Speak City Heights is a 2011-2022 collaborative journalism project aimed at amplifying the voices of residents in one of San Diego’s most diverse neighborhoods, City Heights. Through reporting and multimedia projects from our partners — KPBS, Voice of San Diego, The AjA Project and Media Arts Center San Diego.
Why City Heights? Its transformation from a sleepy San Diego suburb to the city’s dense, urban core has given way to a diverse community of immigrants and refugees. It is among San Diego’s poorest, lacking quality housing, updated infrastructure or easy access to healthcare and nutritious food.
Our mission was to document the challenges specific to City Heights, and the work being done to address them. It was to inform City Heights residents of the changes happening in their neighborhood, so that they might participate in those changes.
Speak City Heights was an independent, non-profit media project supported with funding from the California Endowment.