Meet Katherine Hernandez, Fi2W’s Award-Winning Food Journalism Fellow
A conversation with an emerging voice in food journalism.
A conversation with an emerging voice in food journalism.
Leer en español Hurricane Maria left Angelica Padilla de Arce, a 20-year-old Puerto Rican student, without classes, without a job, and with big economic problems. Padilla was in her third year at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez campus,…
Leer en español After Hurricane Maria, Aidamarys Torres Pardo, a 20-year-old Puerto Rican student, had to move to Hatfield, Pennsylvania in order to save her daughter’s life. Torres suffers from Homocystinuria, a genetic disease that disrupts the body’s metabolism…
Leer en español Christopher Morales, a twenty-year old engineering student at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico sits down in a small and intimate restaurant in San Juan. Quiet and reserved, he lowers his head as he reflects on…
Leer en español Sebastian Maldonado was just starting his first year as an undergraduate when Hurricane Maria destroyed his hometown of Humacao, Puerto Rico, and temporarily shut down his local university. After eating cold food and being without electricity…
Leer en español For Alexander Cabello leaving Puerto Rico was tough. Cabello, a 20-year-old college student who was studying at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (USC) in San Juan, PR, flew out one day before the hurricane without saying goodbye…
Leer en español For Adriana Castillo the hurricane meant suffering and loss. But it also presented an opportunity. Four months after the storm Castillo received an invitation from Arizona State University (ASU) to continue her bachelor’s degree in political…
Leer en español In January 2018, 21-year-old Ivenneth Padilla said goodbye to Puerto Rico and to her family and friends. Hurricane Maria devastated her hometown of Orocovis, located in the center of the island, and completely changed her reality….
Leer en español What can force a person to abandon their home? For Jacnier Ríos Lorenzo it was not being able to continue his studies in communications due to the lack of Internet service after Hurricane Maria. Ríos Lorenzo…
Leer en Español Nashaly Ortiz, a 22-year-old student from Naguabo, a town in southeastern Puerto Rico, remembers the terrifying blow of Hurricane Maria like it was yesterday. The damage the hurricane caused, forced her to leave her family in…