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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Seattle police cleared out a homeless camp known as Nickelsville Friday. It’s been temporarily located on South Dearborn Street, near the freeway, since… -
A new homeless encampment in South Seattle is set to open Tuesday, March 8, near the Othello light rail station. It will have room for up to a hundred… -
Steve Graham got in line late. His number was 136.But he was optimistic about the chance of a lifetime: a shot at brand new, low-income housing in an… -
About 100 people rallied in downtown Seattle Thursday to protest the shooting death of an African American man.The protesters interrupted traffic as they… -
Chinook Jargon was a trade language that once ruled the Northwest. But when was it used, and how many people spoke it? Listener Michelle LeSourd of… -
My friend Ben Nakamura has known he was gay since 7th grade.He came out early on, but he put off telling his parents.“There were always times when my mom… -
It’s 7 a.m., time for the morning lottery inside Casa Latina’s worker center.One guy shakes a blue canister then pulls out plastic ID cards for the 40 or… -
A silent vigil Wednesday in downtown Seattle marked the deaths of Jeannine Zapata and James Tran. The two were fatally shot last week at a homeless… -
Steve O’Connor was 63 when he told his full story – to a jury in King County."When Dan Adamson came to my house and I’m 12 years old, he says, 'I’ve… -
A former government attorney in Seattle pleaded guilty Friday to falsifying documents in a deportation case. KUOW’s race and culture reporter Liz Jones…
