Author: ROSA GUEVARA

Hi Sandra, (Sandra Lilley, editor of NBC News Digital – NBC Latino)

Hope to find you well, it’s been so long since we’ve spoken! I’m currently working on a feature story regarding the Venezuelan migrants arriving to New York City.

My main focus is as the holidays are coming, I’d like to report where a majority of the children of Venezuelan parents are doing emotionally and physically at a time we are in.

I want to take this feature and focus it on the education they’re receiving, the food they are also consuming once school is over, and how they spend their afternoons or how they will be spending their time during the holidays.

Another thing I’d like to also include the non-profit organizations that are helping the families out. This includes clothing distributions, food-pantries, mental health services and more. Despite the city of New York helping the Venezuelan community with services such as, food stamps, housing, and cash assistance. I’d still like to know whether these non-profit organizations are strictly helping this community.

Let me know what you think, Sandra!

All my best,

Rosa Guevara

The beat that I chose has decided to be reporting on the LGBTQ+ community in Russia.

Nonetheless the LGBTQ+ community has been supported by countries like Armenia and Belarus. Other countries have expressed their homophobia through different legislative laws. Organizations in New York have created support groups for those in the LGTBQ community in NYC that are asylum and refugees who are in need of mental health support, peer support groups, health and wellness programs and emergency cash. 

One of the main goals for this coverage is to shed a more larger issue on the LGBTQ+ community now that Ukraine and Russia are at war while also many Russian’s not wanting to be apart of the war but also having to flee due to their rights in the LGBTQ+ community. The languages that are spoken in Russia are a variety of them while they also share a Russian Orthodox Christian religion. 

The country I’d like to do my reporting on is Russia. I’d like to bring more awareness to the homophobia that has been occurring in this country since January 2013 when President Vladimir Putin signed a bill that, “a law outlawing propaganda of “nontraditional sexual relations,” thus enacting a federal ban that violates the constitutionally guaranteed rights of a community he is sworn to protect.” This has led to the migration of Russians arriving to the United States seeking either asylum or are refugees from their country. 

Nonetheless the LGBTQ+ community has been supported by countries like Armenia and Belarus. Other countries have expressed their homophobia through different legislative laws. Organizations in New York have created support groups for those in the LGTBQ community in NYC that are asylum and refugees who are in need of mental health support, peer support groups, health and wellness programs and emergency cash. 

One of the main goals for this coverage is to shed a more larger issue on the LGBTQ+ community now that Ukraine and Russia are at war while also many Russian’s not wanting to be apart of the war but also having to flee due to their rights in the LGBTQ+ community. The languages that are spoken in Russia are a variety of them while they also share a Russian Orthodox Christian religion.