Pendarvis Harshaw is an Oakland kid who achieved his dream of reading and writing for a living. He’s an award-winning journalist, covering prisons, hip-hop and his Northern Californian community. He currently lives in Sacramento and works in San Francisco at KQED, where he hosts the Rightnowish podcast and is co-editor of BayAreaHipHop.com. You can reach him at @ogpenn on all platforms.