Skip To Main Content
Eliot Faine on Muck Rack

Eliot Faine

(Any/all)
Oakland
As seen in: Bay Area Reporter
Covers:  General assignment, civics, education, public health and safety, LGBT+

Get in touch with Eliot

Contact Eliot, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Eliot Faine’s Biography

Read Full Bio →

Eliot Faine is an early-career journalist in Oakland. Faine's coverage includes higher education, civics, and public health and safety across the Bay Area. Faine believes in empowering communities to self-determine by providing ethically sourced information.

His reporting has earned recognition from the Journalism Association of Community Colleges, the Community College Public Relations Organization, and the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Faine earned …

Eliot Faine’s Journalist Portfolio

See all →
SF supervisors vote to expand Compton's landmark, excluding interior

SF supervisors vote to expand Compton's landmark, excluding interior

The interior of the Taylor Street site of the Compton's Cafeteria Riots remains unaffected by the amendment o…

View article →
The Queer Infrastructure of San Francisco - NLGJA Connect Student Journalism Program

The Queer Infrastructure of San Francisco - NLGJA Connect Student Journalism Program

While the AI investment "boom" may be driving up market values, sustainable housing has to be rooted in local…

View article →
Hospitality House workers and supporters rally to save SoMa Self-Help Center

Hospitality House workers and supporters rally to save SoMa Self-Help Center

Closing the center would make the care it offers inaccessible to neighborhood residents, Hospitality House sa…

View article →
Compton's landmark effort delayed

Compton's landmark effort delayed

Activists' move to landmark the entirety of the culturally historic site of the former Gene Compton's Cafeter…

View article →
Meet the candidates for Peralta's Executive Vice President of Student Learning and Success

Meet the candidates for Peralta's Executive Vice President of Student Learning and Success

According to Peralta's Deputy Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer, Greg Nelson, Chancellor Tammeil Gilkers…

View article →
What to know about Peralta's Measure A on the June ballot

What to know about Peralta's Measure A on the June ballot

Alameda County voters will decide whether to reauthorize a substantial funding source for the Peralta Communi…

View article →

Articles

The Queer Infrastructure of San Francisco

|
By Eliot Faine
| nlgjaconnect.com
A digital drawing of San Francisco, Calif. All illustrations by: Eliot Faine/NLGJA Connect+. Owen Dempsey, executive director of Quest House, moved to San Francisco from Massachusetts in 2019 to receive care from the organization after his own gender-affirming surgeries. The 501(c)(3) nonprofit in San Francisco provides safe, temporary housing for trans men and transmasculine individuals to recover after phalloplasty or metoidioplasty– colloquially, “bottom” surgery.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

What to know about Peralta’s Measure A on the June ballot

|
By Eliot Faine
| peraltacitizen.com
Alameda County voters will decide whether to reauthorize a substantial funding source for the Peralta Community College District during the June 2 California primary election. The Peralta Colleges Affordable Education Reauthorization Measure, or Measure A, would extend the district’s existing parcel tax starting July 1, 2027 through June 30, 2036. A parcel tax is a form of property tax that is based on the characteristics of a unit of land, instead of its assessed value.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

“Peace officers” coming to Peralta, according to new security plan

|
By Eliot Faine
| peraltacitizen.com
Categories: The Peralta Community College District will certify in Peace Officer Standards and Training to employ armed officers as a part of the new “hybrid safety model”; the model includes artificial intelligence integrated into security cameras and emergency alerts Berkeley – The Peralta Community College District’s Interim Executive Director of Community Safety, Abdul Pridgen, announced the imminent return of Peralta armed “peace officers” on and around district campuses during a...
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 21 articles

Interview

See all →

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes! My uncle got me one for my eleventh birthday.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

To tell the truth without fear or favor.

Why did you become a journalist?

Some people have a story to tell the world. I want to tell the world's stories.

Awards

See all →

Journalism Association of Community Colleges

2026 - Statewide News Story

Co-authored a first place news story about the first court hearing of the alleged shooter of my college's athletic director. The suspect is a former student at my college.

View Award

Excellence in Journalism

2025 - Investigative Student Journalism

As part of a three-project package submitted by The Peralta Citizen, my year-long investigation into Title IX allegations against my college's athletics department was selected among 5 total awards given in the student category.

View Award

Journalism Association of Community Colleges

2025 - Opinion Story

Third place in statewide publication for opinion story on the mishandling of student body elections.

View Award