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Francesca Berardi

Brown Insitute for Media Innovation

Francesca Berardi appears in the following:

A canner who goes by the name Morena earns about $10,000 a year by collecting bottles and cans, enough to finance her 'second life' as a celebrity on the Latina party circuit.

She Makes Her Living 5 Cents at a Time

Thursday, August 09, 2018

By Francesca Berardi : Brown Insitute for Media Innovation

About 10,000 "canners" live and work in New York City. Here's the story of one of them who entered the profession reluctantly, but is now proud it has kept her working.