Greenwald is the founder, editor, and executive director of the Davis Vanguard. He founded the Vanguard in 2006. David Greenwald moved to Davis in 1996 to attend Graduate School at UC Davis in Political Science. He lives in South Davis with his wife Cecilia Escamilla Greenwald and three children.
Civil rights attorney Alec Karakatsanis accuses elite media institutions of helping to normalize mass incarceration by distorting the intentions behind it, and argues that the New York Times article glorifying a federal prosecutor's career built on caging low-income people in the Bronx and Vermont is an example of this "Big Deception".
A Sacramento lawsuit challenging police violence during the 2020 George Floyd protests has resulted in a monetary settlement, but the court refused to impose lasting injunctive relief, leaving the plaintiffs and advocates frustrated and vulnerable to repeat abuse.
The writer was transferred from Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County to San Bruno Jail in San Francisco after being targeted for his journalism exposing the jail's conditions and deaths, and was placed in isolation in San Diego for 10 days after testing positive for Covid.
The Vanguard, a small nonprofit newsroom, is in need of $15,000 to stay afloat and pay its dedicated staff, and donations of any amount can help bring them closer to stability and justice.
A California appellate court dismissed criminal charges against Diana Teran, a former ethics adviser in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, ruling that the state attorney general improperly invoked a computer crime statute to prosecute her for sharing public court records.
