Christine Herman
Christine Herman spent nine years studying chemistry before she left the bench to report on issues at the intersection of science and society. She started in radio in 2014 as a journalism graduate student at the University of Illinois and a broadcast intern at Radio Health Journal. Christine has been working at WILL since 2015.
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Illinois and some other states have prioritized farmworkers in their coronavirus vaccine plans. For many migrant workers from Mexico, this means they could receive the vaccine a year earlier than in their home country. -
Despite tens of thousands of COVID-19 cases and hundreds of deaths, agriculture workers struggle to access one of the most basic tools to fight the spread of the coronavirus — testing. -
Migratory farmworkers leave behind their families every year to plant crops, harvest them, and do everything in between. The job can be risky, but the coronavirus pandemic has made it even riskier. -
An advocacy organization estimates there have been 3,000 cases of COVID-19 among migrant and seasonal farmworkers across 15 states. -
A majority of Americans believe that while their communities will suffer in the short term from the COVID-19 pandemic, they will eventually recover. And...
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Getting mental health treatment to inmates who need it requires money and unprecedented collaboration between state and county departments of criminal justice and social services. Is it working?
