Jean Guerrero is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and a visiting professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. 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. jeanguerrero.com