We are so excited to be back with Season 2 of Cerdan Stories!

In this first episode, we talk with Luisa Ortiz-Perez, a journalist and activist from Mexico City now living in California. Luisa cares deeply about the traumas experienced by journalists, especially women journalists from Latin America, and works in different ways to heal that pain. She co-founded the non-profit Vita-Activa and was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University last year, where she wrote a play about journalists called A Human Condition. Hear more from Luisa in this episode.

The featured song on this episode is Cancion Sin Miedo by Vivir Quintana. You can listen to the full song on YouTube. Thank you to Vivir Quintana for writing this moving song and to Luisa for sharing it with us. 

I want to thank Montana Skies for their song Gringo Flamenco, which played at the top of this podcast and which we got from Free Music Archives. 

I also want to thank my new producer and editor Leyla Doss, originally from Egypt and now living in NY, without whom this podcast wouldn’t sound nearly as excellent. And to also say thank you to Katie Hanford, a Penn graduate student, who is helping with our social media. 

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