Welcome Barbara Estrada (@hollaitsbarbara), host of the @workinprogressmedia podcast, to the @immigrationmicpodcast, recorded at the @hgab_studios in Miami, Florida!

In this episode, Barbara talks to us about the beginnings of her journalism career in college that shaped her passion for international news/ storytelling (6:07), her experience reporting at the US-Mexico border during the Hatian refugee crisis (18:16), we discuss objectivity vs advocacy in journalism (21:30), her transition from working in corporate media (26:30), starting @workinprogressmedia, first as a blog, which has now become a podcast, “a global podcast about ordinary, extraordinary people in their 20s” (31:03), and her words of inspiration for other upcoming journalists: “really remember why you joined in the first place.” (39:23)

*I open the show talking about where I’m at relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as a bonus, I include a clip of my recent interview with @platformlatino talking about the beginnings of the Immigration MIC Podcast and include clips from the interviews with Rosa Velasquez (E22), and Luz (E38). 

Barbara’s Website www.barbaraestrada.com 

Work In Progress Podcasthttps://apple.co/3dBTCtH

Work In Progress Bloghttps://bit.ly/2UHpODq

Inside the Lives of the LGBTQI in Greecehttps://bit.ly/3atcIQO

Barbara reporting on the Hatian refugee crisis (2016)https://bit.ly/2WOaiIF

#Brownish: DNA Results Teaserhttps://bit.ly/33VrhtS