Injustice Watch makes two new hires

The following excerpt was sent out from Injustice Watch:

Injustice Watch is excited to announce that Helga Salinas and Jason Schumer are joining our team this summer.

Salinas, an experienced digital journalist, joins us June 1 as our first-ever audience director. In that role, she’ll develop an audience growth strategy and oversee our digital and community engagement efforts, including our newsletter, social media, events, and engagement reporting.

A native of Southern California, Salinas comes to Injustice Watch from CapRadio News, an NPR affiliate in Sacramento, California, where she was the audience engagement editor. Before joining CapRadio, Salinas was an engagement reporting fellow at ProPublica Illinois, where she led engagement efforts for “Driven Into Debt,” an investigation of ticket debt and racial disparities in Chicago. Prior to that, she worked at The Seattle Times, where she was the newspaper’s sole social media producer.

Salinas has a bachelor’s degree from UCLA and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Schumer will be joining Injustice Watch August 1 as our operations manager, where he’ll support the day-to-day operations and strategic growth of our team.

Schumer is currently the executive director of South Side Weekly, where he led the transformation of the organization from a volunteer-run newsroom to a fully staffed, award-winning nonprofit. In 2022, he led South Side Weekly through a successful merger with the Hyde Park Herald, preserving the oldest community newspaper in Chicago.

Schumer was hired as South Side Weekly’s first employee in 2016 and has grown with the organization for the past seven years. He worked as business manager and director of operations before becoming executive director in 2018. Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Schumer has a master’s degree in neuroscience from the University of Chicago.