In this virtual seminar presented by Oakland Voices, award winning documentary filmmaker and UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism professor Andrés Cediel will discuss best practices for journalists covering undocumented immigrant communities in the United States as well as strategies for meeting the news needs of underserved immigrant communities. Oakland Voices Alumni Coordinator Momo Chang will moderate.

Andrés Cediel is an Emmy award winning documentary filmmaker, and frequent contributor to the PBS program FRONTLINE. His work, which highlighted abuses of immigrants in the workplace and the detention of migrant children, has been produced in collaboration with the Associated Press, ProPublica, CIR, KQED and Univisión. He is Professor-in-Residence at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Momo Chang is the Oakland Voices Alumni Coordinator, a program of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. She is also a freelance journalist focusing her work on healthcare, immigration, education, Asian American communities, food, and culture. She is a former staff writer at the Oakland Tribune.

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Covering Migrant Communities with Andrés Cediel