Ruxandra Guidi currently works as a radio and print freelance journalist for both South and Central America. Since 2007, she’s been reporting from Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Panama, Venezuela and Mexico.
She’s a current recipient of Johns Hopkins University’s International Reporting Project (IRP) Fellowship, which will take her to Haiti in the Fall of 2008.
Earlier this year, she 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. She filed reports from Miami, FL, Austin, TX, the US-Mexico border, Mexico, Honduras and Turkey.
After earning a Master’s degree in journalism from U.C. Berkeley in 2002, she worked for independent radio producers The Kitchen Sisters. In 2003, she moved to Austin, TX, where she did production and reporting work for NPR’s weekly show, Latino USA.
Ruxandra has also produced features and documentaries for the BBC World Service in Spanish, The Walrus Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, World Vision Report, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Dispatches and Marketplace radio programs, and has collaborated in the production of the radio documentary “Los Homies: Gangs in Central America,” with NPR correspondent, Mandalit del Barco.
A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Ruxandra is now based in La Paz, where she collaborates regularly with her husband, documentary photographer Roberto “Bear” Guerra.
