Cecilia Nowell

Cecilia Nowell is a Brooklyn-based reporter covering gender and Latin America. She hails from New Mexico and has reported from Chile and Argentina. Her work has appeared in Al Jazeera English, NACLA, NPR's LatinoUSA, and others.

A close-up section of several rows of embroided protest art showing bleeding eyes.

In Chile, women use traditional embroidery to urge political change

February 18, 2020Protest

As Chileans call for change, many women have turned to a form of artistic protest dating back to the dictatorship era: political embroidery.