Members of the organization Healthcare in Action talk to Raylen at the encampment where he lives in Rialto on May 1, 2024. Team members had a consultation with Raylen and offered him a specialist referral.
Members of the organization Healthcare in Action talk to Raylen at the encampment where he lives in Rialto on May 1, 2024. Team members had a consultation with Raylen and offered him a specialist referral. (Aryana Noroozi for CatchLight Local / Black Voice News)

Ellen Perrault

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Black Voice News’ photojournalist, Aryana Noroozi, was recently featured in a Ground Truth Project column titled, “Building trust: How a Photojournalist captures the nuances of unhoused people,” by Ben Brody.

Brody’s report highlights Noroozi’s work, Street Medicine Team Provides Healthcare to San Bernardino’s Unhoused Populations. The piece tells the story of Kristen Malaby, a Fontana native, who was injured in a warehouse in 2017, and found empowerment in organizing nature trash cleanups across the region. She encountered unhoused people in the process and brought them food and clothing. 

In 2022, she was hired by Healthcare in Action as a Peer Navigator, forming the first street medicine team in San Bernardino County. 

This Black Voice News project is supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, and is part of “Healing California,” a yearlong reporting Ethnic Media Collaborative venture with print, online and broadcast outlets across California.