How Did You Find Your Way Into Newspapering?

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I was having a lot of issues when I moved and I threw myself into journalism. It kind of just gave me something to do and to feel, you know, it was important. And so I ended up also getting involved in this thing called the Urban Newspaper Workshop When I was in high school. So all these Seattle Times reporters took teenagers and kind of trained us on how to be journalists at like 16. Yeah, that was amazing to be from this small town and then end up at the Los Angeles Times.

Erika Hayasaki has written for The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and The Atlantic. Her new book is Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family.

“I don’t subscribe to the belief that it’s our story because we’re the journalist that wrote it — especially when people are sharing these really intimate, deep, painful moments. That is not my story. That’s their story that they've collaborated in a way with me to share through these interviews.”

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