Sonja Sharp is a Metro reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She writes narrative stories with a focus on disability in California culture. Before joining the newsroom in 2019, she worked as an NYPD-credentialed member of the New York City press corps, writing stranger-than-fiction stories of crime and culture for VICE, the Wall Street Journal and the Village Voice, among others. She is a Bay Area native, a graduate of UC Berkeley and Columbia, and a proud Jewish mother.
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For adolescents, suicide prevention often starts with other teens. That’s what drew Donald “Trey” Brown III to Teen Line, where he was training before his suicide.
Nov. 30, 2023
In the absence of meaningful access to care, an old superstition has taken root: that talking about suicide will cause kids in crisis to kill themselves.
Nov. 30, 2023
The state’s universities, despite being leaders in the field, have struggled to institutionalize disability scholarship and to hire disabled faculty to teach it.
Nov. 27, 2023
After Saturday’s attack by Hamas militants in southern Israel, unofficial security forces are on high alert protecting synagogues, schools and Jewish communities in L.A.
Oct. 12, 2023
Nowhere was Dianne Feinstein’s death felt as strongly as in her hometown of San Francisco.
Oct. 1, 2023
In a city with more Jews than Tel Aviv, the Hollywood strikes have thrown the autumn holiday season into chaos.
Sept. 15, 2023
Burning Man exodus begins as festival-goers share their stories of escape.
Sept. 4, 2023
Rainstorms doused the annual festival at Black Rock Desert, but also caused road closures and rescues across Nevada.
Sept. 3, 2023
Critics say midget wrestling is an exploitative and dangerous spectacle that fuels public harassment and glorifies a derogatory slur. Promoters say, who cares?
Aug. 29, 2023
Record waits and Byzantine rules stymie California’s poorest patients amid a surge in eating disorders that began early in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aug. 11, 2023