I understand the value of teamwork and have produced some of my proudest work in collaboration with videographers, social media storytellers, and infographic and other multimedia content producers.
The deportees who want to 'Make El Salvador Great Again'
When I traveled to El Salvador with a visual journalist, we went in search of new angles on immigration. In the midst of a maelstrom of stories about immigrants being detained and deported in the U.S., we wondered: what happens next? This story features three Salvadorans who grew up in California and were deported as adults back to a country they barely knew.
Published by Univision with support from The International Women’s Media Foundation.
Featured in the International Women’s Media Foundation list of top stories of 2017.
Documenting Hate
At Univision, I was part of Documenting Hate, a ProPublica-led project reporting on hate crimes and hate incidents.
I engaged with our audience about incidents they’d experienced and investigated topics including: hate-fueled attacks at Walmart stores, how anti-immigrant sentiment affects Latinos, fear of speaking Spanish in public, the insult ‘Go back to your country,’ hate in the ER and more.
I was interviewed about the project on the Investigative Reporters and Editors podcast.
We asked Latinos who migrated to the U.S. in the backs of trucks to share their stories
After 10 migrants died in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer in Texas in July 2017, we asked readers to share their experiences crossing the border or traveling towards the U.S. packed into one of these trucks.
She was sentenced to 30 years in prison after her baby died during childbirth
El Salvador has one of the harshest abortion laws in the world. But the Salvadoran government has also arrested dozens of women for abortion and then convicted them of killing their newborns—slapping them with charges of aggravated homicide, which can carry sentences of up to 50 years.
Published by Univision with support from The International Women’s Media Foundation.
This story was part of a Gracies Award-winning video series ‘Women of Latin America.’
Trump’s licensing business
I enjoy appearing on camera.
This video accompanied an investigative series about the Trump Organization.
