Monica Salazar

Monica Salazar is a writer and journalist interested in amplifying stories from immigrant and marginalized communities. For the past two years she has volunteered for the Portland based nonprofit The Immigrant Story, and is working as writer and producer for its podcast, Many Roads to Here.

The sound of dance across borders

March 21, 2021Monica Salazar

Joe Kye’s new single "The Way Out" brings dance, Zoom, and social justice together to address the border crisis.

Telling Oregon’s Hawaiian story

November 12, 2020Monica Salazar

Five Oaks Museum's virtual exhibit 'DISplace' traces the long history of the Hawaiian diaspora in the Northwest.

Reckoning, and walking, with Portland’s past

September 15, 2020Monica Salazar

Kent Ford, a founder of the city's Black Panther Party, links past and future on walking tours of the Albina District.