Along with tamales, dressing Baby Jesus and singing to him is a Mexican Christmas tradition very much alive in the Mission District. We arrived at Lourdes Boutique as women were shopping for their babies’ new dresses.
Reporter, multimedia producer and former professional soccer player from Lima, Peru. She was a correspondent at the 2016 Rio Olympics for El Comercio, and later covered the aftermath for The Associated Press. Her work has also been published by The New York Times, The Guardian and Spain's El Pais. Otherwise, her interests are as varied and random as Industrial Design, Brazilian ethnomusicology, and the history of Russian gymnastics.
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