keeping our stories alive with Mariah Espada
Mariah Espada is a Zillenial Nuyorican journalist whose works have been seen on the cover of TIME magazine, Axios Latino, and more. We discussed her journey from growing up in Brooklyn public housing to sitting with some of our culture’s elite.
We had a blast learning more about Mariah, her family, her sources of inspiration, her passion for storytelling, and bringing more Latine representation to journalism. We hope you enjoy it!
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1:20 Meet Mariah
3:05 How being Nuyorican shapes Mariah's work
6:05 Becoming a writer/storyteller
9:45 Breaking boundaries with multimedia storytelling
14:10 Tokenization in legacy media newsrooms
21:20 Bias in the way our communities are covered
28:00 Bad Bunny cover story for TIME Magazine
37:00 Mariah's TikTok walking tour series: Hood History Here
40:25 Gentrified Brooklyn
54:25 Mariah's advice for combating writer's block
58:50 Mariah's advice to her younger self