Brenda León
Latino Communities Reporter, Report For AmericaBrenda León is a corps member with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms. Brenda covers the Latino/a, Latinx community with an emphasis on wealth-based disparities in health, education and criminal justice.
Before coming to Connecticut Public, she completed a Master's degree in Spanish-Language Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. She attended Lehman College at the City University of New York (CUNY), where she studied Multimedia Journalism with a concentration in Political Science. While there, she was a presenter at WWRL La Invasora 1600 AM. Her work has been published by The Gothamist, Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN), El Deadline and the Mott Haven Herald.
In her free time, Brenda enjoys cooking, going on long walks with her son Leo and caring for her plants.
You can email her at bleon@ctpublic.org and follow her on Twitter at @bleonesx.
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Hartford is facing a shortage of bilingual teachers. The district is addressing the problem by recruiting teachers from Puerto Rico. Several school leaders from Hartford head to the island this week. Connecticut Public Radio’s Brenda León visited the classroom of one teacher from Puerto Rico who arrived a year ago. -
Immigrant rights groups from across Connecticut rallied in front of the Abraham A. Ribicoff Federal Building in Hartford on Thursday. -
Connecticut business incubator and the state’s largest workforce development agency have partnered to form The Alliance for Cannabis Equity, Thursday. It released a “quote” Cannabis Manifesto a resource for Black and Brown entrepreneurs interested in the growing industry. -
CT Youth call for more support in mental health as survivors of gun violence where young people affected by the crisis helped lead the conversation. -
Tech leaders in Hartford have announced a new partnership that will commit to hiring young people in the IT field. The city of Hartford will help fund it with $600,000 from federal pandemic relief dollars provided by the American Rescue Plan. -
West Hartford’s police department purchased 140 body cameras that will be used by patrol officers, starting February 14. The department has trained officers to use the recently purchased cameras, after a trial period with three different companies they chose the Arizona-based company, Axon. -
After being laid off during the pandemic, four McDonald’s service plaza workers celebrated their victory in a labor dispute on Thursday morning outside Darien’s I-95 rest stop. The National Labor Relations Board recently ordered Michell Enterprises to rehire the employees with back pay, interest and compensation for expenses related to new job searches. -
Two years ago, Connecticut passed Public Act 19-12, which requires all high schools in the state to offer courses on African, Black, Puerto Rican and Latino studies beginning in 2022.But what exactly will students be learning? Connecticut Public Radio’s Brenda León takes us inside a classroom piloting the course and explores what’s included in the Latino studies part of the curriculum. -
Hundreds gathered on Saturday for a Day of the Dead celebration in New Haven’s Fair Haven neighborhood. The 11th annual parade, hosted by Unidad Latina en Acción, was a celebration with the objective of keeping alive the memory of loved ones who have passed away. -
President Joe Biden made two stops in Connecticut to honor the Dodd family and to support childhood education.
