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  • 1 week ago | eltimpano.org | Erica Hellerstein

    Were you forwarded this email? Click here to subscribe. Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Erica Hellerstein, senior immigration, labor and economics reporter. Last week, House Republicans narrowly passed a massive tax and spending bill that, if approved by the Senate, would allow the Trump administration to enact key parts of its policy agenda.

  • 2 weeks ago | eltimpano.org | Erica Hellerstein

    Were you forwarded this email? Click here to subscribe. Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Erica Hellerstein, senior immigration, labor and economics reporter. In today’s edition, I’ll be unpacking a new threat to in-state tuition, as well as the increasingly uncertain future of Dreamers in California.

  • 2 weeks ago | oaklandside.org | Erica Hellerstein |Darwin BondGraham

    This story was produced by El Tímpano, a civic media organization serving and covering the Bay Area’s Latino and Mayan immigrant communities. The original version of the story can be found here. In the winter of 2019, Adelaida, an immigrant from Todos Santos, a rural region in the northern highlands of Guatemala, arrived in the Bay Area. The timing was not ideal.

  • 3 weeks ago | eltimpano.org | Erica Hellerstein

    Were you forwarded this email? Click here to subscribe. Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Erica Hellerstein, senior immigration, labor and economics reporter. Last week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released findings from a series of focus groups conducted with Spanish-speaking immigrants who are either undocumented themselves or have undocumented family members. For readers of this newsletter, the results may not be surprising.

  • 3 weeks ago | localnewsmatters.org | Erica Hellerstein

    IN THE WINTER of 2019, Adelaida, an immigrant from Todos Santos, a rural region in the northern highlands of Guatemala, arrived in the Bay Area. The timing was not ideal. The then 12-year-old resettled in California just a few months before the pandemic shut down the kinds of communal spaces that could help a teenager adjust to a new life on the other side of the world. Cooped up at home, Adelaida stumbled through her online classes. She struggled to make new friends.

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Erica Hellerstein
Erica Hellerstein @E_Hellerstein
18 Dec 24

RT @CodaStory: We are so honored that @E_Hellerstein’s reporting on Kenya’s shadow content moderation industry has been shortlisted for the…

Erica Hellerstein
Erica Hellerstein @E_Hellerstein
16 Dec 24

Just read through the work of the other nominees and am absolutely blown away. So honored to be in the company of these incredible journalists! Also, long live collaborative cross-border reporting

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Fetisov Journalism Awards @fjawards

⚡️We are excited to reveal the shortlist for the 2024 #FetisovJournalismAwards! It includes 36 entries in 4 categories. Find the full announcement here: https://t.co/UEBMPr3Dev We thank the FJA Expert Council for their time and expertise during the assessment process. https://t.co/GaL79VEhxY

Erica Hellerstein
Erica Hellerstein @E_Hellerstein
15 Dec 24

What a huge honor! My piece about big tech’s exploitative content moderation industry in Kenya for @CodaStory was just shortlisted for a Fetisov Award 😭 https://t.co/oIYniz6mKD

Fetisov Journalism Awards
Fetisov Journalism Awards @fjawards

⚡️We are excited to reveal the shortlist for the 2024 #FetisovJournalismAwards! It includes 36 entries in 4 categories. Find the full announcement here: https://t.co/UEBMPr3Dev We thank the FJA Expert Council for their time and expertise during the assessment process. https://t.co/GaL79VEhxY