With
her San Francisco roots and career in local journalism, Arline Klatte’s
intimate knowledge of the city has been essential to her work as
a real estate agent. She grew up in Presidio Heights and went to
the Convent of the Sacred Heart from Kindergarten through the 12th grade,
before receiving her bachelors degree in art history from UC Berkeley.
A masters degree in journalism from Columbia University followed, and after
working for various publications in New York and a two-year stint in Russia
with the Moscow Times, she returned home to San Francisco and worked as
an editor at SF Gate, and later
as the commentary editor of CBS MarketWatch.“
My career at the San Francisco
Bay Guardian and SF Gate gave me a lot of useful knowledge about
the inner workings of city,” she says.“And I continue
to learn a lot about San Francisco through Porchlight,” she adds,
referring to the popular monthly storytelling series she co-founded
and curates. Porchlight features “regular” San
Franciscans telling their stories, and has been featured in San
Francisco Magazine, 7x7, The San Francisco Chronicle and on KRON-TV. >>more
