Ruxandra Guidi is a journalist and producer with experience working in radio, print, and multimedia. She has reported from the Caribbean, South and Central America, as well as the U.S.-Mexico border region. Currently, she’s a reporter with KPBS in San Diego, focusing on border and immigration issues for both local and national audiences.
Most recently, she published a year-long investigative piece about carbon markets and forests in Panama with the help of a grant from the Christensen Fund. In the Fall of 2009, she taught a college-level class in the Radio-Film-Television Department at the University of Texas, Austin, called “Creative Storytelling with Sound”. She has also taught independent workshops on radio and multimedia to media and nonprofit organizations. She’s a recipient of Johns Hopkins University’s International Reporting Project (IRP) Fellowship, which took her to Haiti for a project about development aid and human rights in 2008. That year, she was also a finalist for the Livingston Award for International Reporting, given to U.S. journalists under 35 years of age. Earlier that year, Ruxandra 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, rural communities, immigration, popular culture and music. She filed reports from Miami, FL, Austin, TX, the U.S.-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, National Public Radio, The Walrus Magazine, Guernica Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, World Vision Report, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Dispatches and Marketplace radio programs. She has also helped in the production of the radio documentary “Los Homies: Gangs in Central America,” in Honduras, with NPR correspondent Mandalit del Barco.
A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Ruxandra is now based in San Diego, California. She may be reached at ru@fonografiacollective.com.
