Jean Guerrero
Investigative ReporterJean Guerrero is a former KPBS reporter with extensive experience covering Latin America. Her KPBS reporting focused on family separations at the border, Trump's wall, deportations, and migrant caravan. Her work was recognized by the San Diego Press Club, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences - Pacific Southwest Chapter, and the Society for Professional Journalists, including "Best Body Of Work" in 2018.
She started her career at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in Mexico City as a foreign correspondent. She won the PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize in 2016. Her book "Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir" was published in 2018 by One World (Random House).
Jean holds a B.A. in journalism and a minor in neuroscience from the University of Southern California. She also has an MFA degree in creative nonfiction from Goucher College.
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A 62-year-old Chula Vista resident launched a quest to rescue dying migrants and to recover their remains in the desert near the U.S.-Mexico border. -
KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego-based volunteers who search for dead or dying migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border face rising dangers of their own. -
KPBS Midday EditionAfter his brother died in the Arizona desert, a Fallbrook immigrant started a nonprofit to search for dead or dying migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. -
KPBS Midday EditionA group of men risk their lives to search for Marco Antonio Garcia, who went missing at the U.S.-Mexico border. -
Protesters in San Diego Saturday joined with demonstrations around the country denouncing the president-elect. -
KPBS Midday EditionLatinos and other minority groups held a protest, and pedestrians at the world's busiest border crossing expressed anxiety.
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