City of Reno hosts its first-ever Spanish-language virtual chat about the pandemic (audio)
Information about COVID-19 evolves quickly and providing updates city-wide in Spanish can be a challenge.
Cynthia Esparza works in community engagement with the City of Reno’s Neighborhood Services Department. She oversees the city’s Spanish Communications Program and manages the “City of Reno en Español” Facebook page, where the virtual, COVID-19 “charla,” which means “chat,” will take place this Thursday at 4 p.m.
While the city does a monthly segment on Juan 101.7 FM, this is its first Facebook Live event in Spanish.
“It’s a safe space. We want to have questions. We want the community to know that there are representatives who speak their language, so we look forward to that conversation and connecting with the community,” Esparza said.
Councilmember Oscar Delgado, who is bilingual, and other city representatives, will answer questions during the video streaming event.
Participants will also be able to submit questions in real time as comments on the live stream. –CC
Editor’s note: This preview is part of our collaboration with local public radio station, KUNR.
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Natalie Van Hoozer
Natalie is a freelance journalist and translator based in Reno, Nevada who reports in English and Spanish. She also works for the nonprofit SembraMedia, supporting independent, digital Spanish-language media in the United States. Previously she was a Fulbright scholar in Argentina and worked on Latin American projects at the International Center for Journalists. She has also taught university podcasting classes online and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in both journalism and Spanish from the University of Nevada, Reno. For her undergraduate thesis, she researched the landscape of bilingual Spanish-English reporting in the state of California. -- Natalie es periodista y traductora freelance en Reno, Nevada y trabaja en español e inglés. También es embajadora para SembraMedia en Estados Unidos, donde investiga medios independientes y digitales en español en el país. Antes era becaria de Fulbright en la Argentina y trabajé como asistente de programas para el Centro Internacional para Periodistas, enfocada en los proyectos de América Latina. También ha sido profesora universitaria en línea sobre podcasting. Tiene una licenciatura de la Universidad de Nevada, Reno, en periodismo y español. Para la tesis de su licenciatura investigó el ámbito del periodismo bilingüe en inglés y español en el estado de California. Twitter: @NatVanH