Claudia Rivera-Cotto now covers political, government and immigration issues in North Carolina for Enlace Latino NC. Claudia is part of Report for America. During her time with WWG, she was pursuing a master’s degree in Investigative and Data Journalism from the University of Missouri. Rivera-Cotto has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and English from the University of Puerto Rico, where she was also co-director of Pulso Estudiantentil News. She also interned at the Public Broadcasting Corporation and the Center for Investigative Journalism and was a research assistant for Brown University’s Opening the Archives Project at the U.S. National Archives. At the University of Missouri, she was a research assistant to Cristina Mislán, an associate professor of journalism studies, on a study of climate justice in Brown and Black communities.