📍 Based in NYC

✉️ cahidalg@gmail.com

I’m a digital communications strategist and multimedia storyteller from Queens, New York, specializing in mission-driven storytelling, audience engagement and social video strategy.

I currently work as an editor at Youth Communication, where I shape digital content and editorial strategy for two publications serving high school students and youth in foster care.

Recently, I led digital engagement and audience growth for The Bell and Chalkbeat New York, where I developed a social video strategy that dramatically increased Instagram engagement while producing, shooting and editing videos for Instagram and YouTube. I also managed partnerships and outreach.

Previously, I led WNYC’s award-winning youth media program, Radio Rookies, as part of the NPR station’s community partnerships team. There, I developed, led and executed the program’s editorial strategy and communications while handling all day-to-day content production. My work focused on translating complex issues — like housing, justice, health and policing — into engaging audio narratives.

Earlier in my career, I worked as a multimedia reporter and lead visual storyteller at St. Louis Public Radio, covering social movements, justice reform and inequality, and as a staff photographer at the Naples Daily News and the Tampa Bay Times.

I’ve taught at CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and have been selected for several competitive fellowships, including:

• The Solutions Journalism Network’s Journalists of Color fellowship, designed to identify and support diverse next-generation leaders.

• Edit Mode, an intensive story editing program from AIR Media.

• The Google News Initiative’s Product Immersion program.

• An International Women’s Media Foundation fellowship, through which I spent weeks reporting along the United States-Mexico border.

I’ve won more than a dozen awards for my work over the years, including aGracie Award for best radio documentary for Half of My Parents, All of Me, and a Third Coast International Audio Festival award for a podcast episode I reported and produced about a campaign to shut down a notorious St. Louis jail. In 2018, I was named one of The Lit List’s “30 photographers to watch.”

I’ve served as a mentor with NPR’s Next Gen Radio program and AIR’s New Voices program. I’m an alum of the Eddie Adams Workshop, The Kalish Workshop, Mountain Workshops, the Chips Quinn program and the New York Times Student Journalism Institute.

I’m available for freelance photo assignments. Past clients include The New York Times, ProPublica, ESPN’s The Undefeated, The Washington Post, NBC Latino, BuzzFeed News, VICE News and National Geographic.