Linda Perez

Marketing Coordinator

Born and raised in Bogota, Colombia. Linda is an award-winning journalist and now copywriter for a local advertising agency targeting the Hispanic market. She moved to Atlanta in 2003 and has worked at different media outlets, including Mundo Hispánico, the largest Hispanic newspaper in the state of Georgia. As an education and health reporter, she is very aware of the different issues that Latino families face in the state. Linda has a Master's Degree in Communications from Georgia State University. She is also a flamenco dancer.

Articles

Lessons learned: What my Fellowship projects taught me

<p>How do you talk to a family about their son's suicide attempt? This was the question I kept asking myself before meeting with the Hernandez family. Their oldest son, Miguel, attempted suicide a few years ago, and they were willing to share their story with me.</p>

Latinas and Reproductive Health in Georgia

<p>The anti-immigrant sentiment that some Latinas in Georgia are experiencing has led some women to refrain from scheduling routine medical exams that could save their lives.</p>

Crisis De Salud: Where is the support of the sick?

Throughout this year, in which the former Grady dialysis patients have been compromised treatment, several people have supported. However, there are allegations that the aid of the Hispanic community is almost nil.

Crisis De Salud: Grady will be held accountable

Members of the Board of Commissioners of Fulton want to finally resolving the situation of former patients of the outpatient clinic of Grady Hospital dialysis and even questioned the close of this center last year.

Crisis De Salud: Chronic uncertainty

It was ten o'clock, wet heat was hard to bear and the doctor Neil Shulman desperately shouted through a loudspeaker: "It is going to die! They are going to die!".
Around a dozen people nodded and looked at him with saddened eyes. Held in their hands banners reading: "Grady, Do not Let Them Die" (Grady, do not let them die!).

Crisis De Salud: They were running out of time

Concern refills the lives of more than thirty dialysis patients in Atlanta. They are reaching the date will no longer receive the treatment that keeps them alive.
On 31 August contract expires on Grady Hospital signed with Fresenius private clinic for further treatment of these patients, mostly illegal immigrants.

Crisis De Salud: Pray to survive

El domingo 28 de agosto expacientes de diálisis del Hospital Grady, junto con familiares y defensores de su situación, buscaron un momento de paz. Reunidos en la iglesia Oakhurst Presbyterian en Decatur, recordaron que son una familia y dejaron su futuro en manos de Dios ante la posibilidad de que en unos días no vuelvan a tener el servicio médico que les resulta vital.

Crisis De Salud: Video

A group of protesters called the Grady to continue dialysis treatments for 33 patients who will remain without service on Tuesday, August 31st.