Author: Rafaela Jinich

Sara was recently promoted to Associate Editor at The New York Times, where she edits stories and recipes for the Food section and New York Times Cooking. She’s been an editor at The Times since 2014.

Amy E. Serino opened Serino Law LLC, an employment law firm focusing on independent investigations of workplace complaints, such as claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and other wrongful conduct. Serino is regularly engaged by leadership or counsel for businesses across the country to interview employees and make objective findings of fact regarding workplace complaints. Serino has been a practicing attorney for 23 years.

David Plazas leads The Tennessean’s Opinion and Engagement team, which won the Online News Association’s international award for Excellence in Newsletters Portfolio for the Black Tennessee Voices and Latino Tennessee Voices newsletters. Plazas also curates the Latino TN Voices newsletter. According to the announcement on Sept. 23: “The judges were thrilled to see the winning organization launch newsletters to cover and engage with critical communities in the area.” This is part of an effort that began in 2020 to change the way The Tennessean covers communities of color from telling stories about them to telling stories for, with and by them. This has resulted in a substantial increase of guest opinion columns and podcast interviews as well as a closed Facebook group and live Storytellers events at noted venues, the National Museum of African American Music and Plaza Mariachi.