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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José Buscaglia Guillermety, de 88 años, colabora con la Iniciativa de Estudios Puertorriqueños de la Universidad de Connecticut para catalogar su obra para las próximas generaciones. -
88-year-old José Buscaglia Guillermety is working with the University of Connecticut’s Puerto Rican Studies Initiative to catalog his art for the next generation.
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Los miembros de la Comisión Comercial Connecticut-Puerto Rico y los legisladores boricuas están pidiendo la intervención del gobernador Ned Lamont, mientras que más de 120,000 residentes del área de San Juan siguen sin agua. -
The Puerto Rican attorney is the president of the National Immigration Law Center and lives in New Haven, where she served as deputy mayor. -
La abogada puertorriqueña vive en New Haven, fungió como vicealcaldesa y es la ahora presidenta del Centro Nacional de Leyes de Inmigración. -
La abogada de inmigración de East Hartford, Erin O'Neil, afirmó que la decisión del tribunal respalda "la esencia misma" de la Decimocuarta Enmienda. “Eso, gracias a Dios, se ha preservado”, señaló. -
East Hartford immigration attorney Erin O'Neil said the court’s ruling "goes to the core fundamental foundation" of the 14th Amendment. “That, thank God, has been preserved,” she said.
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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.
