Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Race & Identity Reporter
About
Gustavo covers the intersection of race and identity for KUOW, writing stories that center voices often not catered to in typical news. Previously he was at KUNR in Reno as a Bilingual Reporting Fellow focusing on Indigenous and Latine communities where he's covered topics about MMIWP, voting access, language justice, food sovereignty, food apartheid, indigenous boarding schools, and the effects wage disparities for Latinos, to name a few topics. He's most interested in covering how communities effect the levers of power they hold to affect change.
Before finding his way into journalism he spent nearly a decade in the restaurant industry, from busboy at a buffet to a line cook in nationally and internationally known establishments. Now all the cooking he cares about is making the perfect pot of beans and grits. Always on the hunt for a solid plate of hashbrowns or a solid bowl of menudo, let him know if you have a spot to recommend.
You can contact Gustavo on his work cell at 206-960-3698. Follow Gustavo on Instagram at @gus.chavo.
Location: Seattle
Languages: Spanish, English
Pronouns: he/him
Stories
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Northwest African American Museum hosts Juneteenth celebrations
KUOW’s Gustavo Sagrero gives us a snapshot of the events planned.
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Thursday Headlines
Seattle's graffiti law is on hold, UW researchers strike a labor deal, and a new area code is coming to the 206.
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Health
'Hold That Pose' offers queer and trans youth a place to dance, build community, and find resources
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Environment
Getting fish passage over Skagit dams will take decades
After years of drama with Tribes who say the dams are getting in the way of the salmon. If successful, it’ll be introducing fish into a region it hasn’t been in for 50 or even more years.
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Health
Sen. Cantwell highlights availability of mental health resources
She spoke late last week in Seattle, at a healthcare program called Sound.
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Arts & Life
Catch model-walking, voguing, and other competitions at this cowboy-themed Seattle ball
This isn’t your typical 1950s-style ballroom. This type of ballroom is a mashup of model-walking, voguing, and other performance arts.
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Business
Lummi Nation moves to block BC port expansion they say would impact salmon
The port authority said the expansion would increase Canada’s west coast container capacity by about a third of what it’s already at, and has Indigenous buy-in. But the Lummi Nation in Washington said they've been ignored, and that is a violation of their rights.
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Business
WA mushroom farm ordered to pay $3.4 million for discriminating against female workers
A little more than a year ago, a Sunnyside mushroom farm put a job posting on Facebook, looking for only male workers. The post was made by a lead employee of the then Ostrom Mushroom farm. Now, the farm will have to pay out 3.4 million dollars to settle allegations of discrimination against workers it fired.
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Deportation flights have resumed out of King County Airport / Boeing Field
KUOW’s Gustavo Sagrero reports the county is also publishing data on those flights.
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Arts & Life
Seattle’s Chinatown-International District designated 'endangered historic place.' Will that help the neighborhood?
It joins a list of other spaces, including a Chinatown in Philadelphia. The list is managed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.