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Julia Barajas
What I cover
I strive to bring nuance and context to the issue of immigration, which is often cast as a competition for limited resources or a concern for public safety.
Beholden to no political party, I document the impact of federal immigration policy on Southern California communities—including U.S. citizens of color—while holding our government accountable. My coverage centers human suffering and resilience, with an emphasis on how communities are taking collective action in response to this evolving landscape.
My background
I’ve covered a broad range of issues for English and Spanish-language news media—everything from environmental injustice to the arts. Most recently, I was LAist’s higher education reporter. My work has been recognized by the California News Publishers Association, the Los Angeles Press Club, the Press Club of Atlantic City, and the Society for Features Journalism.
My goals
I pledge to reflect SoCal’s economic, ethnic, racial, and linguistic diversity in my reporting. This means making it a point to include people who speak Armenian, Arabic, Farsi, Khmer, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Zapotec, and all the other beautiful languages in the place we call home—while acknowledging that Tongva is the first language of this land.
How to contact me
If you or your community have been affected by federal immigration policy, I want to know about it. Also, if you have ideas about stories I should be covering, I welcome your thoughts. You can reach out by email. I'm at jbarajas@laist.com. Or, if you have a tip you’d like to share more privately, you can reach me on Signal. My username is @jbarajas.68.
Stories by Julia Barajas
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UC Irvine's teaching assistants, postdocs, and researchers are the latest to walk off the job in a dispute over the university's handling of campus protests.
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Student researchers, teaching assistants and post-docs at UCLA and UC Davis went on strike Tuesday, expanding a strike that began at UC Santa Cruz earlier in May.
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If a state agency says the University of California's academic workers can't stay on strike, "a whole cascade of bad things" could happen.
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The union that represents academic workers across the University of California system, has called on members at UCLA and UC Davis to join its strike on Tuesday, May 28.
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The stand-up strikes are meant to call attention to what members say are unfair labor practices.
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Among other demands, student workers and researchers want amnesty for students arrested over the past month.
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It currently costs $555 to renew the permit online and $605 to renew it by mail.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised plan reduces funding for key higher education programs.
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A new state report signals that the rates far exceed those at public universities.
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The museum has vowed to continue fighting for its possession of the ancient Greek statue.
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A facility in Vernon has reached a $400,000 settlement with air quality regulators.
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The sinkhole, a product of powerful winter storms, posed a serious safety risk.
