Jocelyn Wiener writes about health and mental health for CalMatters, exploring the intersection between government policies and people’s lives. She has worked as a reporter in her native California for close to two decades. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, Kaiser Health News, the San Francisco Chronicle and many other state and national publications. After graduating from Stanford University, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to spend a year and a half working with young people living on the streets of El Salvador. She earned a master’s degree at Columbia University’s School of Journalism, and reported on poverty and homelessness for The Sacramento Bee. She has been both a Center for Health Journalism California and Data Fellow.

I am a freelance reporter with a focus on health and mental health care and other social issues. I regularly report for the CHCF Center for Health Reporting, a non-profit journalism organization based in Los Angeles that puts together in-depth stories on health care issues in California. These projects run in newspapers and on radio stations around the state.