Stories

AYER – I got my start in journalism writing about education on the U.S.-Mexico border, but it was an earthquake in Chile that changed my trajectory. I went on to write about the dictatorship’s legacy in Chile, and reported stories from Patagonia and the Peruvian Amazon. Back in the states, I covered organized crime, migration and border security, and later I was a Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan.

THESE DAYS – Based on my investigation into infants adopted from Chile to Sweden in the 70s and 80s under the military dictatorship, the Swedish government launched an investigation into its practice of international adoptions. Lately, I’ve been writing about exploitation of foreign labor, and militarization from Texas’s border with Mexico.

DOWN THE ROAD – I’ll be writing about the ways in which international boundaries disrupt cultural and economic regions, even as they confound policy solutions to the violence they create.