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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Auburn police officer Aaron Williams furrows his brow as he reroutes his patrol car to a 911 call.“Yeah, you can send me,” Williams responds to the radio… -
A young mom with a stroller took a seat in front as about 50 people filled the pews at a church in Bellevue on a Thursday morning.Many are immigrant… -
A federal judge in Seattle has granted a nationwide order that allows immigration lawyers to keep assisting people in deportation, as usual. This comes… -
In Seattle today, a panel of federal judges heard arguments on President Trump's second travel ban.Following a lawsuit from the state of Hawaii, the ban… -
When people face deportation at a court in Seattle or Tacoma, and they don’t have an attorney, the immigration judge will often drop a name: The Northwest… -
Supporters of immigrants and workers rights rallied through Seattle on Monday as part of the annual May Day demonstration.Most of the rallies were… -
Seattle area immigration attorney Luis Cortes knew this was a case he had to take. But he never guessed that his client, Daniel Ramirez Medina, would… -
Liz Jones talks with Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson about the role of local governments in federal immigration enforcement. The Attorney… -
When it comes to undocumented immigrants, what's your role as a city, school or hospital? Or cop?Public officials across the state have put these… -
Washington state’s highest-ranking judge is still waiting for federal immigration officials to write her back.Washington State Supreme Court Chief Justice…
