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Jan 17, 2025 | 
latinousa.org | Victoria Estrada |Luis Eduardo Luna
As a Zapotec and Maya Ch’orti’ environmental scientist, Dr. Jessica Hernandez has never felt entirely comfortable in academia. When she started college, she looked forward to sharing what she had learned from her grandmother and father about nature, but her lived experiences and knowledge were dismissed and sometimes mocked by her professors.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
latinousa.org | Victoria Estrada |Luis Luna
Throughout Paquito D’Rivera’s life, music has been his constant companion. The 76-year old jazz legend and pioneer has played on stages across the world and is still winning awards across genres. In 2023, he received two Latin Grammys for Best Latin Jazz Album and Best Contemporary Classical Composition. But Paquito’s story isn’t about the awards or the accolades. “I don’t get my head full of smoke,” he tells Latino USA.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
latinousa.org | Victoria Estrada |Luis Luna
As part of “The Latino Factor: How We Vote,” our 2024 election year series, we bring you a look at how disinformation affects Latino and Spanish-speaking communities, and how to combat its effects. Read the episode transcript here. For decades now, every new election cycle in the United States brings with it disinformation campaigns. Studies have shown that Latinos are more likely to consume and share misinformation.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
latinousa.org | Victoria Estrada |Luis Eduardo Luna
For the past decade, Armando Perez has worked as a wildland firefighter with the Eldorado, California, Hotshot crew—an elite group that works in the hottest portions of wildfires. Growing up in a Mexican family in California, Armando never imagined he would become a hotshot. But after ending up in juvenile detention, he joined a program of incarcerated firefighters.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
latinousa.org | Victoria Estrada |Marta Martinez |Marta Martínez |Luis Eduardo Luna
In her work, Argentine author Samanta Schweblin is interested in exploring the sense of eeriness that accompanied her childhood. Samanta was born in Buenos Aires in 1978, a couple of years after the start of a violent dictatorship. But, while violence surrounded her growing up, there was also art: her grandfather was a famous artist who began to train her as a writer when she was around six years old.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
latinousa.org | Victoria Estrada |Luis Eduardo Luna
Javier Zamora is a writer who believes he has a particular responsibility: to understand and also change the world through words. He comes from a tradition of poets in El Salvador who used poetry to denounce injustices, the “Generación Comprometida,” and his personal experience of migrating as a child alone to the United States has shaped his worldview.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
latinousa.org | Victoria Estrada |Luis Luna
A special episode remembering Latino USA founder and pioneer public radio journalist Maria Emilia Martin, who passed away on December 2nd, 2023. After a career in public media of almost 50 years, Maria left a mark as journalist, educator and tireless advocate for Latinos, Latinas, and Indigenous voices in journalism in the United States and Latin America.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
latinousa.org | Deepa Fernandes |Victoria Estrada |Luis Eduardo Luna
In this two-part investigation, we look into Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), the largest child welfare agency in the U.S., and what happens when the system that is meant to protect these children falls short—and even puts their lives at risk.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
latinousa.org | Deepa Fernandes |Victoria Estrada |Luis Luna
In this two-part investigation, we look into Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), the largest child welfare agency in the U.S., and what happens when the system that is meant to protect these children falls short – and even puts their lives at risk. When domestic violence unfolds in a home, how can you protect the children living there?
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
latinousa.org | Reynaldo Leanos Jr. |Victoria Estrada |Luis Luna |Lee Gelernt
Latino USA continues to mark its 30th anniversary and look back at its reporting throughout the last three decades. On today’s show, we look at immigration, then and now. Maria Hinojosa is joined by Camilo Montoya-Galvez, immigration and politics reporter for CBS; Natalia Aristizabal, Deputy Director of Make the Road New York; and Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.
