Our Mission
- To provide essential health equity news to communities in the Central Valley and across California.
- To engage with residents, journalists, decision-makers, and other stakeholders around impactful reporting that serves communities.
- To provide editorial support, expanded publication and broadcast opportunities, and training that bolsters local reporting and multi-platform journalism.
About Us
Launched in January 2024 as a beat-focused reporting lab within the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative, The Intersection works with local newsrooms to produce essential health equity reporting.
We are committed to strengthening community journalism and collaborating to increase reporting capacity, expand news distribution, and help journalists to do their most impactful work.
Our Beliefs
Health equity means a fair opportunity for all people to live their healthiest lives.
Access to quality health information is vital for individuals and communities to nurture, protect, and advocate for their own health.
Our name expresses our belief that journalism thrives at the intersection of diverse perspectives, experiences, cultures, and stories.
Our Key Coverage Areas
- Air quality
- California health policy
- Child welfare
- Climate change and health
- Disabilities and health
- Health care for DACA recipients
- Health behind bars
- Health in BIPOC communities
- Homelessness
- Immigration
- Hospitals
- LGBTQ+ health
- Mental health
- Migrant health care
- Nonprofit accountability
- Pesticides
- Reproductive health
- Special education
- Youth mental health
Our Team
Trey Bundy
Managing Editor
Trey Bundy is managing editor of The Intersection. After beginning his career at the San Francisco Chronicle, he joined The Bay Citizen, where he covered child welfare, juvenile justice, education, and crime.
He spent ten years as a reporter and producer at The Center for Investigative Reporting, where he produced episodes of the weekly public radio show Reveal, and documentaries for television and streaming. His work also has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and the PBS NewsHour.
Bundy has won three awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the national Hearst Journalism Award for article of the year. In 2014, he was nominated for a national Emmy for his piece about juvenile solitary confinement. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from San Francisco State University, where he has also taught advanced writing and reporting.
Marijke Rowland
Senior Health Equity Reporter – Mental Health
Marijke Rowland is a senior writer covering health equity and mental health in the Modesto and Stockton areas for The Intersection.
She has spent the past 26 reporting on the valley for The Modesto Bee and The McClatchy Company. A graduate of Indiana University’s School of Journalism and alumni of the Poynter Journalism Fellowship, Rowland moved from the Midwest to California in 1997.
She has spent most of her career covering the valley’s intertwined worlds of food, business, and entertainment. During her tenure with The Bee, she has also delved into coverage of LGBTQ+ rights, diversity and inclusion issues, and workplace safety.
Her award-winning work has garnered multiple honors through the years, including three first-place honors from the California News Publishers Association for coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.
She is excited to continue covering the valley and providing vital news to the region.
Vivienne Aguilar
Health Equity Reporter
Vivienne Aguilar reports for The Intersection in the Stockton/Modesto area.
Since beginning her career at San Joaquin Delta College’s student newspaper, she has covered news throughout the valley.
She’s written for The Calaveras Enterprise, Lodi News Sentinel, Sacramento and Modesto Bee, and Stocktonia News Service.
Aguilar’s collegiate enterprise news reporting received honors from the California News Publishers Association and George F. Gruner Awards. More recently, CNPA honored her professional work on youth and education.
Tim Sheehan
Health Care Reporting Fellow
Tim Sheehan is the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative’s Health Care Reporting Fellow, covering issues of health access, equity and more across the San Joaquin Valley.
He is a lifelong resident of Madera and Fresno counties, and his professional journalism career spans almost 40 years as an editor and reporter in the region.
Sheehan earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism at California State University – Fresno, and a master’s degree in leadership studies at Fresno Pacific University.
Before joining CVJC, he spent 27 years at The Fresno Bee, reporting on issues ranging from transportation and agriculture to local government and public health. His work has been recognized with numerous regional, state and national journalism awards, including multiple honors from the California News Publishers Association and the National Newspaper Association; a McClatchy President’s Award as part of team coverage of Yosemite’s 150th anniversary; and from the Center for California Studies for his work covering California’s high-speed rail project.
In addition to his work in journalism, Sheehan teaches journalism and communications classes at Fresno Pacific University and the State Center Community College District (Fresno City College and Clovis Community College).
He and his wife, Linda, live in Fresno. They enjoy traveling, cooking and curling up to relax with Ozzy, their miniature Dachshund.
Our Funding
The Intersection is a project of the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative. Launched by the James B. McClatchy Foundation in 2021, the CVJC is a nonprofit infrastructure dedicated to supporting public service journalism.
This project is possible in partnership with the following philanthropic partners:
- California Health Care Foundation
- Heising-Simons Foundation
- The James Irvine Foundation
Learn more here.
Our Partners
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