Marina Walker Guevara
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Radio: Bio of Marina Walker Guevara
December 3, 2006
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For the past 12 years, Marina Walker Guevara has written for newspapers and magazines in Argentina and the United States on issues ranging from public health and the environment to courts and education. She graduated magna cum laude from Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina, with a bachelor's degree in communication sciences and earned a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.
Walker Guevara started her career in her hometown of Mendoza, Argentina, where she worked at a radio station and was a reporter at Los Andes, a regional newspaper. In 2002, she won an Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship to work at the Philadelphia Inquirer. She currently works as a reporter for the Center for Public Integrity, an investigative reporting organization in Washington, DC. The focus of her reporting is government accountability, Latin America, public health and the environment.
In 2005, Walker Guevara won the Missouri Press Association Investigative Reporting Award for small newspapers; in March 2006 she was awarded the European Commission Lorenzo Natali Award for human rights reporting in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. She won the Reuters/UICN Media Award for Environmental Reporting. The winning story was published in a Colombian magazine called Gatopardo and told the story of a six-year old girl in La Oroya, Peru, who stopped growing because of lead intoxication. Recently, her stories have been published in the Miami Herald, Gatopardo, and Mother Jones magazine.
-- Bio provided by Marina Walker Guevara
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