Selected Publications

Refinery29

Why children of immigrants may struggle with love languages and what to do about it

Insider

AAPI communities shaken by stabbing in NYC’s Chinatown and ongoing trauma of hate crimes

Meet the woman who started a Glassdoor-like app to address pay disparities in content creation

Daisy Hernandez is on a mission to combat the ‘invisible’ Kissing Bug disease affecting Latino communities

Women of color in academia call Netflix’s '‘The Chair’ relatable and point out what the show got wrong

They got Obama elected. Now activists fight to make sure his Presidential Center won’t displace residents

Redistricting efforts could destroy Black and Latino political power. Advocates are sounding the alarm.

How Hurricane Maria pushed young Puerto Ricans towards independence

NBC News

Body dysmorphic disorder symptoms worsening amid coronavirus physical distancing

A ‘bittersweet’ boom in business: Black-owned bookstores rush to meet unprecedented demand

Reading as resistance? The rise of the anti-racist book list

Racist, brutal past or Hispanic history? Latinos clash over Spanish colonial statues

Meet the woman behind the anonymous social media accounts advocating for healthy relationships

Uproar after Latina professor at Harvard denied tenure

Beloved Latino-owned North Carolina bookstore fights to survive coronavirus pandemic

People of color fear homemade masks could exacerbate racial profiling

Percival Everett’s ‘Telephone’ is a choose-your-own adventure story without the choosing

The etiquette of running during the coronavirus pandemic

Faced with flour and yeast shortages, bakers get creative

With campus life in question, high school seniors are wondering if they should still go away for college

‘Touching and Triggering’: ‘Knives Out’ sparks question of how to tell immigration stories

Kiley Reid’s ‘Such a Fun Age’ probes the insidious forms of racism

Can Latinos’ takedown of ‘American Dirt’ help diversify publishing?

Arturo Castro’s ‘Alternatino’ reflects the many faces of Latino millennial identity

Business owner fights to save ‘last LGBTQIA black club in NYC’

Amazon removes controversial books by ‘father of conversion therapy’

NBCU Academy

During the pandemic, journalists have stepped up where the government has failed

How journalists of color are coping after a traumatic year of reporting

Harper’s Bazaar

Why the Georgia Senate runoff elections matter and how organizers are preparing for them

What can we expect from the Biden presidency?

LatinaMediaCo

‘Of Women and Salt’ author Gabriela Garcia on the pressures of being a Latina author

Literary Hub

Before the Neapolitan quartet, there was ‘Sula’

HuffPost

‘Ugly Betty’ gave television an unlikely Latina heroine

The impact of ‘Jane the Virgin’ cannot be overstated

Latino Rebels

How media missteps exemplify the post-María relationship between the mainland and Puerto Rico

‘Love is Blind’ and the perpetuation of the unhinged Latina stereotype

Bustle

How 6 millennial Puerto Rican women used faith to cope after Hurricane Maria

Block Club Chicago

What does it take to be king of Chicago bar trivia? A lot of TV and attention to detail