Sahan Journal

Sahan Journal is a one-month-old, digital-only news website whose mission is to provide fair, groundbreaking coverage that illuminates issues affecting Minnesota immigrants and refugees, and to chronicle how these communities are changing and redefining what it means to be a Minnesotan. We are expanding our audience by partnering with ethnic news media in the state and Minnesota Public Radio News, one of the largest newsrooms in Minnesota.

Current Position

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Beat: Education of Hmong Somali Latino and other immigrant students

Position:

The largest immigrant population in Minnesota is Latino, and its Somali community is the largest in the nation. The state boasts the second-largest Hmong population in the U.S. This RFA corps reporter will exclusively focus on the education of immigrant and refugee students, looking at how the education system serves them—or doesn't.

Reporter: Becky Dernbach