Lesley Cosme Torres
Education ReporterLesley Cosme Torres is an Education Reporter at Connecticut Public. She reports on education inequities across the state and also focuses on Connecticut's Hispanic and Latino residents, with a particular focus on the Puerto Rican community. Her coverage spans from LGBTQ+ discrimination in K-12 schools, book ban attempts across CT, student mental health concerns, and more. She reports out of Fairfield county and Hartford.
Prior to her current position, Lesley was a Spanish misinformation reporter for the Miami Herald where she focused on misinformation targeting Latino communities.
She received her master's degree in journalism from UC Berkeley with an emphasis on investigative reporting and covering Latino communities in the U.S. Lesley earned her undergraduate degree at Penn State University where she was a reporter for the Centre Daily Times and the Daily Collegian.
Her reporting has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered, WLRN, and KQED.
Lesley can be reached at ltorres@ctpublic.org.
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Connecticut public school teachers gathered with Capital Community College students and professors at the Old State House in Hartford earlier this month. -
Connecticut is set to open the state’s first school for LGBTQ+ students and allies. PROUD Academy will open in New Haven next fall. -
A budget proposal presented by Gov. Ned Lamont would slash nearly $360 million in university funding over two years. -
Gov. Ned Lamont, a Democrat, said the move will ensure that all students have equal access to free lunch, regardless of socioeconomic status. -
The Diyanet Mosque of New Haven is collecting items to send overseas to earthquake victims.
