Health reporter
USC Health Journalism Fellow, Stanford University John S. Knight Journalism Fellow, member of the Association of Health Care Journalists, board member Western Washington Chapter Society of Professional Journalists, long time volunteer Youth Tutoring Project Seattle, working with ESL students.
<p>Pairing English-language and ethnic media to report stories can be rewarding and result in great journalism — but it poses its own challenges. Sharon Salyer and Alejandro Dominguez share what they learned from each other in reporting an award-winning series on Hispanic mental health.</p>
<p>Family counselor Jorge Ruiz Chacón follows an ancient path to healing. At Western Washington University, he learned the same techniques in college psychology courses that his grandmother taught him. He just learned them in a different way.</p>
<p>The Laotian teenager was hearing voices saying that he needed to die. He wasn't sleeping or eating. He was losing weight. And he was convinced some force was trying to push him from a second-story window.</p>
<p>The only place 13-year-old Jordan Torres seemed to find comfort was in his darkened bedroom. He remembers feeling the same way, and not knowing why, when he was much younger, just 6 or 7 years old.</p>
<p>She was just 13 when the man tried to rape her. She got away.<br /><br />He came back with a gun, she said, attacking her inside her parents' house in Cuauhtémoc, a town in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.</p>
