Dignity Displaced is a 10 episode podcast that tells the story of migration at the Texas/Mexico border between 2021-2022.
Dignity Displaced explores why so many people undertake the dangerous journey to the southern U.S. border by sharing stories from those living and working in humanitarian crises, along with insights from experts, leaders, and advocates around the world.
Producing and editing Dignity Displaced gave me a hands-on education in reporting, interviewing, and narrative craft. This experience shaped how I approach storytelling across spaces and disciplines.
10. Day by day in a camp closure - Reynosa, Mexico.
Below find a video edited with an excerpt from episode 10 of Dignity Displaced which highlighted the week a make shift camp was unexpectedly bulldozed, forcing the opening of the unfinished shelter/camp that was under construction at a formal baseball field. Video edit thanks to Solidarity Engineering.
Highlighted episodes
10. Day by day in a camp closure - Reynosa, Mexico
The informal refugee camp in La Plaza de La República, which was once home to up to 3,000 people, was forcibly shut down by the City of Reynosa on May 2nd, 2022 displacing hundreds and resulting in the unfinished shelter that Solidarity has been working on, Senda 2, to be opened out of necessity. In this episode you’ll hear Solidarity’s field team explain day by day of what happened the week of the 2nd through a mixture of narration, interviews, Whatsapp messages, and sound clips from the field.
9. One camp closes, another one opens… Again? - Reynosa Mexico
This episode is an update on the humanitarian crisis in Reynosa, Mexico and includes interviews with 10 women who have taken varying leadership roles within this space.
6 & 7. How the death squads became the cartels
Continuing our mini series on why people are fleeing Guatemala, we were joined by author, lawyer, and human rights activist, Jennifer Harbury. In these episodes, Jennifer talks to us about the US' involvement in the genocide and civil war in the Guatemala during the 80s and 90s. She tells how the CIA documents that were released after her three hunger strikes show the U.S.’s direct support of death squad members in Central America who went on to start some of the deadliest cartels we see today.