
Erica Hellerstein
Investigative Reporter and Feature Writer at El Tímpano
Investigative journo/feature writer. Memory studies obsessive. Labor @el_timpano. Prev @codastory @iwmf @mercnews @indyweek. Say hi: [email protected]
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kqed.org | Erica Hellerstein
May 8Failed to save articlePlease try againA Soccer Without Borders Bay Area team gathered at a high school in the East Bay to practice for a weekend game against a familiar rival on Thursday, March 20, 2025. (Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/ Report for America corps member)As the years passed, Adelaida’s sense of isolation persisted.
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1 week ago |
eltimpano.org | Ximena Loeza |Erica Hellerstein |Jasmine Aguilera
Posted inImmigrant Rights 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.
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eltimpano.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 twelve-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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2 weeks ago |
codastory.com | Derek Beres |Emily Schultheis |Isobel Cockerell |Erica Hellerstein
War on Science Science once stood as society’s trusted compass for understanding the modern world and our place within it, but today, this foundation faces unprecedented attacks from multiple fronts. Our special series War on Science reveals how fringe skepticism has infiltrated mainstream discourse, reshaped public policy and threatens global progress on critical issues from climate change to public health. How have these anti-science movements gained legitimacy?
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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. On Monday morning, Californians awoke to the news that Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pope, had died after a weeks-long battle with pneumonia.
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