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An illustration of a computer in a room with an AS election ballot box on the screen. (Andrea Gallego Rodriguez / Golden Gate Xpress)
Associated Students elections’ application to end Sunday
Students wait for their turn for volunteers to assist them with their taxes at the SFSU VITA office at SF State on March 30, 2023. (Tatyana Ekmekjian / Golden Gate Xpress)
Volunteer Income Tax Assistant provides free tax services at SF State
Illustration of a syringe representing vaccines surrounded by viruses. On March 28, 2023. (Leilani Xicotencatl/ Golden Gate Xpress)
CSU changes non-COVID immunization policy
Members of the Pacific Islander Student Association gather for a group picture at the end of their birthday mixer in room 116 of the Ethnic Studies building on Wednesday. (Anessa Bailon / Golden Gate Xpress)
Pacific Islanders’ Club changes name and status, focus on community remains the same
Andrew Tope (R) surveys his flooded property in Salinas Calif., on Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. Salinas, like most of California, has been battered by over a week of heavy weather and is threatened by rising floods from the Salinas river. (Benjamin Fanjoy/ Golden Gate Xpress)
SF State shares thoughts about ongoing storms
A headshot of Kailyn Dulay. (Photo courtesy of Kailyn Dulay)
Kailyn Dulay shares her experience as the lead role in the award winning short film “When You Left Me On That Boulevard”
A person, covered by an umbrella, walks in the rain at SF State in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. California has been hit by a few large winter storms in the past few days, bringing a deluge of rain and snow. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/Golden Gate Xpress)
Between the Issues: Back in Session
Latin America is a musically rich region where one can find many different styles of music including punk, metal and psychedelia. (Illustration by Oscar Palma / Golden Gate Xpress)
Get to know non mainstream music in Spanish with our biweekly playlist
“LOOK” is written with an arrow pointing to peepholes in bathroom stalls of SF State’s Humanities Building on Oct. 19, 2022. Additional writing on the stall reads “TAP 4 BJ” and “ASIAN BTM.” (Myron Caringal / Golden Gate Xpress)
SF State bathrooms: a public setting for private encounters
Barbara Loomis (left) manager of the used media and book store in the library at SF State, assists customer Rick Yuen (right) in finding children’s books for his grandkids on Dec. 2, 2022. (Tatyana Ekmekjian / Golden Gate Xpress)
Gator Talk: Friends of the Leonard Library
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Omar Morales

Omar Morales

Omar Morales is a recipient of the 2021 Washington Media Fellows Scholarship. He is a senior at SF State majoring in international relations with a minor in journalism. Omar has completed two terms as copy editor for both Xpress publications, and remains a contributor. His original contributions to Xpress include packaged multimedia stories, which highlight racial justice and equity issues in the era of COVID-19. Omar's hobbies include reading, photography, poetry and working out. (edited) 
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Executive Director Diane Gray and Associate Program Director Tachelle Herron (right to left) talked to GGX in a garden at 100% College Prep, a Bayview-Hunters Point nonprofit geared toward helping students make it to college. The organization is finding success in creating Black excellence amid the pandemic. (Omar Morales / Golden Gate Xpress)

Alum spotlight: Black women leading students to excellence at Bayview-Hunters Point nonprofit

Omar Morales
April 2, 2021
Peter Gentile, who is a bartender at Martuni’s, said that the SF Queer Night life is nonexistent now. “Well, I can speak for Martuni’s. I can’t speak for everybody, but what’s it like now? It’s nothing. We’re nothing. There’s no nightlife. We’re not taking nearly enough money, and there’s no community, which is what Martuni’s had because we are a piano bar.” (Emily Curiel / Golden Gate Xpress)

San Francisco’s queer nightlife grasps for a return to normalcy

Omar Morales
March 9, 2021
(Upper Left to Bottom Right) Tachelle Herron-Lane, Shanice Robinson, Denise Robinson,Tiffany Knuckles, Kevin Williams, Bryon Thomas, Neveah Vaughan, De’Onnie Dixon, Mar’Niyah Vaughan hold up fists and photos of slain Black Americans like Oscar Grant and Trayvon Martin, Soul of SF State stands against racism and anti-Blackness at SF State on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021.

Soul of SF State returns with virtual event observing Black History Month

Omar Morales
February 16, 2021
Among the priorities slated for implementation in the coming months are: the improvement of hiring practices, bolstering support for Black student clubs, anti-racist student programming, and the development of more scholarship resources. (Emily Curiel / Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State admin delivers first round of ‘fluid’ BLM agenda timetable

Omar Morales
October 20, 2020
According to James Martel, president of the SF State chapter of the California Faculty Association, the top concern for the bargaining team in this part of the negotiation was to save as many jobs as possible from what he described as a form of capitalism that is provoked by extreme circumstances such as a pandemic. (Golden Gate Xpress)

University, labor group strike preliminary deal on better practices amid pandemic

Omar Morales
September 8, 2020
Black students at SF State organized at a Open Forum for Black Students on July 24, expressing concerns with administration and personal experiences. (Olivia Wynkoop/Golden Gate Xpress)

Black students mobilize to press administration

Olivia Wynkoop and Omar Morales
August 6, 2020
A pedestrian walks by Hot Cookie in the Castro district. (James Wyatt / Golden Gate Xpress / San Francisco, Calif. July 29, 2020)

Campus voices react to Hot Cookie clash

Omar Morales
July 30, 2020
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