Naomi Ishisaka is The Seattle Times’ assistant managing editor for diversity, inclusion and staff development. Her column on race, culture, equity and social justice appears weekly on Mondays.
Pediatrician, professor and community leader Dr. Ben Danielson will lead a new UW program to bring "uncommon partners" together to come up with creative solutions...
The contrast between the attention and coverage of the Gabby Petito case and missing and murdered Indigenous people shows the lengths we have to go...
Trans and gender diverse people are poorly served by existing systems and thus at greater risk of homelessness, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes. Here's how the...
A Texas anti-abortion law, which the U.S. Supreme Court allowed to stand, not only effectively turns everyday citizens into bounty hunters, but also disproportionately affects...
Opponents of critical race theory in the classroom are showing no signs of slowing down, but anti-racist educators are pushing back, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.
With the eyes of the world on Afghanistan, Navid Hamidi, the head of Kent-based Afghan Health Initiative, fears for his family’s safety and the future...
It is frustrating that our progress on fighting COVID-19 has been set back by those who refuse to get vaccinated, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes. As...
Farmworkers are toiling in increasingly dangerous conditions in our warming climate and the life expectancy for farmworkers is just 49 years. It doesn't have to...
When President Joe Biden and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky say we are in a "pandemic of the unvaccinated," they ignore the real barriers to vaccine...
Richard Sherman's arrest last week and Naomi Osaka's decision to not attend press conferences — as well as the reactions to those cases — highlight...
