Picking the community I’ve worked with the last 18 months was both a coincidence and a natural choice. I’ve worked with the Venezuelan community in NYC, a community of which I’m part. It wasn’t my first choice but, when the pandemic started, I know it was the right thing to…

Doing a whole semester online in the middle of a global pandemic taught me so much. I learned what design thinking is, and how I could look at the problems from a different perspective. I learned how to use tools to better understand the communities I’m working with. I learned…

I interviewed a lot of Venezuelans living in New York. They had a lot of problems: social security, a real expensive health system, not being able to see their families for years… I heard a lot of different experiences, from the immigrant who got there with a green card and…

I’m not from the United States, so I never fully understood how the elections there worked. It was only a couple of months ago, when I asked my classmates at Cuny’s Social Journalism program, that I understood the concept of voting by mail. It is only logical. More than 320…

Imagine this: is winter time and you’re kind of alone, in a new city, with none or few friends, away from your family, living through a pandemic, maybe you don’t have documents in that country and it’s very likely that your national ID is not valid anymore. You may be…