Catching Up With Sarah Mizes-Tan
CapRadio’s Race and Equity reporter joined the station a year ago.
Sarah-Mizes-Tan
It’s become almost cliché to say that COVID-19 has laid bare the racial and economic inequality in America, but one reason we can even talk about that fact is that intrepid journalists interpret data for us. On a local level, CapRadio’s first-ever Race and Equity reporter, Sarah Mizes-Tan, has been producing multiple stories each week on the intersection of race, health and politics.
Mizes-Tan moved to Sacramento to take the job at CapRadio in February 2020. When asked about her most memorable story in her relatively brief tenure thus far, she mentioned an April piece on inequity in the City Council’s distribution of pandemic-relief loans to small businesses. Her story contained the shocking fact that not a cent of the $1 million in loans went to any business in the Little Saigon district along Stockton Boulevard. Nick Miller, t