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Esther Honig

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As seen in: StoryCorps, HuffPost, NPR, PBS NewsHour, Health News Florida, Mother Jones, WUSF Public Media, The Nation, WBUR-FM (Boston, MA), The World from PRX, KCRW-FM (Santa Monica, CA) and
Covers:  Agriculture, migration, immigration policy, climate change, Marijuana industry, rural issues,
Producer @storycorps. Find me on Blue Sky. Esp/Eng. Bylines @thenation @motherJones @snapjudgment @NPR @LatinoUSA | '21 UC Berkeley 11th hour fellow

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Esther Honig has worked as a reporter across the Midwest, in Colorado and internationally in Mexico. A fluent Spanish-speaker, she works primarily in audio to tell stories about agriculture, U.S. immigration policy and rural issues. Her work has been featured by dozens of outlets, including NPR, PRI The World, Marketplace, Mother Jones Magazine, and Latino USA.

Her investigation with Ted Genoways into the outbreaks of COVID-19 at JBS meatpacking plants was cited in a 2020, US Senate investigat…

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Map to the Disappeared - Snap Judgment

Map to the Disappeared - Snap Judgment

A woman in Veracruz, Mexico receives a map from a pair of anonymous strangers that leads her on a search to s…

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Farmworkers Recall Mistreatment as Colorado Aims to Guarantee Medical Access

Farmworkers Recall Mistreatment as Colorado Aims to Guarantee Medical Access

SAN LUIS VALLEY, Colo. - A woman with pregnancy complications needed permission from her boss to visit a doct…

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The Story Behind Your Salad: Farmworkers, Covid-19, and a Dangerous Commute

The Story Behind Your Salad: Farmworkers, Covid-19, and a Dangerous Commute

It's one in the morning and the stars are out as hundreds of people shuffle slowly along the wall that marks …

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In Mexico, shuttered cemeteries mean financial ruin for thousands of flower farmers

In Mexico, shuttered cemeteries mean financial ruin for thousands of flower farmers

Day of the Dead is usually one of the most profitable times of the year. Families buy dozens of flowers to bu…

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How The Family Members Of Meat Plant Workers In Nebraska Became Advocates Amid Pandemic (VIDEO) -...

How The Family Members Of Meat Plant Workers In Nebraska Became Advocates Amid Pandemic (VIDEO) -...

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic, meatpacking plant workers were some of the hardest hit. In late Ap…

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"The workers are being sacrificed": As cases mounted, meatpacker JBS kept people on crowded facto...

"The workers are being sacrificed": As cases mounted, meatpacker JBS kept people on crowded facto...

The coronavirus is a rapidly developing news story, so some of the content in this article might be out of da…

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Son reflects with his mother about growing up with autism

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By Esther Honig , Alan Jinich
| kanw.org
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's Friday, which means it's time for StoryCorps. Jhovana Figueroa was raising her son on her own in Queens, New York. At 3 years old, Anthony wasn't speaking and was diagnosed with autism. Ten years later, Jhovana brought Anthony to StoryCorps. JHOVANA FIGUEROA: Anthony, what are you hope for the future? ANTHONY FIGUEROA: Well, when I was a kid, I wanted to become an astronaut, but now I don't really think so.
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Son reflects with his mother about growing up with autism

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By Esther Honig , Alan Jinich
| WGVU-FM (Grand Rapids, MI)
Jhovana Figueroa was diagnosed with autism when he was a toddler. For StoryCorps, Figueroa and his mom talk about his childhood and their hopes for the future.
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