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 non-partisan 'party bus' is driving around communities south of Interstate 8 to increase turnout among minority groups. -
Drought-damaged avocado trees and farmworker strikes mean fewer and more expensive avocados in San Diego. -
Marijuana has long flowed from Mexico into the U.S. Now, it's starting to flow in the opposite direction. -
U.S. Department of Homeland Security says the analysis is incomplete
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As Hurricane Matthew displaces thousands of Haitians, San Diego immigrant rights groups say the U.S. should renew humanitarian parole provisions canceled two weeks ago amid an immigration influx through San Ysidro. -
KPBS Midday EditionActivists say about 50 families have been separated by the recent decision of the U.S. to tighten immigration restrictions on Haitians.
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