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Response and Recovery: Valentina Pereda

Prioritizing vaccine access for vulnerable communities is critical to a successful pandemic response – but it’s only one piece of the puzzle.

 

This week’s guest is Valentina Pereda, a communications expert and documentary filmmaker based in LA. She tells Ali about her work tracking and combatting misinformation in the Latino community, particularly around COVID-19.

 

Valentina helped produce the following vaccine PSAs:

 

Imam Muhammad Kolila:
https://www.facebook.com/MasjidAlshuhadaa/videos/1119238831834139/

 

Dr. Lily Cervantes:
https://www.facebook.com/1548681666/videos/10224241052444509/

 

Dr. AK Agundiabe:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CKl_0WvHFKw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

 

A transcript of this episode is available here. 

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