Alma Campos is a bilingual investigative journalist and writer based in Chicago. She is the lead reporter and immigration project editor at South Side Weekly and a contributor to The Guardian.

Previously, Alma led reporting at Mindsite News, with a focus on the intersection of immigration and mental health.

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

Before taking on these current roles, Alma worked as a global health misinformation writer and fact-checker for a UNICEF program in collaboration with Public Good Projects, debunking COVID-19 misinformation.

She was also a digital producer for Univision Chicago, where she spearheaded the newsroom’s digital initiatives and covered daily and nightly breaking news.

Alma studied literature and philosophy, training her to analyze texts, evaluate arguments, and interpret multiple perspectives—skills that sharpen her critical thinking and inform her investigative reporting.