Data reporter
Harriet Blair Rowan
Harriet Blair Rowan is a Bay Area News Group data reporter for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. Rowan received her master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She previously did investigative research and data reporting for Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting, and Kaiser Health News. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a BA degree in Latin American studies.
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Language: Spanish
Affiliation: Investigative Reporters and Editors
Expertise: Health, COVID, education, police data
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Watch: How the largest immigrant communities have shifted in the U.S., California and Bay Area
In these interactive charts watch how immigrant populations from different countries have changed since 2010, according to annual estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
Bay Area masking up again as mandates go into effect Nov. 1 in health care settings
Alameda, San Mateo, Contra Costa, and Sonoma counties will require health care workers to mask in patient care areas starting Wednesday, and everyone in Santa Clara County will be required...
San Francisco protest calling for ceasefire in Gaza shuts down US 101 Central Freeway
CHP spokesman Mark Andrews said the protesters are on a quarter mile stretch of US 101, both north and southbound, between South Van Ness/Mission St. exit and Octavia Street.
Cal-USC football game delayed by protest calling for reinstatement of UC Berkeley professor
The football players waited on the sidelines while 15 students -- all dressed in white t-shirts that read āJUSTICE 4 IVONNEā -- locked arms, showing support for a professor currently...
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How big is Bay Area boom in India-born residents? Together, they’d rank as the region’s fourth-largest city
The impact of the influx is showing up in simple and symbolic ways, especially along the southern end of San Francisco Bay, from Sunnyvale down to Milpitas, over to Fremont...
CDC Director Mandy Cohen visits Bay Area COVID vaccine clinic
Uptake has been slow but rollout has been bumpy for the new COVID vaccines, but that shouldn't deter people, especially seniors, from getting a shot. "You should not be paying...
“You’re not free to leave”: A San Jose police officer beat a jaywalking suspect who failed to follow his orders. Should he have walked away instead?
The scene was a nearly empty Sunol Street near the intersection with West San Carlos Street.
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“Watch this guys”: San Jose police encouraged residents of a homeless camp to observe as they beat a mentally ill man
The scene was an encampment near the Guadalupe River where two officers decided to corral residents for "trespassing."
“Shoot me!”: Thompson Nguyen asked police to kill him. Could they have done something different?
The scene was a South San Jose power plant where police responded to a report of an armed man breaking in.
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Losing control: When San Jose police confront people in mental health crisis, why do they end up hurting them so often?
A first-of-its-kind investigation finds that a huge proportion of the people officers beat, tase, shoot or kill are mentally ill or intoxicated.