Anna-Catherine Brigida

GlobalPost

Anna-Catherine Brigida recently graduated from USC Annenberg with a degree in print and digital journalism. At Annenberg, she worked as a reporter and multimedia editor for the community news website Intersections South LA. She covers homelessness, education and immigration.

A group of migrants cross a shallow river and met with border agents in green uniforms.

Some Salvadoran migrants look to other nations for refuge as US tightens border

March 13, 2019Immigration

For some Salvadorans, the promise of the “American Dream” has been tainted by coordinated deterrence efforts from Mexico and the United States. They’re looking to places like Costa Rica for refuge — for now.

Coatepeque Lake is seen from a road in the town of El Congo, El Salvador, Sept. 6, 2017. The color of the water in the Coatepeque lake has changed due to the proliferation of Cyanobacteria and non-identified minerals.

Around the world, the environment is finally getting its day in court

April 23, 2018Environment

Rescue workers search through rubble during a floodlit search for students at Enrique Rebsamen school in Mexico City on Sept. 20, 2017.

Mexico City rescuers find survivors and fatalities in a collapsed school

September 20, 2017Environment

Workers at Los Chanchitos restaurant in Buenos Aires took over the business when they thought they were all going to be out of work.

Afraid of losing their jobs, workers take over the business

February 23, 2017Economics

With birth control, US not alone grappling with reproductive rights and religious freedom

July 30, 2016Politics

Trauma lingers in US for Honduran family scarred by gang murder (VIDEO)

July 30, 2016Agence France-Presse

M3-13 chased this family out of San Pedro Sula after killing the husband and father. The mother and three kids now live in Los Angeles after crossing into the US illegally.

Mexico ‘a death trap for migrants’ one year after new border program launched

July 30, 2016Justice

Though last year’s influx of Central American migrants spawned reform, migrants remain easy prey.

How one man escaped El Salvador’s cycle of violence

July 30, 2016Agence France-Presse

At seven years old, Alex Sanchez and his brother fled El Salvador’s Civil War for an uncertain future in Los Angeles.