
Daniela Doncel
Reporter at Connecticut Public
Covering CT’s Latino Communities | Reporter @wnpr | Previously: @wtic1080 & @whusradio | 🇨🇴🇺🇸 | @UConnJournalism Alumna
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1 week ago |
ctpublic.org | Daniela Doncel
Published May 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM EDT On a late Sunday morning, Heidi Caballeros helped her team warm up for a soccer game with stretches, a light jog and even some salsa moves in the gym at the Stamford PAL Center. Caballeros is among nearly 30 Latina women who showed up to play in the first women’s soccer match that three local community groups organized. For Caballeros, this was an opportunity to meet other Latinas in the community.
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2 weeks ago |
ctpublic.org | Daniela Doncel
Published May 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM EDT The City of Hartford is allocating an additional three million dollars in funding for Hartford Public Schools after the Board of Education identified a $6.7 million shortfall in its upcoming budget, but advocates and some city council members say there’s more work to be done.
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3 weeks ago |
ctpublic.org | Daniela Doncel
Published May 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM EDT The story of how your Puerto Rican grandparent came to build a life in Connecticut is a story worth sharing. That was the message from scholars who spoke on a recent panel at CT State Community College Capital for a traveling exhibition visiting Hartford. Diasporican: From Dispersion to Integration is an exhibition from the National Puerto Rican Diaspora Museum.
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3 weeks ago |
nhpr.org | Daniela Doncel
Growing up, City of Hartford Treasurer Carmen Sierra said her parents never put their savings in a bank. Instead, they put that money in an envelope. “My parents were the type that did their own little budget without being educated,” she said. “But they knew what the fixed expenditures [were] in order for you to live.”Money management was not something that her family talked about, she said. Sierra had to learn about it later on in her adulthood.
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3 weeks ago |
nhpr.org | Daniela Doncel
When Claudia Gibbons was a kid, she would stand in line with her family as early as five in the morning for an appointment at Charter Oak clinic in Hartford. Seeing other people waiting like her just to get medical care put her on the path to become a medical professional. “I saw so many honest, hard working people just really wanting to get health care and medical care, and that really touched me and pushed me forward to seek a medical profession,” Gibbons said.
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