I am an independent journalist in Phoenix. I contribute radio stories on immigration, border and Arizona issues to various public radio shows, and sometimes I write for print outlets like The Guardian.
I am currently co-authoring a book with Terry Greene Sterling that tells the story of former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's unprecedented crackdown on illegal immigration, the grassroots Latino-led movement that organized against him, and the battle over immigration enforcement in Arizona that ended with a presidential pardon.
I was a New America fellow in 2017 and 2018, and a 2017 Logan Nonfiction Program fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. I am a journalism fellow at the University of Southern California's Center for Religion and Civic Culture. I will be a Suzanne Goodspeed Investigative Journalism fellow at Northern Arizona University in September.
From 2010-2016 I was a Senior Field Correspondent for KJZZ, the NPR member station in Phoenix, and Fronteras Desk, a public media collaboration in the Southwest focused on border issues, immigration and demographic change.
I was part of the original team that launched Fronteras Desk in 2010. I initially reported for the project from Las Vegas and then transferred to Phoenix in 2012.
I spent 2016 reporting on the presidential campaign in Arizona as part of a partnership between NPR and member stations.
Previously, I contributed multimedia content in both Spanish and English to The Associated Press in Mexico, and stories on immigration and criminal justice to KALW in San Francisco.
I'm a graduate of University of California Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and Yale University. I was a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico.
This page represents just a small sample of my work over the past few years.
I'd love to hear from you:
judejbreports @ gmail.com