Through our blog, read the experiences from our fellows from our most recent reporting trip.
During the San Pedro Sula portion of the trip, Alex and I spent our time meeting with defenders outside the city and meeting displaced families through a wonderful and very helpful organization called Casa…
On my knees and blindfolded, my ankle was starting to give out. So was my knee (an ongoing issue for me lately). I kept my head down, calm and deferential. I had been “kidnapped”. The…
Bananas. That’s the perfect way to describe Leah Varjacques. She loves bananas and swears they have healing powers. She’s long and slender like a banana. She bruises easily as observed during HEFAT training. She’s also…
Victoria Moll-Ramírez was set on becoming a sports journalist, until she realized she only liked one sport (basketball). She then fell in love with hip-hop radio – she dreamed of becoming the next Angie Martinez…
If you’ve never been to Mexico City, you can discover the grandiose city’s spirit in the images captured by documentary photographer Greta Rico. Greta, a native of Mexico, is a cultural journalist turned visual storyteller,…
For Kyana Moghadam, stories are a way to understand the world. Who gets to tell the story is just an important as the story itself, she says. That’s why her work focuses on audio and…
One of the greatest characteristics of journalists is their desire to preserve history. These scribes and historians are the people who have an incessant need to make sure that life does not go unnoticed. They…
When Natalia Aldana was growing up she often got sent to detention for asking too many questions. As an adult, she realized this was an asset rather than a weakness, and journalism was the perfect…
Courtesy of Anna-Cat Brigida A ferocious reader at a young age, Anna-Cat Brigida says her career as a journalist was born out of an obsession with words. “I was a book nerd,” she says, adding…
