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The Student News Site of San Francisco State University

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The Student News Site of San Francisco State University

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Lisa Moreno

Lisa Moreno, Editor-in-Chief

Lisa Moreno (she/her) is the editor-in-chief of Golden Gate Xpress and was formerly the campus editor. She was born in the East Bay and has a passion for covering grassroots movements and homelessness. Previously, Lisa served as a city intern for The San Francisco Standard, where she reported on public health, housing and education. In her free time, Lisa enjoys writing poetry and traversing San Francisco parks with her dog Play-Doh.

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An illustration of a person wearing a Gator mask in front of students on strike. (Myron Caringal / Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State boasts campus diversity, continually fails people of color

Lisa Moreno, Editor-in-Chief Dec 13, 2022

SF State is home to the nation’s renowned Third World Liberation strikes, which led to the creation of the very first College of Ethnic Studies. Today, colorful banners hang from every street lamp...

An SF State emergency telephone poll, which students can use to call the University Police Department. An SF State student made a threat to the campus community on Dec. 9, 2022. (Samantha Laurey / Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State’s university police arrest suspect for terrorist threats

Lisa Moreno, Editor-in-Chief Dec 13, 2022

SF State’s University Police Department arrested a suspect Saturday for a threat made to the campus community.  The suspect, an SF State student, made a school shooting threat via text message.  “The...

Poll workers Karen Law (left) and Rylie Velez (right) speak while voters cast their ballots in Annex I on SF State's campus on Nov. 8, 2022. (Juliana Yamada / Golden Gate Xpress)

[Video] ‘Voting is like breathing, you have to do it!’ San Francisco voters turn out to cast their ballots

GGX Staff Nov 8, 2022

San Francisco voters turned out for an exciting yet nerve-racking election Tuesday as rain poured down on the city.  Xpress reporters monitored polling sites across SF State, Park Merced, City College,...

An illustration of a lecturer faculty instructing a class. (Illustration by Tatyana Ekmekjian / Golden Gate Xpress)

‘The pay at SFSU is criminally low,’ SF State lecturer faculty reveal an urgent need for better working conditions

Lisa Moreno, Editor-in-Chief Nov 7, 2022

SF State’s lecturer faculty revealed an urgent need for better working conditions in a recent survey by the Equity for Lecturer Faculty Committee.  With over 200 respondents, lecturer faculty said...

Fits of SFSU co-founders Breanna Miller (left) and Esperanza Vaquiz (right) pose for a portrait in the Quad, Sept. 15, 2022. (Oliver Michelsen / Golden Gate Xpress)

Between the Issues: Flop or Serve? SF State students talk fashion

Oliver Michelsen and Lisa Moreno Oct 7, 2022

Two reporter-cluttered, newspaper-plastered classrooms sit side by side in the Humanities Building on the third floor. Dramatic keyboard clicks leak from the rooms, serving as the hallway’s consistent...

Manzanita Square is a residential apartment building built in 2020 for second year students and up. A student vandalized campus posters in the residence with antisemitic, racist, satanic, homophobic and transphobic hate speech. (Lisa Moreno / Golden Gate Xpress)

[Photo] Campus residents find posters vandalized with hate speech in residence hall

Matthew Cardoza, Copy Editor Aug 29, 2022

Manzanita Square is a residential apartment building built in 2020 for second year students and up. A student vandalized campus posters in the residence with antisemitic, racist, satanic, homophobic and...

SF State students gather around Christian protesters in the Quad on Aug. 25. (Lisa Moreno / Golden Gate Xpress)

Christian operatives assert racist claims at SF State

Lisa Moreno, Editor-in-Chief Aug 25, 2022

Nameless Christian operatives stormed the Quad at SF State Thursday around 3:30 p.m. to assert conservative and racist “guidelines to enter heaven.”  The group of six declined to say which church...

Associated Students listen to public comment at Board of Directors meeting on April 27. (Lisa Moreno / Golden Gate Xpress)

Following student scrutiny, Associated Students endorses Black Student Union statement against student government

Lisa Moreno, Editor-in-Chief Apr 27, 2022

The Associated Students Board of Directors endorsed the Black Student Union’s statement against it, following a series of statements from student organizations condemning the student government.  Monday’s...

Lee Lockhart, SF State’s Black Student Union vice president of external affairs, poses for a portrait in front of the Malcolm X mural at Cesar Chavez Student Center on March 26. (Maximo Vazquez / Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State Black Student Union condemns student government, pulls out of joint event

Lisa Moreno, Editor-in-Chief Apr 26, 2022
The decision comes after Associated Students delayed payment forms to a fellow ethnic student organization
Students and alumni browse the art at SF State’s “Down with the whiteness” art show on April 10 at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco. (Lisa Moreno/ Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State Students and Alumni present their art and activism

Lisa Moreno, Editor-in-Chief Apr 12, 2022

SF State’s Art Student Union showcased their art show titled, “Down with the Whiteness” from April 9-10 at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco. Students Jasmine Liang, Victor Saucedo...

The ‘We Are Still Here’ mural, located in the Cesar Chavez Student Center. The mural, along with the Student Kouncil on Intertribal Nations’ 12th Annual Mural Celebration, were meant to commemorate the lives lost at the California missions and residential schools throughout North America. (Garrett Isley / Golden Gate Xpress)

Associated Students delays funding to Indigenous student organization

Lisa Moreno, Editor-in-Chief Apr 4, 2022

SF State’s Associated Students stalled funding to the Student Kouncil on Intertribal Nations following disagreement over comments made at an annual event, according to documents obtained by Xpress. The...

Sophia Benzoni, a fourth-year Environmental Studies major and English Literature minor, poses in front of the Greenhouse at SF State on March 3. Benzoni was part of a resolution proposal that ensures SF State continues to have accountability towards their divestment of fossil fuels.  (Bianca Heredia / Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State unanimously approves total fossil fuel divestment

Lisa Moreno, Editor-in-Chief Feb 24, 2022

SF State’s Associated Students Board of Directors unanimously approved on Wednesday the continuation of total fossil fuel divestment on campus.  Fossil fuel divestment pressures large establishments...

Power outage at the humanities building caused professor Ali Kashani to teach his political science class in the front of the building. (Abraham Fuentes / Golden Gate Xpress)

Partial power outage at SF State

Lisa Moreno, Editor-in-Chief Feb 23, 2022

Editor's note: SF State's Office of Emergency Services confirmed at 2:57 p.m. that all PG&E had restored power to all parts of campus. SF State is currently experiencing a partial power outage,...

SF State faculty Ash Klein and Rick Harvey station outside J. Paul Leonard library, offering assistance to students for the first day of in-person classes on Feb.14, after nearly two years of virtual meetings. (Garrett Isley / GoldenGateXpress)

Associated Students survey campus on Gator Pass expansion

Lisa Moreno, Editor-in-Chief Feb 14, 2022

SF State Associated Students’ Gator Pass expansion survey went live Monday via iLearn.  The Gator Pass — which currently provides free Muni rides and 50% off BART to and from Daly City — does...

Marem Olsen and Elsa Caaney(left to right) attend classes virtually inside the J. Paul Leonard Library on SF State’s campus on Jan. 24, 2021. (Maximo Vazquez / Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State kicks off the spring semester via Zoom

Lisa Moreno, Editor-in-Chief Jan 24, 2022

After a successful in-person fall semester, SF State students looked forward to continuing their classes on campus this spring.  But on Jan. 6, SF State President Lynn Mahoney announced in an email...

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