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Jude Joffe-Block

Senior Field Correspondent

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Senior Field Correspondent Jude Joffe-Block (Phoenix) caught the radio bug while assisting a radio reporter in Mexico, and has been happiest wearing headphones and pointing microphones ever since. She initiated Fronteras Desk coverage in Las Vegas as the project's first Senior Field Correspondent there. She then joined the Phoenix newsroom in July 2012. Previously, she contributed stories on immigration and criminal justice to KALW in San Francisco and multimedia content in both Spanish and English to the Associated Press in Mexico. She is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and Yale University, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico.

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As Need For Court Interpreters Grows, Who Pays?

Jude Joffe-Block

More than 25 million people who live in this country have limited English. If they wind up in civil court, they would likely need an interpreter. But who pays?
Public Safety

Growing Language Needs A Challenge For Nevada Justice System

Jude Joffe-Block

The climbing number of non-English speakers in Nevada is challenging the state’s cash-strapped court system.
Border & Immigration

Medical Tourists Can Speed Through U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing

Jude Joffe-Block

A new designated lane at the Mexicali-Calexico border crossing will allow foreigners to get medical treatment in Mexico and return to the U.S. without a long wait. The medical tourism lane is part of the city's plan to get more residents from the American Southwest to seek treatment from doctors in Mexicali.
Border & Immigration

Former Nevada Latino Rights Leader Pleads Guilty To Felony Theft Charge

Jude Joffe-Block

A past LULAC state director will have to pay back the Latino clients he scammed.
Environment

A Corrido For The Colorado River

Jude Joffe-Block

The four-state advocacy campaign, Nuestro Rio, is using music to mobilize Latinos around water conservation in the Southwest.
Nevada Same-Sex Marriage Ban Challenged

Jude Joffe-Block

Two months after the Ninth Circuit struck down California’s same-sex marriage ban, gay rights activists are challenging Nevada’s rules limiting marriage to heterosexual couples.