Hi I'm
Hermes Tonatiuh Padilla
My focus lies in community storytelling, communications strategy and content creation
I have over 10 years of experience in digital content creation and more than six years in communications and community engagement, and I’m currently pursuing a master’s degree in journalism and media innovation. My work is centered on sharing lived experiences through reporting, photography, and digital storytelling.
photography.
An activist leads demonstrators in chanting, “Fight, fight, fight, housing is a human right,” during a 2020 rally for a rent freeze outside Los Angeles City Hall in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Hermes Padilla.)
Carter Printup, joined by Estevan Uriel, prepares to thank community members gathered in 2023 for the memorial for his father, Chris “Spanto” Printup, co-founder of Born X Raised, at Broadway and Seventh Avenue near Oakwood Park in Venice, Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Hermes Padilla.)
A protester holds a sign while standing on the roof of the Chinese Theatre during one of Los Angeles’ largest Black Lives Matter demonstrations on Hollywood Boulevard in 2020. (Photo by Hermes Padilla.)
