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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This story was updated with additional reporting on March 18, 2020 at 8:21pm.The Bay Area’s historic shelter-in-place order is intended to slow the spread… -
Climate change is fueling devastating wildfires in California, and in some cases, low-wage immigrant workers are cleaning up after them. They sweep ash… -
In October 2019, a stretch of dry weather and strong winds sparked dozens of wildfires across California, killing three people and destroying hundreds of… -
Proposition E is trying to play hardball with San Francisco’s housing crisis. The measure states that if San Francisco can’t build more housing, it can’t… -
Some of San Francisco’s most popular neighborhoods have an empty storefront problem. In North Beach, one in every five storefronts were vacant in 2018.… -
Last January, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can begin implementing its expanded “public charge” rule, which could systematically… -
On January 1, California became the first state in the country to extend Medicaid benefits to all low-income adults, regardless of their immigration… -
In 2019, the United Nations reported that an unprecedented number of people have been forced to flee their home countries. Over 70 million people are… -
In 2019, the UN’s Refugee Agency reported that an unprecedented number of people had been forced to flee their home countries. Over 70 million people are… -
The H-1B is one of the most commonly-used work visas in the United States, and the Trump Administration is denying them at a record rate. Data reporter…
