Riley Cooke
Riley Cooke is a reporter at Palo Alto Weekly and Palo Alto Online focusing on city government. She joined in 2025 after graduating from UC Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in political science.
Her work has appeared on the radio for KQED and online in SFGate, NBC Bay Area, Local News Matters and more. She enjoys reporting on politics, housing and homelessness — and using as many em dashes as her editors will allow.
