Bachelor’s degree in journalism, University of Colorado Boulder
Professional background:
Hayley Sanchez joined Colorado Public Radio as a Max Wycisk News Fellow in 2018. She worked alongside reporters, producers and editors to sharpen her radio and reporting skills before earning a full-time position as a general assignment reporter and producer.
Previously, Hayley was a digital producer at The Arizona Republic, where she produced the paper’s politics podcast, The Gaggle, and helped manage digital and multimedia content. She’s interned at The Denver Post, The Bulletin in Bend, Ore. and D.C. Witness in Washington. Hayley was also part of the Chips Quinn Scholars and Dow Jones News Fund programs.
The state doesn’t know exactly how many people will qualify for Saturday’s rollout but said it emailed about 289,000 people with information about the benefits.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Colorado who are trying to figure out how to pay rent with little to no income as the pandemic keeps its strangling grip on the economy.
For many families, the pandemic has wiped out savings and brought them to the brink of instability. CPR's Hayley Sanchez brings us this story of a Denver mom struggling to keep going.