Natalie Skowlund

Journalist / Editor / Translator Award-winning bilingual journalist focused on multimedia storytelling across the Americas, from Colorado to Colombia. Experience in multimedia reporting, editing, bilingual translation, social media and newsletters. Natalie previously worked also a Fulbright scholar in Colombia. Her work has been recognized by the Indigenous Journalists Association, Association of Health Care Journalists, Society of Professional Journalists, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, Colorado Broadcasters Association, and Broadcast Education Association.

ds in a classroom at Metropolitan State University holding a water bottle to her lips in place of a microphone. As a few other students sit in desks watching, Cuevas-Lara belts out lyrics from the Mexican mariachi ballad “El Herradero.”“Ay, qué linda, qué rechula las fiestas de mi rancho…,” she sings in Spanish.Cuevas-Lara moved to Longmont from Guanajuato, Mexico when she was 15 years old. The song, she said, brings her back there.“This is...