Teresa Cotsirilos
Immigration reporterTeresa Cotsirilos was a reporter at KALW covering labor rights and public health in the Bay Area’s immigrant communities.
Prior to joining KALW, Teresa worked as a reporter and occasional host at KYUK, where she covered public safety and climate change in Western Alaska’s indigenous communities. Her work there won seven statewide journalism awards, including Best Investigative Reporting in 2018.
Teresa's work has appeared in the New York Times, Reveal, Weekend Edition, The California Report, the Nation and other publications. She received her M.A. from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where her thesis won the Reva and David Logan Prize for Excellence in Investigative Reporting.
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Californians voted to give certain corporations a pass on state labor laws last night.Under Prop 22, gig companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash will… -
From Santa Rosa to Salinas, farmworkers are harvesting as California burns. Workers are risking heat, smoke, and COVID-19 to pick grapes and harvest… -
In Alameda County, more than one out of every ten COVID-19 cases can be traced back to a single neighborhood’s zip code. Fruitvale is a dense,… -
Climate change is intensifying California’s wildfires, and in many cases, low-wage immigrant workers like Socorro are cleaning up after them. Now, they’re… -
Many of the extraordinary consequences of climate change are happening in a way we can't immediately feel in our everyday lives — like desertification, sea-level rise, mass human migration. But for Californians, there is one glaring exception: Wildfires. Over the last several years, they’ve become a constant presence in our lives, and the long-term effects of wildfire smoke is worse for some than others. In this episode, we start with the story of Ta'Kira Dannette Byrd, an 11-year-old girl who lives in Vallejo. Then, we hear why some domestic workers' jobs could get even riskier. -
Black Lives Matter might be the largest social movement in American history. Last month, an estimated 15 to 26 million people took to the streets to… -
While many organizers have told protesters to socially distance and wear masks, public health experts fear the Bay Area’s demonstrations could still fuel… -
Between 10 and 30 percent of California’s essential workers are undocumented. But because of immigration status, they don’t qualify for some of the social… -
In April, nearly 4,000 Mission District residents volunteered to get tested for COVID-19 and its antibodies. Unidos en Salud released the results of that… -
Domestic workers are using lessons learned from California’s wildfires to support their communities through the COVID-19 pandemic. They’re also pushing…
