Alma Campos is an award-winning bilingual journalist in Chicago. She covers immigration and immigrant communities.

She currently contributes to The Guardian, serves as a Senior Editor at South Side Weekly, and leads reporting at Mindsite News, where she focuses on the critical intersection of immigration and mental health.

Alma’s stories have also appeared in WTTW, Crain’s Chicago Business, Univision, and LaVoz/SunTimes.

Before her current roles, Alma worked on global health misinformation, fact-checking for a UNICEF program to debunk COVID-19 misinformation around the world. Prior to that, she was a digital producer for Univision Chicago, where she spearheaded the newsroom’s digital initiatives, covered day and evening breaking news, and trained reporters on digital best practices.

Alma is also a translator. You can learn more about her translation work here.

Awards

In 2023, Alma was recognized with the Sara Boyden Public Service Award for her in-depth reporting on Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) and economic development in Chicago. She was also a finalist for the Peter Lisagor Award for Best Multimedia Collaboration. In 2019, she was awarded the City Bureau Civic Reporting Fellowship.

Alma is an immigrant from Jalisco, Mexico. She was raised in the Azusa California foothills and Chicago.