Guillermo Torres
Guillermo Torres wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Guillermo is a fellow of the Freedom Forum and the Institute for Journalism Education’s Minority Editing Program. With 44 years as an editor and writer, he’s worked at the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News and the Santa Fe New Mexican, among other newspapers. He is co-author of “A Legacy Greater Than Words.”
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