Maia Nehme
Public Safety and Immigration Beat Reporter at Yale Daily News
Associate Editor at The New Journal at Yale
she/her | Cops & Courts and Latine Communities Beat Reporter @yaledailynews | Formerly @lancasteronline @wisdateline @californiamag
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3 weeks ago |
yaledailynews.com | Maia Nehme
Zachary Suri, Contributing Photographer When Gus Marks-Hamilton finished parole in 2014, having spent nearly eight years in Connecticut prisons, he immediately registered to vote. In his correctional facility, no absentee ballots were available. “It was simply an option that did not exist for people,” he said.
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4 weeks ago |
yaledailynews.com | Maia Nehme
Ariela Lopez, Contributing Photographer Bella Vazquez prides herself on being a good judge of character. So when her employer of six months stopped paying her weekly wages in the spring of 2022, citing temporary financial difficulties, she felt confident that he would eventually square up with her. “I believed him until the last moment,” Vazquez confessed in Spanish. “The expression he had, the way he spoke — I said to myself, ‘I have also suffered hardships, so why don’t I support him?
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1 month ago |
yaledailynews.com | Ariela Lopez |Maia Nehme
Maia Nehme, Contributing Photographer On the 28th anniversary of Malik Jones’s death at the hands of an East Haven police officer, a crowd of community members joined Malik’s mother, Emma Jones, to commemorate her son and inspire continued advocacy for justice. On April 14, 1997, 21-year-old Malik Jones was shot and killed by an East Haven police officer at close range after the officer pursued Malik’s car, and Jones did not pull over.
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1 month ago |
yaledailynews.com | Maia Nehme
Adrian Kuleza City police are investigating a Monday night double homicide 10 minutes away from Morse and Ezra Stiles colleges, at Goffe and Winter streets. The New Haven Police Department received three 9-1-1 calls alerting them to gunshots and injured people in the road at 9:50 p.m., Police Chief Karl Jacobson said at a Tuesday press conference.
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1 month ago |
yaledailynews.com | Maia Nehme
Maia Nehme, Contributing Photographer Up until Feb. 14, Azad Mousou’s daily routine included a 45-minute commute to the office of Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, or IRIS, New Haven’s refugee resettlement program. Mousou, who immigrated to the United States from Syria in 2012, began working at IRIS as an Arabic and Kurdish interpreter in February 2023, and later became a case manager on the agency’s resettlement and placement team. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s Jan.
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