Olivia Cruz Mayeda is a features writer and videographer. She documents stories about culture, art and the internet.

Olivia has worked at the San Francisco Chronicle and NPR’s affiliate in the city. She studied history at Brown University, where she learned filmmaking, creative writing and longform journalism. Her writing about abortion won first place at the San Francisco Press Club Awards.

She forages sea urchins on the coast in winter.


olivia.mayeda@gmail.com