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.

Awards

In 2025, Alma’s Silent Battles with palabra and MindSite News series 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.

Alma’s reporting journey began in 2018, during a trip to Ciudad Juárez, where she explored how residents grappled with the city’s monumental red “X”—a symbol of both pride and pain, representing the fusion of Indigenous and Spanish heritage as much as the city’s history of femicide.