Almost 1 in 5 people in the U.S. are Hispanic, but growth comes with rethinking the terms of a “mixed ethnicity.”
nbc latino's 2022 special hispanic heritage report was recognized with a 2023 National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Ñ Award, in the digital category. I was Featured as a lead writer and researcher. my story on an Alabama Man Tracing his Ancestry Back Centuries To Embrace his Latino Culture was picked up by nbc news now. i was sent to huntsville, alabama, to produce the story and was a second camera operator. i also helped coordinate and conduct interviews with a tv correspondent and gathered videos and images for the special report. msnbc also featured our special report on one of their segments and cited exclusive data we collected from ancestry, the American genealogy company.
“It’s been a great journey for me, up until now,” says Joe Del Bosque about the successful 2,000-acre family farm he's built. The future for him and others looks increasingly uncertain.
A multimedia report I produced on California farmers dealing with the state’s water drought was recognized with a 2022 CCNMA Latino Journalists of California, Ruben Salazar Award, in the digital category. I traveled to Firebaugh and five points, ca, to conduct interviews, gather images and wrote the digital story and filmed and edited the accompanying videos.
