Experience

The Imprint News
• United States
• Online Audio and Video Media
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Associate Editor

  • Jan 2023 - Present


Voices of Monterey Bay

• Co-founder, Voices of Monterey Bay

  • Oct 2017 - Present

  VoicesofMontereyBay.org is a nonprofit bilingual online news magazine for California's Central Coast. www.vomb.org VoicesofMontereyBay.org is a nonprofit bilingual online news magazine for California's Central Coast. www.vomb.org



Gray Area Podcast

• Media Production

• Executive Producer

  • Jun 2016 - Present

  A show about justice and redemption. See grayareapodcast.com A show about justice and redemption. See grayareapodcast.com



Chicago Review Press

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Author

  • May 2014 - Present

  Author of "Blood in the Fields: Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang," available September 2014. Author of "Blood in the Fields: Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang," available September 2014.


Center for Conflict Studies
• Serbia
• Education Administration Programs
• Fellow

  • Jun 2012 - Present


Freelance editor and writer

• Writing and Editing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance editor/reporter

  • Jan 2016 - Present

  My recent freelance work has been published and/or broadcast by Newsweek, The Nation, The Intercept, Voices of Monterey Bay, The Seattle Times, The Monterey Herald, DFMworkers.org, KAZU-fm, PRXdigital and other outlets. My recent freelance work has been published and/or broadcast by Newsweek, The Nation, The Intercept, Voices of Monterey Bay, The Seattle Times, The Monterey Herald, DFMworkers.org, KAZU-fm, PRXdigital and other outlets.


Monterey County Herald
• Criminal Justice Reporter

  • Dec 2004 - Mar 2015


Monterey Institute of International Studies

• United States
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Adjunct Professor

  • 2013 - Jan 2014

  Teaching "Armed Groups: American Gangs" Teaching "Armed Groups: American Gangs"


Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies
• 2010-2011 Steinbeck Fellow

  • Mar 2010 - Jun 2011

Harvard University
• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee
• 2009 Nieman Fellow

  • Aug 2008 - Jun 2009


El Andar Magazine

• Editor In Chief

  • May 1998 - Sep 2003

  Editor of award-wining national bilingual, bicultural magazine. "A Latino magazine for the new millennium." Editor of award-wining national bilingual, bicultural magazine. "A Latino magazine for the new millennium."