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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Most Baja California farmworkers protesting low wages have returned to the fields after growers in the San Quintin valley offered them a 15 percent wage increase, but strawberry output is expected to drop. -
More are getting hired into white-collar jobs than before -
A protest caravan representing 43 students who disappeared from southern Mexico is in San Diego. The group's goal is to spread awareness about the case. -
Caravan 43 is a movement by parents and friends of 43 Mexican students who have been missing since September 2014. They plan to visit 45 states to raise awareness and seek help. -
The American Civil Liberties Union held a public forum in Mexicali on Friday where they discussed a settlement that allows certain deportees to come back to the U.S. -
Farmworkers are striking this week over wages and working conditions. The strike has caused concern among Americans businesses that rely on Mexico's produce.
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