As we complete a semester filled with both unprecedented challenges and creative collaborations in response to those challenges, we are writing to update you with news from the University of Iowa Latina/o Studies Program.

Lisa Ortiz (Sawyer Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow) and Kristy Nabhan-Warren (Religious Studies and GWSS) have both done research on meatpacking plants and the rural Latin/x communities surrounding them. In this conversation, the scholars discuss the role of churches during the COVID-19 outbreak and how workers are using social media to communicate.