Teresa Cotsirilos is an award-winning audio journalist who covers immigration for KALW in San Francisco. Her project explores climate change’s impact on California’s low-wage immigrant workers.

A graduate of Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, Teresa previously covered criminal justice and climate change for KYUK in Western Alaska. Her work won seven statewide journalism awards, including Best Investigative Reporting in all mediums in 2018. She has produced work for the New York Times, Weekend Edition, The California Report Magazine, KQED, Alaska News Nightly and a range of other publications.

Prior to becoming a journalist, Teresa sold eyepatches at San Francisco’s 826 Valencia and taught sex education in rural Namibia. Share news tips with her at immigration [at] kalw [dot] org.