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.

Previously, 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 with Public Good Projects to debunk COVID-19 misinformation. 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 reporting journey began in 2018, when she and a group of Chicago-based writers created Coordenadas, a literary magazine amplifying immigrant voices and experimental storytelling. Though the publication is no longer active, it laid the foundation for her journalistic approach: collaborative, cross-border, and rooted in lived experience.