Alma Campos is a bilingual investigative journalist and writer based in Chicago. She is the lead reporter and immigration project editor at South Side Weekly and a contributor to The Guardian.

In 2024, Alma led reporting at Mindsite News, focusing on the intersection of immigration and mental health.

Alma’s stories have also appeared in WTTW, Crain’s Chicago Business, Univision, and LaVoz/SunTimes.

Before these current roles, Alma worked as a global health misinformation writer and fact-checker for a UNICEF program to debunk COVID-19 misinformation globally. She was also a digital producer for Univision Chicago, where she spearheaded the newsroom’s digital initiatives and covered daily and breaking news.

Alma’s stories have also appeared in PBS, Crain’s Chicago Business, and LaVoz/SunTimes.

Alma is also a translator. You can learn more about her translation work here.

Awards

In 2025, Alma’s series, Silent Battles with palabra and MindSite News, won the Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism from the Nonprofit News Awards. She was also recognized with the Sara Boyden Public Service Award in 2023 and has twice been a finalist for the Peter Lisagor Award. In 2019, she received a City Bureau Civic Reporting Fellowship.