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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Students from San Diego and Mexico City are teaming up to create works of art that explore violence. It’s a joint initiative of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and Mexico City’s Tamayo Museum. -
The family of a Mexican man who died after an incident with border officials at the San Ysidro Port of Entry has asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate his death. -
Customs and Border Protection says it is investigating the allegations -
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's commissioner spoke to KPBS on Thursday in an exclusive interview. He acknowledged the agency's vulnerability to corruption and said a 2,000-mile border wall would be "very, very difficult." -
The city's former police chief resigned last month following KPBS news reports about his strategy to evict homeless migrants from the Tijuana River canal. -
Many immigrants in San Diego County are rushing to naturalize in time to vote with the help of a local program called Cultivando Liderazgo.
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