Celeste Hamilton Dennis

Paddling Out With California’s Older Women Surfers

Throughout the state, women over 50 are proving that stoke has no age limit

San Diego Magazine

Celeste Hamilton Dennis
Paddling Out With California’s Older Women Surfers

Serious About Gender Exploration? There's a Doula for That.

Just like birth doulas, gender doulas support people at all stages of their gender journey.

YES! Magazine and Reasons to be Cheerful

Serious About Gender Exploration? There's a Doula for That.
Celeste Hamilton Dennis

Counselors help seniors clean up, avoid eviction

Seniors can be evicted due to unsafe clutter. A San Francisco program is helping them clean up and stay housed.

San Francisco Chronicle

Celeste Hamilton Dennis
Counselors help seniors clean up, avoid eviction
Celeste Hamilton Dennis

A tribute to the Pointer Sisters

The Pointer Sisters were four women from Oakland whose songs were everywhere in the 70s and 80s. Reporter Celeste Hamilton Dennis brings us a story about why the love for the Pointer Sisters is still going strong today.

KALW

Celeste Hamilton Dennis
A tribute to the Pointer Sisters
Celeste Hamilton Dennis

Undocutherapists Serve Those in the Shadows

Undocumented people who want to become therapists and care for the mental health needs of their community face many obstacles. But in California, it’s at least possible.

MindSite News and palabra

Celeste Hamilton Dennis
Undocutherapists Serve Those in the Shadows
Celeste Hamilton Dennis

East Oakland memorial honors victims of Jonestown massacre

Jonestown survivor John Cobb has tended the monument at Evergreen Cemetery for over a decade. He hopes more people will visit.

Oaklandside

Celeste Hamilton Dennis
East Oakland memorial honors victims of Jonestown massacre
Celeste Hamilton Dennis

'She Made Me Feel Seen and Heard.' Black Doulas Offer Support

Many Black women say their pregnancy-related concerns are dismissed by doctors, undermining their mental health and contributing to higher death rates. Doulas aim to change all that.

MindSite News, USA Today, and Capital B

Celeste Hamilton Dennis
'She Made Me Feel Seen and Heard.' Black Doulas Offer Support

At this East Oakland salon, violence prevention starts with self-care

Hair stylists are often a shoulder to cry on for their clients. The Self-i.s.h. Society is taking it further by offering onsite therapy, healing circles, massage, and more.

Oaklandside

At this East Oakland salon, violence prevention starts with self-care

The Dental-Mental Connection: A Clinic in Oakland’s Chinatown Brings Mental Health Care to Dental Patients

Dentistry and the medical profession have long been siloed. But eight years ago, Asian Health Services in Oakland pioneered a new practice: screening dental patients for depression.

Mindsite News and Oaklandside

The Dental-Mental Connection: A Clinic in Oakland’s Chinatown Brings Mental Health Care to Dental Patients

Making churches more welcoming for members with dementia: ‘ We don’t want them to think they’re forgotten.’

Peters Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Columbus partners with Alter, a nurse-led program in Atlanta, to help support church members living with dementia.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Making churches more welcoming for members with dementia: ‘ We don’t want them to think they’re forgotten.’

A day in the life of an Oakland Chinatown community ambassador

Sakhone Lasaphangthong spent 20 years in state prison. Now he’s helping to increase public safety in the neighborhood through a nonprofit, Family Bridges.

Oaklandside

A day in the life of an Oakland Chinatown community ambassador
Celeste Hamilton Dennis

Volunteer chefs keep Oakland’s pandemic-era free fridges full of hearty meals

“Everyone deserves a well-cooked meal”: Community Kitchens’ volunteers stock town fridges with love.

Oaklandside

Celeste Hamilton Dennis
Volunteer chefs keep Oakland’s pandemic-era free fridges full of hearty meals
Celeste Hamilton Dennis

Mobile history project connects neighbors in North Oakland

Led by longtime residents, the project is helping to bridge the past and present in one of Oakland’s most quickly changing areas.

Oaklandside

Celeste Hamilton Dennis
Mobile history project connects neighbors in North Oakland
Celeste Hamilton Dennis

What Happens When Essential Workers Need Childcare

Many essential workers are parents, too. So as the child care crisis continues, community activists are finding creative ways to support them.

YES! Magazine

Celeste Hamilton Dennis
What Happens When Essential Workers Need Childcare

19 Volunteers Sharing an iPhone Are Trying to Support Incarcerated People Through COVID-19

A LGBT organization runs a hotline to help their community during COVID lockdowns.

Talk Poverty

19 Volunteers Sharing an iPhone Are Trying to Support Incarcerated People Through COVID-19

In Austin, ConnectATX Makes COVID-19 Resources Easy to Find

A new directory puts a focus on a networked response for a person's entire set of needs.

NextCity

In Austin, ConnectATX Makes COVID-19 Resources Easy to Find

Those Who Leave and Those Who Are Left

Guyanese-American curator Grace Aneiza Ali talks about her exhibition Liminal Space at Harlem’s Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in 2017, in which artists from Guyana and its Diaspora explore migration.

Contemporary And Magazine

Those Who Leave and Those Who Are Left
Celeste Hamilton Dennis

How a Stock Photography Project Is Confronting Fat Bias

For people whose bodies are often the target of public scrutiny, representation in something as simple as a stock photo can be revolutionary.

YES! Magazine

Celeste Hamilton Dennis
How a Stock Photography Project Is Confronting Fat Bias
Celeste Hamilton Dennis

The Unlikely Style Icon Teaching Older Women to Be Fashion Rebels

Judith Rizzio has spent a lifetime on the frontlines of feminism. She thinks there’s nothing more radical than women of a certain age declaring fashion is for them, too.

Narratively

Celeste Hamilton Dennis
The Unlikely Style Icon Teaching Older Women to Be Fashion Rebels

The Ms. Q&A: How Curator Grace Aneiza Ali is Reimagining “Women’s Work”

Ms. spoke with Ali about the importance of art and language in shaping how we think—and why “women’s work” should be expanded to include acts of resistance.

Ms. Magazine

The Ms. Q&A: How Curator Grace Aneiza Ali is Reimagining “Women’s Work”