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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While homicides rose in Tijuana last year, the overall crime rate dropped 9 percent. Tijuana's police chief detailed his high-tech strategy to KPBS. -
KPBS Midday EditionMore than 1,000 people attended the 28th All Peoples Celebration in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Balboa Park Activity Center Monday morning. -
Customs officials from Mexico and the U.S. are working together in Tijuana to fast-track inspection of certain agricultural shipments.
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More than 1,000 migrants received blankets at a Tijuana shelter this week as rains soaked the homeless, flooded streets, increased traffic and caused drainage canals to swell with rushing water. -
More than a thousand of San Diego's homeless and hungry ate lunch and dinner on Christmas Eve at Father Joe's Villages. -
Nearly 100 Mexicans have sought to return to the U.S. by Wednesday's deadline under the settlement of a class-action lawsuit.
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