Ruxandra Guidi is an independent journalist working in radio, print, and multimedia. She reports regularly from the Caribbean, South and Central America, as well as the Southwestern United States and the US-Mexico border region.

She’s a recipient of Johns Hopkins University’s International Reporting Project (IRP) Fellowship, which took her to Haiti for a variety of stories in the Fall of 2008. Earlier that year, she and Bear Guerra worked on a series of reports for print, radio and television about the lives of coca farmers in Los Yungas, Bolivia, and about controversial drug policy under president Evo Morales. The reporting was made possible by a grant from the Washington-based Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Previously, she did reporting and production work for the BBC public radio news program, The World. Her stories focused on Latin American politics, human rights issues, rural communities, immigration, popular culture and music.

Ruxandra has a Master’s degree in journalism from U.C. Berkeley. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, she is now based in Austin, Texas, with husband and collaborator, Bear Guerra.