YAKIMA, Wash. — Tracy Renecker has been working almost nonstop since the coronavirus pandemic set in. A kitchen manager with the 16,000-student school district serving this central Washington city, Renecker has been ordering ingredients, packing entrees and sides, and filling grocery sacks to build the five-breakfast, five-lunch kits passed out at the drive-up distribution point […]
Author Archives: Levi Pulkkinen
Levi Pulkkinen is an independent journalist based in Seattle. His work has appeared in The Guardian, U.S. News & World Report and a host of regional publications, including The San Francisco Chronicle, Crosscut and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, where he served as senior editor. His work has received top regional honors in most news reporting categories considered by the Society of Professional Journalists. A product of Washington's public schools and Western Washington University, Pulkkinen grew up surrounded by educators; his mother helped students as a school social worker while his father, a union organizer by training, represented teachers and paraeducators at the bargaining table.