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Melissa Montalvo

Melissa covers childhood poverty in the central San Joaquin Valley for The Fresno Bee in partnership with CalMatters' California Divide project. She is a Report for America corps member. Montalvo, a bilingual reporter, covered the food and agriculture industries, Indigenous issues, and Mexican American culture as a freelancer, with bylines in Civil Eats, L.A. Taco, and more.

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Anthony Torres loads a vehicle with food at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank at Franklin D. Roosevelt Park in Los Angeles on March 23, 2021. Photo by Mike Blake, REUTERS
A farmworker works on land irrigated by sprinklers in El Centro on May 29, 2020. REUTERS/Bing Guan
Immigrant rights activists participate in a protest in Los Angeles on July 1, 2019. Photo by Ronen Tivony/Sipa via AP Images
A farm worker puts grapes inside of plastic bags in Teviston on Oct. 21, 2021. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith
Councilmember Miguel Arias and Fresno code enforcement and police officers on Thursday inspected a homeless camp near Highway 99 to prepare for abatement before school resumes in three weeks. Photo by John Walker/The Fresno Bee