ESCOM Friday Author Series
Kevin Fagan, The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances
Friday, April 17, 2026
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Center for Student Success, CSS 255
Free, no registration required.
"A “riveting, deeply compassionate” (The New York Times) narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope."
Kevin Fagan is an award-winning journalist and passionate storyteller and author of The Lost and The Found. He specializes in writing about homelessness and poverty, human interest, crime, breaking news and the American West, taking pleasure in ferreting out stories others might not find. As a veteran reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle, Kevin focused extensively on the gritty culture of street people. Over the past 20-plus years he produced more than 500 high-impact articles and projects that helped drive city and national policy on homelessness, comparing and examining housing and counseling programs in the Bay Area and throughout the nation. From 2016 to 2021 he led the Chronicle’s annual sweeping “SF Homeless Project,” and in 2003 he spent six months in San Francisco’s streets to produce the influential five-day “Shame of the City” series exploring the then-exploding crisis of homelessness and its possible solutions.
Sponsored by Emeritus Students College of Marin, College of Marin Community Education and Lifelong Learning, & Book Passage.
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