Erica Hellerstein is an award-winning reporter based in California, where she covers labor, immigration, and the economy for El Tímpano. She has more than a decade of experience covering global human rights issues, reporting on-the-ground everywhere from Ukraine to East Africa and across Latin America. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Marie Claire, and Elle, among other outlets, and has been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists, the Online News Association, the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Philip D. Reed Award for Environmental Writing, SPJ NorCal, the San Francisco Press Club, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, and the Clay Felker Prize for Excellence in Longform Print Journalism.