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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KPBS Midday EditionOral trials — similar to those in the U.S. — are expected to make Mexico's justice system more transparent. -
Human rights activists from San Diego and other cities have embarked on a fact-finding mission in Mexico to show how U.S. policies, military aid and arms sales contribute to human rights violations. -
Pacific Imperial Railroad and Baja California Railroad plan to start rehabilitation on the Desert Line in southeastern San Diego County this summer. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe battle over Proposition I — the measure to raise San Diego's minimum wage — was expected to be contentious but fizzled after a state law superseded it. -
Voters in southwestern Chula Vista are choosing a new representative for City Council District 4 in what will be the city's first district elections. -
Three of 12 candidates for Tijuana mayor each have between 22 and 23 percent of the vote, with Juan Manuel Gastelum of the National Action Party in the lead, preliminary results show.
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