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ABOUT JEAN GUERRERO

Jean Guerrero is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and a senior journalism fellow at the UCLA Latina Futures 2050 Lab. An award-winning investigative journalist, essayist and speaker, Guerrero is the author of Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Agenda. Her first book, Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir, won a PEN Literary Award and was named a New York Times Editors' Choice of 2023 and one of NPR's Best Books of 2018 A former opinion columnist at the Los Angeles Times, she has been published in Vanity Fair, Politico, The Nation, Wired, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit and more. She won the 2022 "Best Commentary" award from the Sacramento Press Club. As an investigative border reporter at KPBS, she won an Emmy, contributed to NPR, the PBS NewsHour and more. Months before Trump’s family separations captured national attention, her PBS reporting on the practice was cited by members of Congress. She started her career at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires as a foreign correspondent in Mexico and Central America. She was named one of the California Chicano News Media Association’s most influential Latina journalists.

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"Hatemonger is a must-read for those who want to understand how small minds steeped in extremist methods have amassed great power in the 21st century. A superbly reported and haunting American tragedy.”

-Rachel Slade, author of the national bestseller Into the Raging Sea

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“In her devastatingly beautiful memoir . . . she tracks her father through his lineage of mystics; his shadowy past; and his years of obsession ... and even brilliance.”

-The National Book Review

"Crux is everything I want in a memoir ... Jean Guerrero has a poet’s lyrical sense, a journalist’s dogged devotion to truth, and a fast and far-reaching mind."

-Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart

"The genius of Guerrero’s exquisite creation lies beyond her lyrical descriptions, and visceral phrases  ... What truly makes this book extraordinary is the careful layering and connections ... the kind of memoir that seems to redefine the genre."

-Los Angeles Review of Books

REPORTS BY JEAN GUERRERO

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LatinoUSA interviews me about Mexican MAGA conspiracy theorists fueling flames of the immigration debate, based on my reporting for the Daily Beast.

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Jean Guerrero reports for the PBS NewsHour.

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This report on the PBS NewsHour was cited by members of Congress months before the zero tolerance policy

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Jean Guerrero travels through the deadliest smuggling routes at the U.S.-Mexico border for KPBS.

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The Emmy-winning series by Jean Guerrero in collaboration with KPBS and inewsource

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As featured in the Wall Street Journal

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Jean Guerrero was the first to report on the flaws of these wall prototypes.

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As featured in the Wall Street Journal

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WHY TIJUANA'S TUNNEL PEOPLE TAKE THE RISK

Jean Guerrero reports from the storm drains of Tijuana.

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It’s been a long time coming, but the wait is finally over. Beyond The Fog, the latest title from Jean Guerrero is something of a departure from their previous work. Order your copy today.

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As featured in the Wall Street Journal

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As featured in the Wall Street Journal

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Stephen Miller's affinity for mobsters, from Jean Guerrero's "HATEMONGER."

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The man who made Stephen Miller, from Jean Guerrero's "HATEMONGER."

ESSAYS

By Jean Guerrero

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MY FATHER SAYS HE’S A ‘TARGETED INDIVIDUAL.’ MAYBE WE ALL ARE

BELIEVING IN THE ANIMORPHS TAUGHT ME I COULD COPE WITH ANYTHING

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