Altavoz Lab

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.

🔗 https://t.co/I1MUEjPoor 💛

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Una misma tierra documents immigrant communities in Puerto Rico through nuance, memory, and lived experience.

📖+🎥: https://t.co/i8KlmfOOwa & https://t.co/2mXKwCFRmO

🇵🇸 Stay tuned for Palestinian story + updates.

Produced by @9millonespr with the support of Altavoz Lab.

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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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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
🔗 https://t.co/BFgW4yBwpE

#MobileJournalism #Storytelling

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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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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!
🔗 https://t.co/xnVhXiQX4z

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2/2 Help us celebrate and uplift these incredible leaders shaping the future of journalism

Cast your vote and support your favorite nominee here: https://t.co/Mn7AE2Q6hz

Every vote helps recognize the power of community-centered, independent reporting.

#LocalNews #AltavozLab

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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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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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🎥 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: https://t.co/IChffYHRAX

#VideoForSocials #DigitalStorytelling

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Meet Roberto “Bear” Guerra 📸

Mentor of the Nick Oza Visual Fellowship

Photographer & visual editor at @highcountrynews, focused on people, place & the natural world.

💛 Donate: https://t.co/7oujliIbW6

#Photojournalism #CommunityStories #AltavozLab #NickOzaFellowship

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🎥 ¿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: https://t.co/xnVhXiQX4z

#VideoParaRedes #Periodismo #NarrativaDigital

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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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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: https://t.co/7oujliIbW6

Support Visual Journalism!

#AltavozLab

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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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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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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) https://t.co/7oujliIbW6

#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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Big stories don’t just happen, they’re built.

Join Altavoz Lab’s FREE virtual workshop: How to Organize an Ambitious Reporting Project

📝Learn how to plan & manage impactful stories.
Led by Camille Padilla Dalmau

🗓 May 5 | ⏰ 2 PM PT / 5 PM EST
🔗 https://t.co/nzLgZ2vQOD

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Announcing our 2026 Nick Oza Visual Fellow: Gabriela Campos📸

Campos is a NM photojournalist, committed to local storytelling.

This fellowship exists because of the community, because of you.

✨ Support our next fellow in 2027.
🔗 https://t.co/7oujliIbW6

#photojournalism