Wilson Liévano

(Graphic by Wilson Liévano. Original photo by Dave Zajac/Record-Journal) Working through language barriers in healthcare Lea este artículo en Español Main page MERIDEN, CT – Maria Canales was her family’s English-to-Spanish translator growing up.  She began going with her parents to medical appointments when she was nine. Her family had recently moved to Connecticut from

Wilson Liévano is GroundTruth’s Managing Editor. Previously he ran Animated Press, his motion graphics studio, where he focused on the intersection between visual technologies and journalism. Before that, he coordinated the online editorial operations of Spanish-language edition of The Wall Street Journal. </br> </br> He has a Masters degree in journalism from Boston University and was a John S. Knight Fellow in 2013 and a Maynard 200 Fellow in 2018.

In 1999 Inácio França, then a reporter in Recife, traveled through the Northeast of Brazil documenting the advance of desertification in the region. The series of stories he wrote served as a curtain raiser for the United Nations’ Conference of the Parties (COP,) a forum where experts discussed the dangers of desertification and called upon