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Emily Neil

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I cover entrepreneurs, businesses, and current events.

I am an Editorial Intern for the AL DÍA Leaders team where I cover entrepreneurs, businesses, and current events. I studied at Temple University, switching from film to journalism before graduating in 2020. Outside of the newsroom, I enjoy storytelling through creative writing and short videos. 

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Uva Coles, a leader in workforce development and innovation, has dedicated the bulk of her more than 25-year career in nonprofit and higher education leadership.  Courtesy Uva Coles/Gettyimages

Advocacy

‘Inclusiva’

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Members of Team Latina, including Dr. Linda Maldonado, Glenda Vargas, Leslie Gonzalez, and Nahomie Laurore, project director at the Thea Bowman's Women Center, pose for a photo on Feb. 15 at the Team Latina gathering at Community Center at Visitation in Kensington. Photo: Emily Neil / AL DÍA News.

Advocacy

Team Latina

Podcast
Dr. Concha Alborg poses with a photo of her mother, Concepción Carles, in the background. Photo: Courtesy of Dr. Concha Alborg

Books and Authors

My Mother, that stranger

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Among those best and brightest featured in Netflix's new "Next in Fashion" series is Philly-based designer Nasheil Juliana Ortiz-González, chair of the fashion department at Moore College of Art & Design, whose work is informed by her Boricua identity and her commitment to sustainable, slow fashion. Photo: Samantha Laub / AL DIA News

Heritage and History

Local star 'next in fashion'

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On display at The Print Center in Philadelphia through March 21, an exhibition from Miguel Aragón explores the limits of documenting violence by depicting homicide victims in Ciudad Juárez. Photo: Emily Neil / AL DÍA News 

Heritage and History

Depicting violence in Juárez

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GUANICA, PUERTO RICO - JANUARY 7: A Puerto Rican flag sits in a pile of rubble after a 6.4 earthquake hit just south of the island on January 7, 2020 in Guánica, Puerto Rico. This morning's earthquake was preceded by a series of smaller quakes in the south of the island with the epicenter in Guánica. (Photo by Eric Rojas/Getty Images)

Thought Leaders

Hope for Puerto Rico

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Adrian Mercado of Philly Boricuas lifts the Puerto Rican independence flag, as protesters gathered outside of the Department of Urban Housing and Development offices in Center City, Philadelphia, demanding that HUD release the more than $10 billion in aid allocated to Puerto Rico after Hurricanes María and Irma. Photo: Emily Neil / AL DÍA News

Policy

Powered by the people

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Alexandra Espinoza, Rachel O’Hanlon-Rodriquez, Virginia Sanchez, and Ivan Vila (left to right) participate in an activity during their rehearsal at West Kensington Ministry for the show, "Palante," which will be featured at the First Person Arts Festival. Photo: Emily Neil / AL DÍA News

Books and Authors

Theater in Norris Square

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Corporate

Hispanics in medicine

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La Dra. Carmen Guerra es una de los cuatros doctores honrados para la edición 2020 de AL DÍA Top Doctors. Photo: Emily Neil / AL DÍA News

Corporate

Meet Dr. Carmen Guerra

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Protesters gather outside of Taller Puertorriqueño on Jan. 20 to condemn the Puerto Rican government's role in withheld aid discovered in a warehouse in Ponce, Puerto Rico on Jan. 18. Photo: Emily Neil / AL DÍA News 

Policy

Wanda Renuncia

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Policy

Making law become reality

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Students, members of the Iranian diaspora community, and others gathered on UPenn's campus on Jan. 15 to remember the 176 people who lost their lives in the plane shot down on Jan. 8. Photo: Emily Neil / AL DÍA News

Heritage and History

Philly mourns Flight 752

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Vanessa Maria Graber, demonstrator and Philly Boricuas organizer, spoke at the Power 4 Puerto Rico protest in Philadelphia on Jan. 15. Protesters gathered outside of the Department of Urban Housing and Development offices in Center City, Philadelphia, demanding that HUD release the more than $10 billion in aid allocated to Puerto Rico after Hurricanes María and Irma. Photo: Emily Neil / AL DÍA News

Policy

Puerto Rico protest

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NAHJ Philadelphia logo, courtesy of NAHJ Philly Facebook page. 

Advocacy

NAHJ in Philly

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GUAYANILLA, PUERTO RICO - JANUARY 7: Rubble covers the street after a 6.4 earthquake hit just south of the island on January 7, 2020 in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. This morning's earthquake was preceded by a series of smaller quakes in the south of the island with the epicenter in Guánica. (Photo by Eric Rojas/Getty Images)

Heritage and History

Relief drive for Puerto Rico

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The Immaculate Concepcion Catholic church lies in ruins after an overnight earthquake in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico before dawn on Tuesday, killing one man, injuring others and collapsing buildings in the southern part of the island. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Policy

Quake strikes Puerto Rico

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MIAMI, FL - FEBRUARY 27: A patch is seen on the sleeve of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer as he uses facial recognition technology in his booth at Miami International Airport to screen a traveler entering the United States on February 27, 2018 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Policy

Stopped at the border

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 Councilmember Helen Gym spoke at AL DÍA Talks on Sept. 19, 2018. Photo: Samantha Laub / AL DÍA News

Thought Leaders

To build a movement

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Marco Antonio Osuna (left) and other celebrants gather outside the door of Maria Isabel Sanchez's house, on Church Street. They sang the part of Mary and Joseph in the reenactment of their search for lodging in Bethlehem according to the Bible story, as celebrated in the Central American and Mexican tradition of the posadas. Photo: Emily Neil / AL DÍA News

Heritage and History

Posadas provide community

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The Reading Fightin Phils take on the New Hampshire Fisher Cats at First Energy Stadium in Reading, PA, on July 19, 2019. Photo: Emily Neil / AL DÍA News

Heritage and History

Why baseball?

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American urban planner Robert Moses (1888-1981), president of the World's Fair stands in front of the Unisphere monument at the World's Fair site in Flushing, Queens, New York City, 1964. Photo: Archive Photos / Getty Images

Thought Leaders

The human cost of change

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Julián Castro hugs his mother, Rosie Castro, before announcing his candidacy for president in 2020, at Plaza Guadalupe on January 12, 2019 in San Antonio, Texas. Photo: Getty Images

Thought Leaders

To live and to remember

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The new Mexico and Central America gallery features 250 artifacts. Photo: Courtesy of the Penn Museum

Heritage and History

A new view of Mesoamerica

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Mayor Jim Kenney (center) signs the Philadelphia Domestic Workers Bill of Rights as domestic workers, organizers, leaders, and elected officials look on. Photo: Emily Neil / AL DÍA News

Policy

Signed into law

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Policy

Victory for domestic workers

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Puchi De Jesus, Philly Boricuas organizer, speaks at the People's Assembly that the group held at Taller Puertorriqueño on Oct. 26. Photo: Emily Neil / AL DÍA News

Policy

Assembly for puerto rico