PERSON: Jean Guerrero

Author

Jean Carolyn Guerrero (born March 31, 1988) is an American investigative journalist, author, and former foreign correspondent. She is the author of Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir, winner of the PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize, and Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda, published in 2020 by William Morrow. Guerrero’s KPBS series America’s Wall won an Emmy Award. Her essay, “My Father Says He’s a ‘Targeted Individual.’ Maybe We All Are,” was selected for The Best American Essays anthology of 2019. She is a senior journalism fellow at the UCLA Latina Futures 2050 Lab.

From 2010 to 2013, Guerrero was a Mexico City bureau correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, reporting on Mexico and Central America. She was an investigative reporter for KPBS in San Diego from 2015 to 2019. Guerrero has been a regular contributor to NPR, PBS NewsHour and PRI’s The World, with appearances on CNN, Democracy Now!, MSNBC, CBC, and Univision among others. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, Vanity Fair, Wired, The Daily Beast, The Nation and other outlets. A former opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times from 2022 to 2024, Guerrero is currently a contributing writer for The New York Times.

Guerrero lives in Los Angeles, California. Her mother is a physician, and her sister Michelle Ruby is a painter and muralist.

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