Latina Women in the Professional Environment: The Other Side of Journalism

Erika Carlos graduated from UCSB in 2019, and after serving at Santa Barbara Independent, Erika worked as a multimedia producer for San Francisco Chronicle for several years. Now, as the Editor in Chief of El Tecolote she is in charge of informing and giving visibility to the Latinx community in the Bay Area. In her own words: “I became a journalist to give a voice to people and communities that are often overlooked or marginalized. This role is an opportunity to do work that is dear to my heart and to build on El Tecolote‘s incredible legacy of community journalism.”

El Tecolote: Founded in August 1970, El Tecolote Newspaper is published by the San Francisco-based arts and media nonprofit Acción Latina, whose mission is to promote cultural arts, community media, and civic engagement as a way of building healthy and empowered Latina/o/x communities.

El Tecolote has received recent support from national funders such as Borealis Philanthropies, the Lenfest Institute, American Press Institute, and Solutions Journalism Network. Partnerships with organizations such as Report for America and Catchlight Local have also made it possible to hire a full time staff photographer. El Tecolote will also serve as a host ne wsroom for the 2025-2026 journalism cohort for the California Local News Fellowship led by the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.