Jean Carolyn Guerrero (born March 31, 1988)^[1] is an American investigative journalist,^[2][3] author,^[4] and former foreign correspondent.^[5] She is the author of Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir, winner of the PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize,^[6] and Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda, published in 2020 by William Morrow. Guerrero's KPBS series America's Wall^[7] won an Emmy Award. Her essay, "My Father Says He's a 'Targeted Individual.' Maybe We All Are", was selected for The Best American Essays anthology of 2019.^[8]

Guerrero graduated from The Bishop's School, received a B.A. in journalism with a minor in neuroscience from the University of Southern California^[9] and an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction from Goucher College.^[9][10]

From 2010 to 2013, Guerrero was a Mexico City bureau correspondent for The Wall Street Journal^[11][12] and Dow Jones Newswires, reporting on Mexico and Central America.^[13] She was an investigative reporter for KPBS in San Diego from 2015 to 2019.^[14] Guerrero is a regular contributor to NPR, PBS NewsHour^[15] and PRI's The World,^[16] with appearances on Democracy Now!,^[17] MSNBC^[18] and CBC^[19] among others. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times,^[20][21] the Columbia Journalism Review,^[22] Vanity Fair,^[23] Wired,^[24] The Daily Beast,^[25] The Nation^[26] and other outlets. Guerrero is an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times.^[27][28][29]

Guerrero lives in La Mesa, California.^[35] Her mother is a physician,^[1] and her sister Michelle Ruby is a painter and muralist.^[36][37]

• Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir. One World, 2018. ISBN 9780399592393^[38][39]
• Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda. William Morrow, 2020. ISBN 9780062986719^{[40][41][42][43][44][45]}

• PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize for Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir^[6]
• Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Pacific Southwest Chapter^[46] for the series America's Wall
• San Diego Press Club Excellence in Journalism Award for Investigative Reporting: Investors in Donald Trump's Failed Mexico Resort Speak Out^[47]
• San Diego Society of Professional Journalists 2019 Journalist of the Year^[48]

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