From March 2021 to December 2022, I was the Director of Journalism Partnerships at Define American, a nonprofit organization that works to humanize the media’s narrative around immigration. I mentored immigration journalists, created a toolkit for reporters and photographers in the field, and conducted a study with my colleagues on the coverage of local immigration news in one state.

Define American’s original research on one state’s news ecosystem — North Carolina — offered urgent lessons for journalism to improve its reporting on local immigrant communities.

As published in Poytner.