Rommel Ojeda Will Speak on Climate Change at NYC's Guttman Community College

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Pulitzer Center grantee Rommel Ojeda will visit Guttman Community College on December 5, 2024, to share his reporting on climate change within New York City. While on campus, he will visit classes and speak with students about his career and his Pulitzer Center-supported reporting “New York City’s Flooding Crisis in the Age of Climate Change.”

The Hollis neighborhood in Queens has been flooding for nearly a century; current residents live in fear whenever it rains. Despite the danger caused by more frequent and heavier rainfall, illegally converted basement apartments remain prevalent as one of the few affordable options for low-income New Yorkers, many of them migrants, placing them at high risk as severe flooding continues in the city.  

Ojeda is a bilingual journalist and filmmaker based in New York City. He is the community correspondent for Documented. His work focuses on immigration and issues affecting the Latinx communities in New York.