Stephanie Penn

Stephanie Penn is a fine artist and journalist based in the Bay Area, and a graduate student at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

The Adventure Crew Helps Make Regional Parks Accessible

March 24, 2020 • by Stephanie Penn

On a crisp, bright Saturday morning in December, Andrew Fonseca, age 12, has joined a group of middle schoolers at the front gates of the Regional Parks Botanic Garden, in Tilden Park above Berkeley. His first reaction to the garden: … Read more

Discover the Rare Blooms of Huckleberry Preserve in the East Bay Hills

March 30, 2018 • by Stephanie Penn

Rare plants are common in California. Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve sits in an ideal location to display some of the rarest of them.