📍 Based in NYC

✉️ cahidalg@gmail.com

As a senior producer at WNYC, I worked with teens and young adults to report personal stories about their lives and communities while managing Radio Rookies, the station’s award-winning youth media program.

Last year, I was selected for the Solutions Journalism Network’s inaugural Journalists of Color fellowship, a nine-month program designed to identify and support diverse next-generation leaders.

I’ve also participated in Edit Mode, an intensive story editing program from AIR, aimed at diversifying the audio industry’s editor pool.

Previously, I was a senior photojournalist and digital reporter at St. Louis Public Radio, where I followed the aftermath of the 2014 uprising in Ferguson and covered justice reform, inequality and social movements. I’ve also worked as a staff photographer at the Naples Daily News and the Tampa Bay Times.

In 2023, I won a Gracie Award for best radio documentary for Half of My Parents, All of Me, a radio segment I led, produced and scripted for Radio Rookies and WNYC’s Notes from America.

In 2020, I won a Third Coast International Audio Festival award for a podcast episode I reported and produced about a campaign to shut down a notorious St. Louis jail.

In 2019, I reported from the United States-Mexico border as part of an International Women’s Media Foundation fellowship.

In 2018, I was named one of The Lit List’s “30 photographers to watch.”

I’ve served as a mentor with NPR’s Next Gen Radio program and AIR’s New Voices program. I’ve also taught an introductory audio course at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. I’m an alum of the Eddie Adams Workshop, The Kalish Workshop, the Chips Quinn program and the New York Times Student Journalism Institute.

I’m available for freelance photo assignments. Past clients include The New York Times, ProPublica, ESPN’s The Undefeated, NBC Latino, BuzzFeed News, VICE News and National Geographic.