Transgender people experiencing homelessness in multiple San Joaquin Valley cities are traveling to Modesto for emergency housing because, according to one advocate, providers there are better prepared to accommodate them than shelters in places such as Merced. In the last five years, Katalina Zambrano, the executive director at CalPride Valle Central, an LGBTQ+ resource center […]
Author Archives: Alma Villegas
Alma Villegas is a bilingual journalist from Los Angeles, covering English and Spanish community news stories across California.
Villegas' work has been published on Golden Gate Xpress, El Tecolote, CALÓ News and the Merced Sun-Star. In 2017, they launched the project Sur Central Times, a bilingual community news blog about South Central Los Angeles.
Villegas studied journalism at San Francisco State University and believes that community news empowers marginalized communities. Their work is supported through the California Local News Fellowship program.
As a transplant to Merced, Villegas is committed to accurately and fairly representing the voices of Central Valley residents by reporting on the agencies that govern them, the issues that impact them and the stories that celebrate them.
Send Alma Villegas your news tips and story ideas at avillegas@cvlocaljournalism.org.
