Laura Ospina
Staff Reporter
Laura.ospina@yale.edu
Laura Ospina covers Yale-New Haven relations and the Latine community for the City desk. Originally from North Carolina's Research Triangle, she is a sophomore in Branford College majoring in Political Science.
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LAURA OSPINA
Yale to send non-Yale tenants packing from Broadway apartments

After purchasing 59 Broadway in November, Yale will give non-Yale affiliated tenants one year to vacate their apartments. Current tenants have amassed almost 600 signatures in protest.

January 24, 2024

LAURA OSPINA
Labor leaders and elected officials celebrate Local 33 contract at MLK Day event

New Haven Rising, a grassroots labor organization, honored Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of economic justice at their annual event, highlighting labor wins on a local and national scale.

January 18, 2024

LAURA OSPINA
Local 33 ratifies first contract in landslide vote

With 99.4 percent of voters in favor of ratification, Local 33, the graduate and professional student union, won its first contract, securing pay raises, expanded healthcare and union recognition until 2031.

December 20, 2023

LAURA OSPINA
Local 33 and Yale reach historic tentative agreement

After organizing for more than three decades, Local 33, the graduate and professional student union, secured higher pay, improved healthcare resources and union recognition until 2031 in a tentative agreement following nine months of negotiations with the University.

December 8, 2023

LAURA OSPINA
After mass firing of migrant workers, Unidad Latina en Acción calls on Yale New Haven Hospital to cut janitorial subcontractor

The advocacy group protested outside of Yale New Haven Hospital on Monday night after YNHH subcontractor AffinEco allegedly discriminated against migrant workers on the basis of their immigration status and threatened to call immigration authorities on the workers.

December 6, 2023

NATI TESFAYE & LAURA OSPINA
Yale acquires 51 and 57 Broadway for $7 million in move to expand University presence

In a recent transaction, the University cemented its dominance on Broadway through the purchase of the adjacent buildings, which currently hold Campus Customs, Blue Jay Cleaners, Broadway Kitchen and other retailers.

December 1, 2023

MAIA NEHME & LAURA OSPINA
Unidad Latina en Acción hosts annual Día de los Muertos celebration

ULA — a New Haven organization that supports Latine immigrants — dedicated their parade to community members who have recently passed.

November 7, 2023

LAURA OSPINA & MAIA NEHME
PROFILE: Unidad Latina en Acción defends the rights of New Haven’s immigrant community

Unidad Latina en Acción has spent more than two decades pushing for political and legal change for Latines in New Haven. They attend immigration court, lead protests and challenge politicians, inviting conflict along the way.

November 2, 2023

LAURA OSPINA & LUA PRADO
Jewish Voice for Peace holds rally in support of Palestine, demands cease-fire 

Last Wednesday, over 250 Jewish New Haveners gathered to protest outside City Hall where they read letters calling on Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and Mayor Justin Elicker to support a cease-fire in Gaza.

October 25, 2023

LAURA OSPINA & MIA CORTÉS CASTRO
Over 1,000 rally in support of Palestine

The streets of New Haven were covered in red, green and black — the colors of the Palestinian flag — on Sunday afternoon as Connecticut residents chanted “Free Palestine” in the largest pro-Palestine rally across the state this month.

October 23, 2023

MAGGIE GRETHER, LAURA OSPINA & YURII STASIUK
Pro-Palestine protesters rally in front of City Hall

On Indigenous People’s Day, the pro-Palestine protest related their struggle to a global movement against colonialism; the rally was held days after a surprise attack against Israel by Hamas and met by a smaller counter-protest.

October 10, 2023