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Xpress Magazine

The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

Olivia Mendez

Olivia Mendez, Managing Editor

Olivia Mendez is the Fall 2025 managing editor for Xpress Magazine. As a fourth-year journalism student at San Francisco State University, she reports on sustainable construction and urban agriculture. She has a professional background in construction management and received two Associate degrees from City College of San Francisco in architecture and in construction management. Raised in Sacramento, California, she’s lived in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset District since 2013. In her spare time she makes stained glass artwork. She looks forward to graduating and finishing 19th grade in December 2025.

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A corkboard scattered with notes of admiration and thanks left by visitors and a San Jose Mercury article from Jan. 1980 titled “Audium a Delight for the Senses,” in the lobby of the current Audium space at 1616 Bush St. (Olivia Mendez / Xpress Magazine)

Sound Becomes 3D at Audium Theater

Olivia Mendez, Managing Editor
December 9, 2025

The windowless room is completely dark and 49 occupied chairs form a circle on a red carpet. Sound emerges from all angles of the room. With the lights on, it looks like a set from a mid-century TV show...

Glide's Family Youth and Childcare Center brought children from multiple grades to the event, giving them a rare opportunity to enjoy time outdoors after a long school day. (Hannah Clark-Nixon / Xpress Magazine)

Golden Gate Greenway Ice Cream Social

Olivia Mendez, Managing Editor
October 11, 2025

Tiny humans wearing bright blue oversized T-shirts kicked and chased a soccer ball on artificial grass, charged with a sugar rush. The kids, from GLIDE’s after-school program, teetered between two appropriately-sized...

A crowd of protestors gathers outside of Mashouf Field during Charlie Kirk’s “American Comeback Tour” on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (Haley Abarca / Xpress Magazine)

What’s the Deal with Campus Speakers?

Olivia Mendez, Managing Editor
September 22, 2025

In 2004, Utah Valley State College (now Utah Valley University) became a hotbed of political discourse when student council members hosted liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore for an on-campus event...

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