Meet Our Board 2026
We are excited to serve as officers for the San Diego/Tijuana chapter of NAHJ 2025-2026. We ask that you please join us in recruiting new members and encourage members who have fallen off the roster to renew their memberships. Please remember that elections are coming up in September 2025. We hope you continue building the chapter. If you have been an active member of our organization perhaps you should think about running for office!
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President
Laura Castañeda is an award-winning bilingual journalist, producer, documentary filmmaker, media instructor, mentor, and deputy opinion editor at The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Vice President
Roberto Camacho is an independent journalist and graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. His work can be seen in Times of San Diego, Palabara by NAHJ and many other publications.
Secretary
Laura Acavedo is a bilingual award-winning general assignment reporter at KGTV Channel 10 since 2017. She has worked in English and Spanish language newsrooms as well as NBC News and interned at Dateline.
Treasurer
Heder Casas is a bilingual-bicultural reporter at Univision San Diego since January 2019. She grew up on both sides of the border and has a clear understanding of what it’s like to be a fronteriza.
At Large Officer
Sofia Mejias-Pascoe is an immigration and border reporter with inewsource, where she has spent the past four years investigating federal agencies and shining a light on the human impacts of policy. Before that, she interned at the San Diego Union-Tribune and Voice of San Diego. She graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a BA in Communication. In 2025, she was selected as the “Journalist of the Year” by the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
