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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SAN GREGORIO ATLAPULCO, MEXICO - A week after Mexico City’s devastating earthquake, donations continue to pour in. One came this week from Seattle and was… -
A new lawsuit aims to safeguard Burien’s sanctuary policies for immigrants and keep the issue off the November ballot.TRANSCRIPTProposition 1 in Burien… -
Updated on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 11:33 a.m. Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Wednesday that his office is filing a multi-state… -
Nearly 18,000 young immigrants in Washington state are protected from deportation through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. But that… -
“I’m losing sleep,” said Graciela Nuñez Pargas. “A lot of us are not sleeping.”Nuñez is one of roughly 800,000 so-called “Dreamers” on edge around the… -
SUMAS, WASHINGTON — They walked along a dusty, country road, fields of ripe blueberries stretching for miles. This was a protest march to Sarbanand Farms,… -
Labor tensions have erupted at a berry farm in Sumas, Washington, on the border with Canada. Advocates say more than 120 people have walked off the job… -
Julie Davis, who was airlifted to Seattle from Saigon in 1975, shares her story. This week marks the 40th anniversary of Operation Babylift, the mass… -
State and local governments in Washington receive millions in federal police grants. This week, the Justice Department said some of these future grants… -
When the Department of Justice ordered a group of Seattle lawyers to stop helping in some immigration cases, the lawyers fought back.On Monday, U.S.…
