Haydee Barahona

Class of 2026

Haydee Barahona is a journalist and master’s student at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Raised in California’s Central Valley, she has experience reporting on education, Latino communities and youth across the state. Her work has appeared in The Intersection, CalMatters, Local News Matters and Oakland North.

Barahona earned her bachelor’s degree in communications from California State University, Bakersfield, where she helped transform the university’s student-led newspaper, The Runner, into a bilingual Spanish-English print publication. She has been recognized for her leadership by CSU Bakersfield, and for her reporting and photography by the California College Media Association.

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