by Erica Hellerstein August 1, 2025 Pedro Perez, a farmworker from Mexico, and other farmworkers take accordion classes with Hernan Hernandez, the son of famed musician Hernan Hernandez of Tigres del Norte on September 11, 2024. Credit: Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/Catchlight/Report for America corps member Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Erica Hellerstein, senior immigration, labor and economics reporter. In 2011, Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga saw a perplexing case in her...

In Half Moon Bay, an innovative music class led by the son of music royalty helps farmworkers cope with trauma. by Erica Hellerstein...