Claudia Irizarry Aponte is a senior reporter covering labor and work issues for THE CITY. Her reporting on the emerging organizing efforts of NYC app-based delivery workers led to first-in-the-nation local legal protections for those workers, and was awarded the James Beard Award for investigative reporting and the Edward R. Murrow Award for feature reporting, among other honors. A 2018 graduate of the J-School’s bilingual journalism program, Claudia is from Lajas, Puerto Rico.