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MICHELLE GARCÍA

Michelle García is a journalist and essayist and recent Soros Equality Fellow with the Open Society Foundations. This essay was adapted from her article in the forthcoming academic anthology, Democracy on the Line: Trumpism and the Latino Predicament. García is working on a non-fiction book about borders. Twitter: pistoleraprod

OSCAR GARCÍA

Oscar García is an editor at the Nuestro Diario newspaper in Guatemala City. He is a graduate of the University of San Carlos de Guatemala, and a former professor of the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Mariano Gálvez University. Three decades ago, he started out as an editor and reporter at the Guatemala Flash radio newspaper and the Diario Al Día newspaper.

TARA GARCÍA MATHEWSON

Tara García Mathewson is a reporter covering inequality and innovation in K-12 education, nationally, and she oversees coverage for Hechinger en Español as the languages editor. She has been writing about education since 2012, first for the Daily Herald in Chicago’s northwest suburbs and then as a freelancer until she joined The Hechinger Report in 2017, where she has focused on the “Future of Learning” and educational inequalities. García Mathewson has won awards for beat reporting and her investigations into the educational technology industry, among other topics. Her work has appeared in a variety of regional and national news outlets, including The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Boston Globe Magazine and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

EDDIE GASPAR

Eddie Gaspar, a native of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, is an associate photo editor and photojournalist at The Texas Tribune, a role they took on after working as the Tribune’s photography fellow for two semesters. Previously, they have served as Photo Editor and Chief Photographer at The Daily Texan, Multimedia Intern at KUT/X and Visual Content and Photo Editor at Texas Student Television’s “Austin Underground.” Eddie is a senior at The University of Texas at Austin and is fluent in Spanish. Photo credit: Brenda Bazán.

Andrea Godínez

Andrea Godínez is a Guatemalan social communicator with a seven-year career devoted to photojournalism and the production of journalistic content, focusing on issues such as migration, poverty and social inequality. She studied communication sciences at Rafael Landívar University.

BRANDON GOMEZ

is a segment producer and digital contributor at CNBC. He was named the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ “Next Generation Journalist of the Year” in 2017. He is a member of NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists, and has covered the push for diversity in small businesses, financial literacy, and how business can better serve underrepresented communities.

ERICA GONZÁLEZ MARTÍNEZ

is the daughter of parents from Río Piedras and Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. She served as the Opinion Page Editor and then Executive Editor of El Diario/La Prensa in New York. She is the founding editor of the Latina analysis and stories channel IDAR/E at the Women’s Media Center, and with Power 4 Puerto Rico champions changes that will help the island. Erica is a board member with City Limits magazine and the Women’s Media Center, and serves as a Aronson Journalism Awards judge.

KEERTI GOPAL

Keerti Gopal is a multimedia journalist and emerging documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York, and a climate cohort fellow with the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN). She graduated from Northwestern University in 2021 and moved to Taiwan for a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship, where she documented stories of climate action and resilience through photo, film, audio, and written media. In addition to her work with SJN, she's now a summer fellow at Inside Climate News, the editorial fellow at The Lever, and a graduate of One World Media’s Global Short Docs Forum for international filmmakers. Keerti is interested in accountability and investigative reporting, climate and environmental justice, and centering marginalized voices.

TÉMORIS GRECKO

Témoris Grecko is an award-winning political scientist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker who has covered armed conflicts on every continent and has authored seven non-fiction books.

TERRY GREENE STERLING

Terry Greene Sterling’s journalism has long been informed by her family’s roots in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands. A Pulitzer Center grantee, she’s a three-time Virg Hill Arizona Journalist of the Year and the Editor at Large for the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. Her bylines have appeared in numerous media, including The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Slate, High Country News, National Journal and Daily Beast. This is her first story for palabra., and it will always be close to her heart. She’d love to chat with you on Twitter @tgsterling or via her website.

PATRICIA GUADALUPE

Raised in Puerto Rico, Patricia Guadalupe is a bilingual multimedia journalist based in Washington, D.C. She has been covering the capital for both English and Spanish-language media outlets since the mid- 1990s. She previously worked as a reporter in New York City. She is a graduate of Michigan State University and has a Master’s degree from the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University. She specializes in business news, politics and cultural issues, and also freelances.

ARMANDO GUERRA

Armando Guerra (Cuba, 1975) is a documentary director and producer based in Spain. He started almost 20 years ago at CNN and has worked for CBC, PRI, Radio Havana Cuba and is a regular contributor to CGTN's documentary show Big Story. Among his films are "Für Maria", "Reinventing Cuba", "Ascending", "Unsustainable", "The Landing Strip", "Fortress Europe", "The Spanish Gate", "Made in Different Places," "Up North" and "Zero Hour". Armando also works as a consultant for the United Nations Environment Program where he produces campaigns and develops online learning content.

RUXANDRA GUIDI

Ruxandra Guidi a native of Venezuela, has reported throughout the Western Hemisphere for over 20 years. Her work has appeared on the radio shows PRX's The World and NPR’s Latino USA, and in Orion Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Atlantic, The New York Times and other publications. She teaches audio and freelance storytelling at the University of Arizona and collaborates regularly with husband, Bear Guerra, under the name Fonografia Collective.

KARLA GUTIERREZ

Karla Gutierrez is palabra’s first intern. She’s a fourth-year journalism student at California State University, Long Beach. She’s been a reporter for the Daily 49er, DIG en Espanol, and The Renegade Rip. She has also served as executive producer for the campus television program, Campus Connection. Her career goal is to become a broadcast producer.