Liz Jones
ReporterYear started with KUOW: 2006
Liz reports on immigration and emerging communities for KUOW. Her work covers issues within our region’s growing immigrant and refugee populations, as well as stories connected to minority groups with a longer history in the area.
She comes to KUOW after several years at an online news startup, which was later bought by Oxygen Media in New York. Her last position there was health editor for the network’s website.
Liz has also lived in Spain and Peru and speaks Spanish. She is a graduate of the University of Washington, with a degree in communications.
Liz’s work for KUOW has taken her to Mexico and India. Both those reporting trips produced award-winning documentaries. In 2009, Liz received a regional Murrow award for a documentary about indigenous Mexicans who migrate to the Seattle area. In 2014, she won a national Gracie award and RTNDA’s Kaleidoscope Award for a series that focused on immigration-related links between India and the Puget Sound region.
Her work has also been heard on national shows including NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Here & Now, PRI's The World, Latino USA, Marketplace, The Takeaway and BBC News Service.
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When Adam Crapser was three years old, an Oregon couple adopted him from South Korea. His life in America has been bleak at times. But Crapser, 41,… -
A Somali-American woman from Kent, Washington, has been found guilty of funneling money to a terrorist group. Court documents say the money paid for safe…
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A King County jury has found a Bellevue man not guilty of threatening a local Muslim woman with a gun. Advocates had called the incident a “hate attack”… -
For many refugees, the first year can feel like a race against the clock to set up a new life.You get a little cash up front and a few months of help from… -
Tu Tu is his full name, because Burmese people don't use last names.He is 20 when he arrives in Seattle. With his long bangs and torn jeans, he looks… -
The couple won't say why they left Iran.Did something bad happen?"Yes," Peiman Karimi, the husband, says. "Not me. To Neda.”Neda Sharifi Khalafabadi says… -
An investigation continues into the death of a homeless teenager in Seattle. The man was camped in his tent near an Interstate 5 off-ramp when a car… -
A refugee move to Seattle.He thought it would be paradise.Instead, he found guns, violence and struggle. -
Bill Radke speaks with KUOW's race and culture reporter Liz Jones about her series about refugee resettlement in the Puget Sound region. Jones tracked… -
Anger, fatigue, frustration, resolve. Those were some emotions that surfaced at a community gathering Thursday with Seattle police. It was a meeting of…
