At the lowest points in her career, Megan Taros began to internalize the messages she was getting at work: she was uncooperative, pushy, mean. The bilingual, Mexican-American journalist would scrutinize her appearance and demeanor, asking herself, “Am I too angry? Am I an angry Latina?”
Every newsroom job she got was built on years of experience — from cutting her teeth as a reporter and news editor for her South Los Angeles community college paper, The Union, to covering California’s Bay Area while studying journalism at San Francisco State. After a few years away from journalism, she pursued her dream of a graduate degree from Columbia University, where she realized what she wanted to focus on: covering Latino issues and communities. So why, once she’d earned a prestigious journalism school education and was finally hired in the types of roles she’d envisioned, was she so self-critical?
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