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MARCOS CABRERA

Marcos Cabrera is a writer born and raised in Salinas, California. He has written for the San Jose Mercury News, the Village Voice, Zocalo Public Square and the Associated Press.

Roberto Camacho

Roberto Camacho is a freelance Chicano journalist from San Diego, California. He is a graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. His reporting typically focuses on criminal justice reform, immigration, Chicano/Latino issues, Hip-Hop culture, and their intersections with social justice.

Yessenia Camacho

Yessenia Camacho grew up in Pomona, California, and is from Mexican background. Her parents are from Jalisco, Mexico. She is a first generation college student with two Bachelors in Sociology and Chicanx Latinx Studies from UC Irvine. She is currently in a dual Masters program at UCLA for a Masters of Public Policy MPP and Masters of Social Welfare MSW. She works as a Case Manager to the unhoused population in Orange County, and is a photographer on the side. @worldvisionz_

MONICA CAMPBELL

Monica Campbell is a California-based independent journalist who focuses on immigration and immigrant life in the United States. She has reported globally extensively, including as a senior editor and reporter for The World.

LOURDES CARDENAS

Lourdes Cardenas is an assistant professor at San Francisco State University, where she is developing a Spanish-language journalism program. She has years of experience working for American and Mexican media outlets and is the author of “Marihuana: El Viaje a la Legalización.”

KAVITHA CARDOZA

Kavita Cardoza is a freelance journalist and has covered education and poverty for almost 20 years. She is currently serving as Public Editor for the Education Writers Association. Cardoza was awarded a Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship in 2021-2022. She is a frequent contributor to NPR and the Hechinger Report. Most recently she worked as correspondent for Education Week/PBS Newshour, WAMU in Washington, D.C. and Illinois Public Radio in Springfield, Illinois. Cardoza received multiple national awards for her work.

Ruben Castaneda

Ruben Castaneda is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist with more than three decades of experience as a reporter and an editor. He has worked for the Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report and is the author of the book S Street Rising: Crack, Murder and Redemption in D.C.

IVAN CASTANEIRA

Ivan Castaneira is a Mexican photojournalist and videographer who specializes in social movements, missing people in Mexico, migration, climate change and human rights.

MONICA CASTILLO

Monica Castillo is a film critic and journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, RogerEbert.com, Remezcla, The Wrap, Hyperallergic and elsewhere. She can usually be found online talking about the movies she just watched at @mcastimovies.

JEANNETTE CEJA

is an award-winning travel journalist and television host. She has appeared on BBC World News, WTTW Chicago, ABC7 Los Angeles, FOX 11 Los Angeles, The Mexico Travel Channel, Spectrum News 1, and KUSI News, among others. She’s a journalism graduate of Belmont University and the Professional Producing Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. Ceja has completed internships at Fox News Chicago, WTVF-CBS in Nashville, and The Tennessean daily newspaper. She was accepted into the Chips Quinn Scholars Program for Diversity in Journalism.

SOFÍA CERDA CAMPERO

Sofía Cerda Campero is a Mexican-American journalist and translator. Her work focuses on gender, Latin American politics, and immigration. She has written for The Daily Beast, NBC, Nexos (Mexico), and Chicas Poderosas, an organization that promotes the participation and leadership of women in the media. Raised in Mexico City, she has been living in Brooklyn for the past four years.

CORA CERVANTES

Cervantes is a freelance journalist in Los Angeles who focuses on immigration and diversity, equality and inclusion issues. She has produced stories for multimedia outlets, including NBC News, Al-Jazeera, NPR’s Latino USA, and Narratively.

FRANCISCO COLLAZO

Francisco Collazo is a photographer, chef, and co-founder of Immigrant Families Together.

FRANC CONTRERAS

Franc Contreras is a freelance journalist based in Mexico City. In the last three decades he has covered Latin America for China Global Television Network, Al Jazeera English, and the BBC World Service Radio. In the early 1990s, he was an Assistant Producer for NPR’s All Things Considered, based in Washington D.C. He was also part of the team that created Latino USA in Austin, Texas.

Maria Contreras

Maria Contreras is an illustrator born and raised in southern Chile. Her illustrations feature loud and saturated colors and are filled with memories. Fear and humor are her two inspirations. Her current clients include The New York Times, The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, Penguin Random House, NPR, The New Yorker, The Telegraph, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, among many other outlets. Her work has been featured in It's Nice That, Domestika, Wetransfer, Colossal, Creative Boom and other brands. In 2022, I won the Young Guns award from The One Club for Creativity. In 2023, she was an AI42 Selected Winner, was short-listed for WIA2023, served as a judge of Latin American design awards for the D&AD New Blood Portfolio Competition in collaboration with Editor X and was also a judge for the Young Guns award.

ALFREDO CORCHADO

is the award-winning Mexico/Border Correspondent for The Dallas Morning News. He’s the author of “Midnight in Mexico” and “Homelands.”

David Cordero Mercado

David Cordero Mercado is a multimedia and investigative journalist. He has reported on hate crimes in Puerto Rico as a reporter for El Nuevo Día, the biggest newspaper on the island. He earned a master's degree in Communications with an emphasis in Journalism Innovation from Syracuse University in New York, and a bachelor's degree in Information and Journalism from the School of Communication of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, as well as a second concentration in Political Science. He is also the Region 1 Director on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

Andrés Cornejo Pinto

Andrés Cornejo Pinto is a non-fiction filmmaker based in Ecuador whose work as a director has been screened at festivals worldwide, including IDFA, HOT DOCS, BUSAN, EDOC, and SHEFFIELD. He is currently producing the documentary "Ozogoche.” Andrés has a degree in film from ESCAC (Barcelona) and a master's degree in film directing from Docnomads (Lisbon, Budapest, Brussels). In addition, Andrés is a professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito.