Since 2020, Enlace Latino NC and Southerly have been working together on a bilingual reporting project, covering environmental and public health issues in North Carolina’s rural Latinx and immigrant communities.
events
N.C. Latina leaders on how to strengthen community healthcare options
A recap of Southerly and Enlace Latino NC’s panel on healthy equity for Latinx populations in the state.
N.C. Latinx residents on grassroots, policy solutions to the housing crisis
Southerly and Enlace Latino NC hosted a panel with residents and advocates of community-owned mobile home parks.
How N.C.’s failure to translate emergency alerts inspired Latinx organizers to innovate solutions
In the absence of government support, nonprofits and community groups servicing rural Latinx communities created their own inclusive emergency preparedness response.
Reporters
Victoria Bouloubasis is a trilingual journalist and documentary filmmaker from North Carolina. Her work aims to dispel myths about the Global South — its people and places — against the backdrop of complex social, political and personal histories. For more than a decade she has reported stories at the intersection of food, labor and im/migration. She has won awards for her immigration reporting, which includes a story on a deported N.C. teen’s life in El Salvador, and earned a James Beard Award nomination for food writing with local impact. Victoria has reported from the U.S. South, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Greece. She is based in Durham, N.C Contact Victoria: victoriabouloubasis@gmail.com
A year after N.C. fertilizer plant fire, slow progress towards bilingual emergency information
Winston-Salem residents, researchers, and city officials are working to create more tools to reach Spanish speakers.
This rural N.C. farm helps formerly incarcerated women build back their lives, careers
At Benevolence Farm, residents live on site and help produce and sell food. Advocates say it’s a way to address major gaps in the rural…
A fertilizer plant caught fire. Winston-Salem had no plan to alert Spanish-speaking residents.
The city relied on community members and immigrant advocates to translate emergency information. We spoke to residents about their efforts.
A group of moms stopped a crypto mine from building next to an N.C. school
These data processing centers are creating noise pollution in rural areas of the South.
Latinx web developers focus on rural projects through worker-owned co-op
A North Carolina truck driver turned coder uses technology as a gateway to local impact for farmworkers and other rural immigrant communities.Â
Community-owned mobile parks keep eviction at bay. Can they work in North Carolina?
Although Southern states hold the largest share of manufactured housing (mobile homes) in the country, few communities are resident-owned, leaving them vulnerable to developers, and…
N.C. mobile home park residents forced to uproot their home, lives during eviction crisis
A community of homeowners will soon have to move from the land they’ve leased for decades—with nowhere to go.
As N.C. poultry plants failed to curb COVID-19, Latina workers stood in the gap
With little to no protection from their employers or the state during the pandemic, a mother-daughter community health worker duo has helped launch and lead…
Farm cooperatives allow Latinos to grow and sell food on their own terms
In an industry benefiting white farmers, Tierra Fértil roots a growing Latino community in Henderson County, N.C.
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