📍 Based in NYC

Available for freelance assignments

✉️ cahidalg@gmail.com

I’m a journalist, audio producer, educator and program leader from Queens, New York.

Currently, I work as an editor at Youth Communication, a nonprofit writing program for high schools students and youth in foster care.

Previously, I was the senior producer on WNYC’s community partnerships team, where I oversaw and managed all aspects of Radio Rookies, the station’s award-winning youth media program. Working alongside teens and young adults, I produced in-depth narrative audio stories about their lives and communities.

I’ve also worked as an editor at The Bell, a nonprofit audio journalism program for teens, where I oversaw outreach, engagement and partnerships. And I’ve taught at CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.

In 2023, I was selected for the Solutions Journalism Network’s inaugural Journalists of Color fellowship, a nine-month program designed to identify and support diverse next-generation leaders.

I’ve participated in Edit Mode, an intensive story editing program from AIR, aimed at diversifying the audio industry’s editor pool.

Previously, I was a senior photojournalist and digital reporter at St. Louis Public Radio, where I covered the aftermath of the 2014 uprising in Ferguson and focused on justice reform, inequality and social movements. I’ve also worked as a staff photographer at the Naples Daily News and the Tampa Bay Times.

In 2023, I won a Gracie Award for best radio documentary for Half of My Parents, All of Me, a radio segment I led, produced and scripted for WNYC Radio.

In 2020, I won 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 2019, I reported from the United States-Mexico border as part of an International Women’s Media Foundation fellowship.

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, NBC Latino, BuzzFeed News, VICE News and National Geographic.