Emilly Prado

Emilly Prado is an award-winning freelance journalist, published photographer, and long-time educator based in Portland, Oregon. Her work typically focuses on amplifying the voices of people from traditionally marginalized communities and has appeared in over two dozen publications including NPR, The Oregonian, Marie Claire, Bitch Media, and the Portland Mercury. She is the recipient of a 2018 Emerging Journalist, Community Stories Fellowship presented in partnership with Oregon Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Pulitzer Prizes and was named one of “15 Latinx Music Journalists You Should Be Reading” by Remezcla in 2017. EXAMINING ASSIMILATION (Enslow Publishing) is her first book. When not writing or teaching, Emilly makes zines and DJs. See more of her work at www.emillyprado.com