IRE Panel: Investigating Human Rights in the Americas

June 27, 2014
San Francisco Marriott Marquis
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San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States

Alberto Arce joined the AP in February 2012 as a correspondent in Honduras. Arce grew up in Gijón in northern Spain and has a political science degree from the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. 

Alfredo Corchado was born in Durango, Mexico, grew up as a migrant worker in California and later moved to Texas. He has worked for the Dallas Morning News since 1993, currently serving as Mexico Bureau Chief. He has also worked for The Dallas Morning News in Washington and has covered Cuba.Previously he worked for several news organizations including The Wall Street Journal in Dallas and Philadelphia. His reporting has earned several awards, including The Maria Moors Cabot prize and the Elijah Parrish Lovejoy prize. He was a 2008-09 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He recently published his first nonfiction book, Midnight in Mexico.

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein is a Lecturer in the Journalism Department at Columbia College Chicago and the former database and investigative editor at Hoy. Starting in July 2013 he spent a semester as a Fulbright Scholar at the University Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile. His work has received local, national and international recognition, including an IRE Award in 2013.

Richard Marosi, a staff writer for the LA Times, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2013 for his stories on the fate of thousands of illegal immigrants who were deported to Mexico in recent years. He has covered Mexico's drug wars, producing a series on the Sinaloa drug cartel and sharing an Overseas Press Club award. In southeast Los Angeles County, his corruption investigations contributed to the indictment or ouster of more than a dozen politicians and city officials.

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