read  
Columns

I Am Not a Doll 

There is a difference between giving someone a compliment and exoticizing them. When people use “cute” at an inappropriate time, it can change a seemingly innocuous phrase into a backhanded slap. It’s an emotional hit that leaves a memory like a stain. For me, it was...
Karen Lowe, April 19, 2019 3 min read  
Campus

Privatization Spreads to Child Care 

UC Santa Cruz student Alyssa Tamboura stood with her 8 year-old son at the UC Regents meeting Wednesday. The pair traveled over 300 miles to deliver a two minute message. “The regents are leaders of the University of California. You don’t need an 8-year-old to...
Karen Lowe, March 18, 2019 5 min read  
Campus

Q&A with Blumenthal and Tromp 

During Student Media’s quarterly Q&A session with UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal and Campus Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor Marlene Tromp, City on a Hill Press asked questions ranging from student housing to the UC’s balance of scientific research and indigenous rights on Hawai’i’s Big Island. ...
Karen Lowe, March 1, 2019 4 min read  
Campus

Questions? Ask Your UC-AFT Librarian 

After four months without a contract and more than nine rallies across UC campuses, UC librarians remain in a tentative position. UC officials and the University Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT), the union that represents UC’s more than 300 librarians, met Tuesday at UC Davis...
Karen Lowe, January 17, 2019 3 min read  

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