Latino-owned and led media outlets in Phoenix joined forces to keep immigrant communities of Arizona informed.
Joanna Jacobo Rivera
Southwest Editor
About
Joanna Jacobo Rivera is the southwest editor at CALÓ News. She previously worked at La Voz Arizona and The Arizona Republic, part of the USA Today Network, and her work has appeared in La Opinión, Excélsior and Bold Latina. She obtained her masters in social innovation from the Peace and Justice School at the University of San Diego, where she focused her research in looking at how DEI practices strengthen newsrooms and their coverage. Joanna is a So Cal-born, Zacatecas, Mexico-raised Arizonan who enjoys documenting cotton-candy skies via the written word.
The Latino Media Collaborative embarks on a journey to cover Latinos in the Southwest via its central initiative, CALÓ News.
Two bills that would dictate the way in which local officials and law enforcement work with immigration agencies were vetoed in Arizona.