Chabeli Carrazana

Chabeli Carrazana is the economy and child care reporter at The 19th, a national newsroom covering gender, politics and policy. Her care work analyzes the gendered work of caregiving, centering the experiences of parents and providers in America's child care system. Her stories focus on exposing inequities and analyzing the impact of care policy proposals at a time of heightened political interest in childcare.

Featured Work

• Day care waitlists are so long, moms are quitting their jobs or choosing to stop having kids (2023)
• The death of a day care: When a child care center closes, an entire community is affected (2023)
• Her son died in day care. Ten years later, the system that could’ve saved him is still failing. (2024)
• After a child care worker is detained by ICE, a community is left reeling (2025)
• ‘They are hunting us:’ Child care workers in D.C. go underground amid ICE crackdown (2025)
• The island without childcare for babies (2026)