Richard Koci Hernandez
Bio
Richard Koci Hernandez is an Emmy-award-winning video and multimedia producer who worked as a photographer at the San Jose Mercury News for 15 years. In 2008, he was awarded a national Emmy award in the “New Approaches to Documentary” category for his work on the Mercury News video titled “Uprooted.” His work for the Mercury News has earned him two Pulitzer Prize nominations. Koci Hernandez is currently a visiting fellow at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism supported by a Ford Foundation grant to produce digital-news sites for San Francisco Bay Area communities.






