Megan Jamerson

Megan Jamerson

KCRW Staff

Contact: megan.jamerson@kcrw.org

Megan Jamerson is a reporter from Southern California, covering small business, entrepreneurship, labor, and the workplace for KCRW. She's reported on environmental justice, elections and wildfires for NPR, the warehouse and logistics industry for KVCR in San Bernardino, and science and technology for WUOT in Knoxville, TN. She also has written about the environment for Southern California News Group and Southerly magazine. When she’s not reporting, she’s hiking and eating her way through greater LA.

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Tanya Reyes is an LAUSD teacher who's earning more money than her family did when she was growing up. But still finds herself struggling financially.

‘Making it’ is having each other: An LAUSD teacher’s story

Tanya Reyes is an LAUSD teacher who's earning more money than her family did when she was growing up. But still finds herself struggling financially.

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Workers at Margot and Juliet, two upscale Culver City restaurants owned by Rohan Talwar of IB Hospitality, say their paychecks have been bouncing all year.

Staff at 2 popular Culver City eateries say they aren’t getting paid on time

Workers at Margot and Juliet, two upscale Culver City restaurants owned by Rohan Talwar of IB Hospitality, say their paychecks have been bouncing all year.

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California could lead the nation with a bill that would open up on-campus jobs at public universities and colleges to the state’s 60,000 undocumented students.

California’s undocumented undergrads want on-campus jobs

California could lead the nation with a bill that would open up on-campus jobs at public universities and colleges to the state’s 60,000 undocumented students.

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