Maria Esquinca

Maria Esquinca

Producer, The Bay

María Esquinca is a producer of The Bay. Before that, she was a New York Women’s Foundation IGNITE Fellow at Latino USA. She worked at Radio Bilingue where she covered the San Joaquin Valley.  Maria has interned at WLRN, News 21, The New York Times Student Journalism Institute and at Crain’s Detroit Business as a Dow Jones News Fund Business Reporting Intern. She is an MFA graduate from the University of Miami. In 2017, she graduated  from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication with a Master of Mass Communication. A fronteriza, she was born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico and grew up in El Paso, Texas.

By Maria Esquinca
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A Conversation With Banko Brown's Chosen Family

How SF Hopes to Make This Critical Opioid Addiction Treatment More Available

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The Tech Employees Who Want to Sever Silicon Valley’s Deep Ties With Israel

A BART train above two streets intersecting

Displacing People for 'Progress' — the Origins of BART

'I Am Still Haunted': Women Accuse Rising SF Political Star of Rape and Abuse

Naatak Theatre, a Staple of Indian American Life in the South Bay

A Black woman in a red dress sits in front of a microphone.

Berkeley Schools Chief Testifies Before Congress on Antisemitism

Billionaire-Backed Bid for New Solano County City Will Likely Be on the Ballot

How The Bay Gets Made

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