Rebecca Rivas
Rebecca Rivas covers civil rights, criminal justice and immigration. She has been reporting in Missouri since 2001, most recently as senior reporter and video producer at the St. Louis American, the nation's leading African-American newspaper.
The ‘Adelante method’ helped me succeed as a Latina journalist
How the bilingual newspaper published out of University of Missouri-Columbia developed a community building method that defined a new generation of journalists
Editor’s note: In 2000, I was invited to help create what to this day has been one of the most beautiful journalism projects of my life, and one I think of as the predecessor to The Esperanza Project: Adelante, a bilingual newspaper aimed at bridging the gap between the rapidly growing Latino immigrant population of […]