Amelia Orjuela Da Silva
Amelia Orjuela Da Silva is a senior majoring in digital journalism with a minor in social media and E-marketing analytics. After graduation, she wishes to pursue a career in the entertainment field as a writer/reporter to shine a light on stories that need to be discovered.
Michael Cohen finishes second day of testimony in Trump hush-money trial (includes video story)
Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, testified again in Manhattan yesterday against the former president on day 17 of the hush money trial.
Cohen recounted...
Food pantry in Coconut Grove helps the homeless with groceries and meals (includes video...
In the back of a pink church in Coconut Grove, a group of volunteers gathers every Tuesday morning to prep and deliver food without...
A store in West Kendall has books and more (includes video story)
The Kendall Book Exchange is one of the few remaining secondhand bookstores in Miami-Dade County. Its shelves hold more than 30,000 titles, ranging from...
Brain waste: College-educated adult immigrants struggle to work in their fields in the U.S.
Claudia Londoño recalls her first job in the United States in 2021. She was taught how to fold and manage a rack full of...
Senior immigrants struggle with retirement and health issues during their golden years
Alaide Aquino works the busy evening shift at a Ross department store in Kendall. Though on her feet for eight straight hours assisting customers,...
New apartments rising in West Kendall make residents worry about traffic
In a former strawberry and sunflower farm field in West Kendall, the Altman Companies is building a 342-unit multi-family residential apartment complex along with...
FIU’s Women Center celebrates entrepreneurship at a women’s bazaar (includes video story)
On March 27, the Women's Center at Florida International University (FIU) organized the first International Women's Bazaar in the Biscayne Bay Campus Wolfe University...
Two Venezuelan sisters turn diaspora into thriving entrepreneurship
Mariela Briceño remembers the turning point moment she transformed searing humiliation and anger into her life’s mission.
“It was more than ten years ago when...
Calusa Golf Course controversy continues and wildlife is the only winner
In the year since an appellate court halted a developer's plan to build 550 houses on the closed Southwest Miami-Dade Calusa Golf Course, wildlife...
Venezuela: Why do I feel like a foreigner in my own country?
It is midday, and I’m walking on the sunny streets of Caracas in a busy part of town called ‘Boulevard Sabana Grande.’ Around me,...