Eileen Truax
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(She/Her)
- Journalist, Freelance
- Content Director, porCausa Foundation
- Editor, Revista 5W
Barcelona, Mexico City, United States
As seen in:
Revista 5W,
porCausa Foundation,
Medium,
The New York Times,
The New York Times en Español,
El País,
EL PAÍS América,
The Washington Post,
Washington Post Opinions,
Barnes and Noble,
El Universal (Mexico),
La Afición
and
Covers:
Migration, borders, asylum, DreamAct, education, Mexico-US relation, Politics.
Doesn't Cover:
Drug trafficking.
🌎🌍 Periodista •Migrantóloga •Autora •✍️ @revista5W •Profe @MediaUAB •Consultora @OACNUDH •#RedLATAM •💜 @borinots •Produint pitiovaris.com 👊🏼 Visca Sants!
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Eileen Truax’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Eileen is a journalist and writer specialised in migration and politics. She was born in Mexico City, where she was a political reporter and a Congress correspondent. In 2004 she moved to Los Angeles. For seven years she worked for La Opinión, the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the US. In the past decade, her work has been published in several media outlets in the US, Latin America and Spain, such as The Washington Post, Vice, El Universal, Americas Quarterly, The New York Times ES, News…
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Interview
See all 13 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
Making "informative synthesis" for decision makers –before internet. We started at 5am cutting and pasting news (w/ scissors and glue).
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes. I used a computer for the first time in 1995, when I was 25.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Lois Lane.