Researcher and Journalist
Adriana Camarena is an experienced researcher and writer who focuses on Latinx and indigenous diaspora community stories, histories and issues in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a frequent contributor to the El Tecolote newspaper, printed bi-monthly, online and in print, in English and Spanish. Learn more about her work at www.unsettlers.org
This survey was developed and gathered by El Tecolote with the support of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism 2020 Impact Fund, and in collaboration with Mujeres Hacia El Conocimiento in alliance with Excelsior Works.
The true cost of rent in the pandemic: Latinx immigrants in San Francisco were stripped of their wealth to cover the rent.
Rent stress drove SF’s immigrant Latinx community to work during the pandemic.
This project, which is investigating how San Francisco adapted to meet the needs of its Latinx communities during COVID-19, was led by Adriana Camarena and Alexis Terrazas with support from the 2021 Impact Fund.
"The virus is revealing the systemic neglect of the Latinx community and essential workforce in established health care pathways," two journalists write.
Los funcionarios de salud de San Francisco sabían desde fines de marzo de 2020, y ciertamente en abril, que la población latina estaba siendo afectada de manera desproporcionada por la epidemia del COVID-19 y, sin embargo, no tomaron medidas efectivas para abordar la crisis. Si bien las personas lat
