My name is Sabrina Moreno and I'm a COVID-19 reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch covering the pandemic's impact on Black, Latino and immigrant communities. I've written about disparities in health, poverty and the vaccination rollout through a mixture of enterprise reporting and features. My work has focused on the lack of language accessibility in medical information and gaps in data collection for race and ethnicity. In true Venezuelan fashion, I also eat at least one arepa per day.

Articles

Richmond Times-Dispatch
Health Equity & Social Justice
Children & Families
Healthcare Systems & Policy
Mental Health & Trauma
Community & Public Health

Essential and Overlooked: Federal relief changed Virginia's COVID response. For some Latinos, help came too late.

How policy decisions in Virginia led Latinos to being among the most likely to get infected, hospitalized and die in the first two years of the pandemic.

Race and Equity
Poverty and Class
Immigrant and Migrant Health
Mental Health
Healthcare Regulation and Reform
Sookyung Oh spoke in July about language access problems during the Unemployment Action Coalition’s protest against the Virginia
Health Equity & Social Justice
Children & Families
Healthcare Systems & Policy
Mental Health & Trauma
Community & Public Health

Audit finds Virginia agencies have failed to provide proper language access to services

A newly released state-ordered audit found Virginia agencies have failed to competently provide information to the almost half a million residents who speak little to no English.

Immigrant and Migrant Health
Poverty and Class
Mental Health
Healthcare Regulation and Reform