Jean Guerrero

Jean Guerrero

Jean Guerrero (Jean Carolyn Guerrero) was born on March 31st, 1988 and is currently 38 years old. Jean Guerrero was born in San Diego, California, USA.

Jean Guerrero is a renowned investigative journalist, former foreign correspondent, and author. She is an opinion writer for The New York Times, where she writes on the American West, US Latinos, and politics.
Guerrero began her career as a foreign correspondent at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal in Central America and Mexico. It was while she was there that she learned about the structural forces driving displacement and migration.

Between 2021 and 2024, Guerrero was a Los Angeles Times opinion columnist, writing commentary on topics ranging from the Latino vote to the 2021 gubernatorial election.

Jean Guerrero’s investigative reporting and essays have been featured in The Seattle Times, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, Politico, and The New Republic. She is also a frequent guest on national TV and radio shows, including Democracy Now! and MSNBC.

She reported on immigration and the US-Mexico border between 2015 and 2021. Months before family separations became national news, she was reporting on the issue, and this was cited in a letter from the Department of Homeland Security, which drew on her PBS Newshour reporting.

Outside of her journalism, she is a visiting professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. At the college, she runs the opinion commentary bootcamp, Our Unsilencing. The bootcamp uplifts underrepresented voices and mentors the next generation of public intellectuals.

Jean Guerrero published her debut work, Crux in 2018, as a memoir about confusion, identity, and love.

She tells the story of her Mexican immigrant father, who, despite being brilliant, was curtailed with unusual beliefs and mental illness. When he goes missing, she goes to find him.

On her quest, she questions her faith, culture, and science even as she learns more about her roots and herself. She shows how people you love can be just as difficult to understand as people you don't.

In the end, it is a story about loss, family, and the search for meaning in a complicated life.

In his next work titled Hatemonger, Jean Guerrero tells the story of President Donald Trump’s advisor Stephen Miller.

She explains Miller's meteoric rise in politics by looking at how he became radicalized as a teenager. Miller would then work for Jeff Sessions and Michele Bachmann before the Trump campaign team headhunted him.

Over the years, he was involved in shaping the speeches and immigration policies that sparked fear of immigrants. Miller also promoted ideas that divided Americans, sparking strong debate over power, identity, and what America stands for.

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