
Heidi De Marco
California Healthline ProducerHeidi de Marco, Reporter and Producer for California Healthline, produces bilingual multimedia stories about California’s ethnic and low-income communities. Previously, she was a freelance video journalist and photographer specializing in work abroad, including a series of short-form videos about artisans in Guatemala supported by Novica and National Geographic. She was a managing editor for El Pueblo in Los Angeles before moving to India for a postgraduate program at the International Center for Journalists. She is a DePaul University graduate and received a certificate in Spanish-language broadcast journalism from UCLA. She was part of the KHN team to win a NIHCM Digital Media Award in 2018 for “The Orphan Drug Machine” and the Association of Health Care Journalists’ Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism in Business for the “Liquid Gold” series.
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As California wildfires grow more intense, frequent, and widespread, many children who live through them are experiencing lasting psychological trauma such as anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder.