We are a mentorship program designed to produce projects that strengthen reporters at community outlets and empower marginalized audiences.
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📢 Big news! 80 applications → meet our 2026 Community Journalist Fellows reporting across the U.S. & borderlands.
📢 ¡Grandes noticias! Más de 80 solicitudes → conoce a la nueva generación de periodistas comunitarios con impacto local.
🔗 altavozlab.com 💛
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Jun 15
Meet Lorenzo Gómez 📍 Phoenix
2026 Altavoz Lab Fellow
Reporting on politics, culture & community for LOOKOUT News Publications.
🎥 Watch his Intro video | Mentored by Cindy Carcamo
#Meetourfellows #Arizona #CommunityJournalism
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Jun 11
Most coverage of 2SLGBTQIA communities is built without listening. Queer and trans lives are more than crisis or controversy.
👉 Ask your newsroom: who is missing from the room?
#AltavozLab #NewsroomDiversity #InclusiveJournalism
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Jun 8
Meet Jennie Trejo📍 Dallas TX.
2026 Altavoz Lab Fellow.
Working where community, education & local news meet. Jennie (@jennietrejo) reports for Dallas Free Press @dallasfreepress.
🎥 Intro video | Mentored by Mago Torres (@magiccia).
#AltavozLab #MeettheFellow #Dallas
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Jun 4
Una misma tierra documents immigrant communities in Puerto Rico through nuance, memory, and lived experience.
📖 🎥: altavozlab.com/news & tinyurl.com/9millones
🇵🇸 Stay tuned for Palestinian story updates.
Produced by @9millonespr with the support of Altavoz Lab.
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Jun 1
Meet Ethan Bakuli
📍 Detroit reporting for @PlanetDetroit
2026 Altavoz Lab Fellow
Journalist reporting on climate, health & communities.
🎥 Intro video
Mentored by @brentinmock
#CommunityJournalism #altavozlab #Fellowship #planetdetroit #climate #health #brentinmock
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May 29
Making social video is less technical than most people think 🤳
Next Tuesday Jimena Sandoval will host a FREE workshop with Altavoz Lab on mobile storytelling for journalists & creators.
📅 June 2 — 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET
🔗 TINYURL.COM/VIDEOSFORSOCIAL1…
#MobileJournalism #Storytelling
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May 27
Meet Stephanie Casanova 📍 Tucson.
Reports for Somos Tucson and CALÓ News (Border collaboration)
Stephanie is focusing in creating a bilingual immigration detention, and visitation resource guide to navigate the detention system.
Mentored by Mónica Ortiz-Uribe
#Fellowship
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May 26
No necesitas equipo profesional para crear videos que conecten. 📱🎥
Este 1 de junio estaremos impartiendo un taller virtual sobre storytelling, hooks, video vertical y edición básica para redes junto a Altavoz Lab.
Regístrate ya!
🔗 tinyurl.com/TallerVideospara…
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May 20
2/2 Help us celebrate and uplift these incredible leaders shaping the future of journalism
Cast your vote and support your favorite nominee here: lionpublishers.com
Every vote helps recognize the power of community-centered, independent reporting.
#LocalNews #AltavozLab
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May 20
1/2 Huge congratulations to all six nominees for LION Publishers' 2026 Community Member of the Year Award
Extra love to our founder Valeria Fernández and Altavoz Lab alumna Claudia Yaujar- Amaro and ally and collaborator Mia Warren.
#Journalism #LocalNews #AltavozLab
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May 18
Meet our 2026 Altavoz Lab Fellow Luis De León, from Louisville, KY. reporting for @Laesquinaky
Luis is a journalist exploring Latino communities & migration.
🎥 Watch his intro video.
Luis is mentored by José Luis Castillos, founder of @LaEsquinatx, & alumni of Altavoz Lab.
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May 15
🎥 Stories That Move: Video for Socials 101 is here!
Join us June 2 for a hands-on FREE virtual workshop on mobile storytelling, editing, and creating scroll-stopping social video with just your phone.
📲 Register: tinyurl.com/VideoforSocial10…
#VideoForSocials #DigitalStorytelling
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May 14
Meet Roberto “Bear” Guerra 📸
Mentor of the Nick Oza Visual Fellowship
Photographer & visual editor at @highcountrynews, focused on people, place & the natural world.
💛 Donate: fundrazr.com/62i5xc?ref=cr_7…
#Photojournalism #CommunityStories #AltavozLab #NickOzaFellowship
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May 13
🎥 ¿Listx para elevar tu storytelling en redes sociales?
Únete el 1 de junio a este workshop virtual GRATUITO práctico para aprender a crear video social impactante usando sólo tu celular.
📲 Regístrate: tinyurl.com/TallerVideospara…
#VideoParaRedes #Periodismo #NarrativaDigital
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May 12
Meet our 2026 mentors ⭐
Dagmar Thiel, Mónica Ortiz Uribe, José Luis Castillo, Perla Trevizo, Brentin Mock, Cindy Carcamo, Mago Torres, Lottie Joiner
Supporting community journalism.
#AltavozLab #communityjournalism #journalism #mentors
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May 11
We launched the Nick Oza Visual Fellowship, naming Gabriela Campos as our inaugural fellow.
Help us raise $50K to make this a permanent program, supporting photojournalists rooted in their communities.
🔗 Donate: fundrazr.com/62i5xc?ref=cr_7…
Support Visual Journalism!
#AltavozLab
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May 7
Meet Lixandra Díaz Portuondo
📍 Philadelphia.
2026 Altavoz Lab Fellow.
Afrocuban journalist reporting on migrant women & public policy for Centro Integral de la Mujer Madre Tierra.
🎥 Intro subtittled video.
Mentored by Dagmar Thiel.
#AltavozLab #MeetOurFellows #community
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May 6
Last week at the Logan Symposium at @ucbsoj, our ED & Founder @valfernandez, interpreting for Estefany Rodríguez, reminded us: journalists like Estefany turn survival into solidarity, and keep reporting despite fear and limited resources.
#LoganSymposium #journalism #AltavozLab
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May 5
Meet Gabriela Campos 📍 Santa Fe, NM
Inaugural Nick Oza Visual Fellow 📸
Documenting the Southwest with intimacy and care.
Her fellowship centers women in NM’s lowrider culture.
🎥 Watch (subtitled) fundrazr.com/62i5xc?ref=cr_7…
#AltavozLab #VisualJournalism
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We’re building space for emerging voices, community stories, and bold ideas. Get exclusive updates, behind-the-scenes insights, fellowships, jobs, and ways to collaborate, delivered first.
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