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Deepa Fernandes

Deepa Fernandes is a journalist who has covered guerrilla insurgencies, natural disasters and political coups in countries from Haiti to East Timor. Most recently she was the Early Childhood Development Correspondent for KPCC.  Prior to Southern California Public Radio, Deepa was a national anchor for the Pacifica Radio network, she founded and ran a national non-profit that aimed to diversify the ranks of journalism by training new reporters in communities of color, and she was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford in 2012. She has an MA from Columbia University.
Khafre Jay, the executive director of Hip Hop for Change, based in Oakland, says he has experienced anti-black actions from Indian Americans when visiting his in-laws in Sunnyvale, a suburb of the Bay Area that is majority South Asian.
A Black radio host calls on South Asian Americans to reject racism
Hossanna Pacheco, bottom left; her mother Mireya Pacheco, top left; sister Mireyari Pacheco; and sister Nefthali Pacheco at their home in Los Angeles.
Education
Virtual schooling poses extra challenges for English-language learners
A portrait of Norma Ramirez.
Global Nation Education
Trump ended DACA. This woman is suing to keep the program alive.
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Displacement
USC students work with refugees to engineer solutions for better camp life
Two young children are shown playing with a grocery cart with container homes shown in the background.
Women & Gender
Mothers and babies lack basic needs in Greek refugee camps
A grandmother wearing a blue shirt, stands to the left of her daughter wearing a red dress who is standing next to her son.
Refugees
These asylum-seekers won their refugee cases in Greece. Some wish they hadn’t.
A woman riding a wave
An Olympic hopeful from Senegal hopes to inspire more black women to surf
One woman wears an white protective suit and has a large plastic jug strapped to her back; another woman stands next to her as both inspect a branch of a bush.
Aboriginal rangers use traditional knowledge to protect their lands
A group of Aboringinal women are shown sitting during a Sunday picnic in Telegraph Station in Alice Springs.
As more Aboriginal children are removed from families, critics say government risks a second Stolen Generation
The Uluru rock formation is seen off in the distance with the sun rising across the sky.
Australia returned Uluru to Aboriginals 34 years ago. They’re only just now banning tourists from climbing the sacred site.
un barco de pesca en el mar de cortez en Mexico
Business, Economics and Jobs
Con ‘zonas de refugio’, pescadores de Baja California restauran el ecosistema marino
fishing nets in the sea of cortez
Business, Economics and Jobs
With no-fishing zones, Mexican fishermen restored the marine ecosystem
Máxima Acuña-Atalaya de Chaupe
Environment
A US corporation wants to raze a gold-rich mountain in Peru. Meet the woman who stands in its way.
Farm workers repair irrigation pipes during spring planting
Jobs
Undocumented workers fight for wages under the threat of deportation
A portrait of 10-year-old Levi Draheim with brown-blonde curly hair.
Justice
This 10-year-old was already suing the government over climate policy. Then climate change really hit home.
A close-up of a giant land tortoise in the Santa Cruz highlands of the Galápagos Islands.
Science
These kids are hoping to save Galapagos tortoises — and their own home — from climate change
Elvira Mauricia Diaz standing center with her family against a stone wall backdrop.
Health
With kids’ health suffering, one Guatemalan town is trying to adapt to climate change.
Flor Bautista holds her daughter Camila in her arms, both looking directly at camera.
Health
These children suffered for months after extreme weather wrecked their town in Peru
Satellite Beach has rejected the anything-goes approach of much of Florida, and the city wants its new boutique hotel to be a model for environmentally responsible development. But is even one new building in this region one too many?
Development
This new green building may be just the thing to help a Florida town stand up to climate change. Or not.
Houses in this Florida neighborhood are perched at the edge of a rapidly-eroding part of the town of Satellite Beach. The town is one of the few in the state that's investing in a major plan to shore itself up against the rising seas and stronger storms b
Environment
One small Florida city tries to adapt to climate change, mostly alone
Magali Torres
Education
For one immigrant in Florida, a DACA fix would mean ‘peace of mind’
A worker with a microphone educates other workers about their rights
Jobs
Lessons for Hollywood’s women from tomato pickers in Florida
Isabela pier, Galapagos Islands
Environment
Is tourism harming the Galápagos Islands?
Migrant family Guatamala
Environment
Guatemala’s changing climate is forcing families to leave their homes, livelihoods
Organic banana trees are not producing bananas fit for export due to extreme weather changes in Piura, Peru.
Environment
The latest victims of extreme weather: grapes and bananas
Woman crosses a flooded street in Piura, Peru.
Environment
Before Houston flooded, there was Piura, Peru
A photo of Jose Lopez Ramirez, 17 shows on a smartphone.
Conflict
What happens when an undocumented minor dies in the United States?
Conservationists hope building a market for local, shade-grown coffee could help restore vital but degraded scalesia forests on Santa Cruz Island, in the Galapagos.
Business
Humans are damaging the fragile Galapagos ecosystem. Maybe coffee can help save it.
The family hangs out at their home in Sensuntepeque.
Justice
These American kids are adapting to new lives in El Salvador after their dad was deported
Luis Duarte, second from right, who is now caring for his three younger siblings after his parents, originally from Mexico, were detained by US immigration agents
Justice
What happens when mom and dad face deportation
Police interrogate a suspected gang member against a wall with his hands behind his head.
Conflict
Will Trump continue Obama’s program to aid Central American teens fleeing gangs?
young boy on sidewalk in front of flowers
Conflict
A brother and sister flee gang violence in El Salvador and start over in the US
Artisanal mining
Jobs
El Salvador’s new metal-mining ban is terrifying for ‘artisanal’ miners
Cuba tourists
Culture
Havana’s small business boom exposes a stark racial divide
Cuban youth
Economics
In Cuba, young people are weighing professional dreams against the allure of the new economy
Fidel Castro
Development
Post-Fidel Castro Cuba isn’t that different from before
Transformistas
Culture
Cuba’s transformistas bring their drag performances out in the open
Small business owner Mady Zulueta outside her store, Zulu, in a prime area of Old Havana, Cuba.
Economics
Uncertain what’s next, Cubans go about their business while they wait for a signal from Trump
Normal Guillard
Development
How life has changed for these Cuban women over 20 years
World City Center Preschool
Education
Listen: A preschool lesson in sharing those post-election feelings
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Education
Parents and students rallied to keep this indigenous language school open
Conflict & Justice
Fate of Deportees in Liberia