Leticia Tate-Azevedo holds her two-year-old son Gunner Tate-Boyer in their City Gardens apartment in San Francisco, on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. The two were one of the first tenants to move into the new supportive housing in SOMA. | Juliana Yamada/Special to The Chronicle
Saxophonist Gary Bartz swings at the playground at Franklin Square in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, August 18, 2023. The 82-year-old has won two Grammy awards for his contributions to jazz music. | Juliana Yamada/KQED
John Howard III, 8, poses for a portrait with his track medals at Castlemont High School in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, July 31, 2023. Howard III runs track with the East Oakland Track Gems, a nonprofit that introduces OUSD students to track and field and helps them with various travel expenses. | Juliana Yamada/KQED
Luis A. Torres stands for a portrait at Balmy Alley in the Latino Cultural District on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Juliana Yamada)
Kim Cavagna stands in a shed filled with writing from her late son Jesse at her home in Lower Lake, Calif., on Thursday, April 27, 2023. Kim and her husband David discovered Jesse was missing on September 14, 2022 when they returned from a camping trip.
Mari Jacobson stands for a portrait in front of drying Hachiya persimmons in her home in Berkeley, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. Jacobson began making the dried persimmons, or hoshigaki, in November to fundraise for the Middle East Children’s Alliance and support Palestine. | Juliana Yamada/KQED
Scarlett Goddard Strahan, 11, sits for a portrait at her home on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024, in Sacramento, Calif. Goddard Strahan became fascinated with skincare at 10 years old, after watching TikTok videos of complex skincare routines, and unknowingly used products with anti-aging and harsh chemicals which quickly damaged her skin barrier. (AP Photo/Juliana Yamada)
Unite Here Local 2 leader María Mata stands for a portrait in front of the W Hotel on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Juliana Yamada)
Tia Cabral stands for a portrait in her home in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, August 10, 2023. Cabral, known as SPELLLING, released a new album “SPELLLING & The Mystery School” on August 25. | Juliana Yamada/KQED
Lena Turner, 93, poses for a portrait in her restaurant, Chika and Sake in San Francisco's Japantown on Thursday, July 27, 2023. Turner has been a restauranteur in Japantown for almost five decades now. Juliana Yamada/KQED
Robert Starkey poses for a portrait at Alta Plaza Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, August 4, 2022. Starkey uses Nextdoor to post his photography and tell stories to his neighbors while he undergoes cancer treatment. | Juliana Yamada/The Standard