StoryReach U.S. Fellow Jasmine Aguilera Will Join Truman Research Symposium

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StoryReach U.S. Fellow Jasmine Aguilera will visit Harry S. Truman College in Chicago on Thursday, April 23, 2026, to participate in the campus’s annual Truman Symposium of Student Research and Creative Activity as part of Earth Week 2026.

During her visit, Aguilera will attend student presentations, participate in a luncheon, and take part in a panel discussion where she will be interviewed by students and speak about her career and her award-winning, Pulitzer Center-supported project, A Poisoned Community.

Aguilera is the audience and collaboration strategist for the ProPublica and Texas Tribune Investigative Unit. Previously, she served as a senior health equity reporter and editor at El Tímpano, a Bay Area nonprofit newsroom covering the region’s Latino and Mayan immigrant communities.