Montserrat Mendez, a Los Altos High School juniors, cheers during a protest against government inaction on addressing climate change at the intersection of El Camino Real and San Antonio Road in Mountain View, California, on March 15, 2019. Photo by Magali Gauthier
Hillview Middle School eighth-grader and Menlo Park resident Jesse Love has been racing competitively since he was 5 years old and has already won a number of awards. Jesse keeps his large collection of medals and trophies at his dad's office in Redwood City, California.
Art teacher Cristina Velazquez looks over her students’ work at Gabriela Mistral Elementary School in Mountain View, California, on Dec. 6, 2018.
The line for public comment snakes through the second floor of City Hall during the council meeting on March 5.
Over 130 people spoke to the council over the course of nearly four and a half hours. The deeply divided crowd at the meeting advocated for either leaving Mountain View’s retail cannabis laws untouched or killing the whole the ordinance.
In October, the City Council voted to allow pot businesses to open in the city, laying out a lengthy process in which businesses could apply for conditional use permits.
Ken Joye, a member of the Palo Alto Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee, asks City Project Manager Elizabeth Ames whether it would be possible to collect data on how many people use a planned pedestrian and bike bridge at Adobe Creek in Palo Alto, California, on Dec. 17, 2018.
A man watches a game of pick-up basketball in Venice, California, on Aug. 21, 2018.
A smoky haze hangs over commuters wearing face masks as they wait for the train in downtown Mountain View, California, on Nov. 16, 2018.
Families protest Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Los Angeles visit by chanting in front of the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, where he held a meeting on June 26, 2018.
Menlo Park Mayor Peter Ohtaki delivers the "State of the City" address at the Park James Hotel in Menlo Park, California, on Oct. 11, 2018.
Jacob Patterson is the Executive Director at Think Tank Gallery in Los Angeles' Fashion District. Patterson and four friends moved into this warehouse space in 2010 and built one of L.A.'s most vibrant D.I.Y. artist communities. Seventeen artists had been living there illegally, but after the deadly Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, L.A. forced Think Tank to close down. The community is finding new ways to put on art shows. Their first show after the closing took place at the McArthur Park Swap Meet.
During a training for a firefighter certification course, a fire is lit in a shed to give trainees the opportunity to put it out in a controlled environment. Captain Robbins of the Mountain View Fire Department sits on the edge of the compound and closes the door when the fire needs to be built back up during the exercise at Fire Station Four in Mountain View, California, on May 4, 2015.
Palo Alto Weekly restaurant reviewer Dale Bentson poses for a portrait at The Post in Los Altos, California on Jan. 13, 2019. After 18 years and 1,000 meals, he is retiring.
Stephanie Herman, who for years was a principal ballerina dancing for choreographer George Balanchine, demonstrates a ballet step at a performance space in Los Altos, California, on Nov. 29, 2018.
Menlo Park City Attorney Bill McClure in his Menlo Park office on Sept. 20, 2018.
A man walking downtown in the rain on Castro Street in Mountain View, California, uses a MacBook Pro to keep dry on Jan. 15, 2019.
Children fill cups and pipettes with purple-colored water at water play tables at Menlo Park City School District’s new preschool on Nov. 30, 2018.
Christa Lafayette, Chief Executive Officer of Etalon Diagnostics, retrieves a mailed-in equine DNA sample in Menlo Park, California, on Nov. 26, 2018.
Alvin Cura, a parishioner at Saint Joseph Catholic Church in Mountain View, California, walks past the church on Oct. 26, 2018.
Christina Villamor in her live-work studio at the Santa Fe Art Colony in Los Angeles in June 2017. For the past 30 years, the colony has guaranteed low rent for its artists. A new owner has recently acquired the property, and the artists are facing the very real possibility that they may lose their affordable spaces.
A summer evening on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles in July 2018.
Morgan Serughetti, right, jokes with his buddy Sam, center right, about which of the two is better at baseball during the Little League Challenger game in Menlo Park, California, on April 19, 2015.
A guide explains how to properly taste wine during a tour of the Concha y Toro Vineyard on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile on June 27, 2014.
Students from the German-American International School participate in the school parade in Menlo Park, California, on May, 15, 2015.
Nika Burnett and Joey Piscane rehearse the opening scene of the indie film “Flappers & Philosophers” in San Jose, California, on May 25, 2015.
** Photo was selected for the July 21, 2015 Daily Dozen National Geographic competition.**
A woman watches a presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in October 2016 at Wallis Annneberg Hall at USC.
