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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Santa Clara County’s Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to retain their sanctuary policy on Tuesday. South Bay officials were compelled to review the…
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Latino workers are more likely to die at work than anyone else, and immigrant workers can be particularly at risk.Jesus Silva Romero fell from a…
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is targeting long-time residents with criminal convictions, most of whom have lived in the US since fleeing the…
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Becoming a citizen is taking longer and getting tougher, and in California, there aren’t enough legal aid attorneys to go around. Meet one group of Bay…
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Last week, a New York judge blocked the Trump Administration’s efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. Bay Area leaders are applauding…