Irene Rumolo
Participant
Irene Romulo is the co-founding editor of Cicero Independiente, a bilingual news organization in Cicero, IL. She's a past City Bureau reporting fellow, a 2020 Voqal Fellow and an Ida B. Wells Fellow for investigative reporting. Before using journalism to document ignored stories and build power in her community, Irene organized to end deportations and the criminalization of people of color.
We exposed corruption and human rights abuses working in a cross-border network supported by ICFJ.
— Lisseth Boon, Venezuela