Rachel Iacovone
Puerto Rican Communities ReporterRachel Iacovone (ee-AH-koh-VOAN-ay) is a proud puertorriqueña, who joined Connecticut Public to report on her community in the Constitution State. Her work is in collaboration with Somos CT, a Connecticut Public initiative to elevate Latino stories and expand programming that uplifts and informs our Latino communities, and with GFR in Puerto Rico.
A Florida native, Rachel began her public radio career covering politics in the fraught state — from Gov. Ron DeSantis' first gubernatorial run to labor rights issues in the farmworking town, Immokalee, for WGCU Public Media. She then headed to Tennessee in 2019, as first a host and later editor and director at Nashville Public Radio, where she spent six years covering everything from the COVID-19 pandemic to racial justice protests in a city that once hosted some of the first lunch counter sit-ins to deadly tornadoes, the Christmas Day bombing and the Covenant School shooting.
Before all that, she was a food writer in college and never really left that lens behind. She's excited to eat her way through the Connecticut food scene, so please, send recs (and serious story pitches) to her anytime here: riacovone@ctpublic.org.
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Cerca del 85% de los residentes en el complejo Casa Otoñal, en New Haven, son boricuas y participan de una red que integra diversos servicios comunitarios -
Nearly 85% of the residents of Casa Otoñal in New Haven are Puerto Rican and have access to a network that provides various community services.
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Members of the Connecticut-Puerto Rico Trade Commission and Boricua lawmakers are asking Gov. Ned Lamont to step in, as more than 120,000 San Juan area residents remain without water. -
Junio es el Mes del Orgullo Gay. Aquí te ofrecemos una lista de los eventos que se celebrarán en todo Connecticut. -
Nancy Martinez filed a suit against the U.S. government after Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained the mom on her way to take her kids to school in June 2025. -
Cities across the state hosted watch parties for the U.S. match against Paraguay on Friday night. -
El Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, o CENTRO, en Nueva York ofrece un curso autoguiado en el que tanto principiantes como aficionados de la historia aprenderán sobre la identidad puertorriqueña en relación con el idioma, la ciudadanía estadounidense y la raza. -
“Double Exposures”, presentada en El Museo del Barrio, reúne el trabajo de Sophie Rivera que abarca desde décadas de fotografía de retratos hasta fotografías más experimentales. La exhibición se estará presentando hasta el 2 de agosto. -
In their first meeting, commissioners voted to add energy to their main issues of focus. -
La icónica defensora de los derechos laborales, de 96 años, aceptó el premio Living Legend del Simposio Latinas in Leadership, celebrado en el Connecticut Convention Center de Hartford el pasado jueves.
