Sabrina Herrera
Latino Initiative EditorSabrina Herrera has held many roles at Connecticut Public, including Community Engagement and Social Media Editor, where she laid the groundwork for the Latino Initiative, and built the station’s first social media team. Sabrina joined Connecticut Public as the social media editor back in 2021.
Today, Sabrina the is Editor of Connecticut Public's Latino Initiative, ¡Somos Connecticut!.
Somos Connecticut aims to uplift Latine stories and increase Latine representation in news coverage through bilingual reporting, resource-oriented and expanded programming as well as community engagement events.
Sabrina is also host of the narrative podcast, Generation Barney.
Sabrina serves on the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) New England Chapter Board.
Sabrina loves the arts, improv comedy, and people. She is a social person who loves to connect with folks on topics around audience & community engagement, diversity in the news industry, and things to do in Connecticut. She can be reached at sherrera@ctpublic.org.
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A Connecticut-based Latino psychologist and a faith leader share professional insight on how to broach mental health with older generation Latinos in Connecticut. -
La empresaria puertorriqueña de Hartford opera su negocio de café Hasta Luego Friend en un tráiler clásico y fundó un colectivo queer en varios bares de la ciudad. -
The Puerto Rican coffee business owner from Hartford runs Hasta Luego Friend out of a vintage trailer and founded a queer collective at bars around town. -
The license plate comes in addition to the highway and monument erected as a tribute to the legacy of Puerto Rican soldiers. -
Dominicans in Connecticut recognized 182 years of independence in the Dominican Republic Friday. Waterbury celebrated with a symbolic mayor for the day. -
Nearly a century later, the Institute for Puerto Rican Studies at the University of Connecticut is analyzing the cases of 288 Puerto Rico residents, who, in 1917, rejected naturalization as U.S. citizens under the Jones Act. -
En Connecticut, donde el 8% de la población es boricua, ya existe una carretera y un monumento en homenaje al legado de los soldados puertorriqueños.
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Dancers of all backgrounds spend Tuesday nights with traditional Colombian music and dance, thanks to a dance instructor that celebrates her Afro-Colombian culture. -
The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry is celebrating Mexican and Mexican American culture through an exhibition highlighting its puppetry scene from its indigenous roots to present day. -
In Connecticut, where 8% of the population is Puerto Rican, Afro-Caribbean folk traditions found a home following the rise of the Loíza Festival in New Haven in the 1970s.
