Presentations, citations, awards and fellowships

With producer Oriana Zill de Granados at the Santa Barbara Film Festival

Presentations

I have given talks or led workshops on youth violence and gangs for:

• The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University
• University of California campuses at Berkeley, Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara
• Investigative Reporters and Editors
• Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
• Santa Barbara Film Festival
• The New York Latino Film Festival
• Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos
• San Francisco County Probation Department
• Central Coast Gang Investigators Association
• City of Modesto
• County of Skagit, Washington

Citations

My reporting has been cited as reference material in:

• The Oxford Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (August 2010 issue)
• The Yale Law and Policy Review (Fall 2008 issue)
• A History of Smuggling in Florida: Rum Runners and Cocaine Cowboys by Stan Zimmerman (The History Press 2006)
• La Familia-The Family: Prison Gangs in America by Gabriel C. Morales (Gang Prevention Services 2008)
• Federal and state courts

Awards and Honors

• Digital First Media, National DFMies finalist in investigative reporting, for ongoing beat coverage of problems at a prison psychiatric unit, 2013
• National Council on Crime and Delinquency
  PASS Award for Justice Reporting, “The Long Journey,” print series, 2012
• California Public Defenders’ Association, Gideon Award 2011
• California Newspaper Publishers Association
  Second Place, Best Feature “Informant or Regulator?” 2010
• California Newspaper Publishers Association
  Certificate of Achievement, “Down for Life,” public radio and print series, 2008
• National Council on Crime and Delinquency
  PASS Award for Justice Reporting, “Down for Life,” public radio and print series, 2007
• National Association of Hispanic Journalists
  Best Television Documentary, “Nuestra Familia, Our Family,” PBS, 2007
• International Chicano Film Festival, Mexico City
  Best Documentary, “Nuestra Familia, Our Family,” PBS, 2007
• Investigative Reporters and Editors
  Tom Renner Medal for Outstanding Crime Reporting, “Nuestra Familia, Our Family,” PBS, 2006
• National Council on Crime and Delinquency
  PASS Award for Justice Reporting, “Nuestra Familia, Our Family,” PBS, 2006
• Investigative Reporters and Editors
  Best Online Investigation, “South Florida’s Elusive Arms Baron,” Frontline/WORLD, 2003
• Columbia School of Journalism
  Overall Excellence Award for Online Journalism, PBS Frontline/WORLD Web site 2002
• New California Media
  Best Investigative Reporting, “The Nafta Gang,” El Andar magazine, 2000
• World Affairs Council
  Best International Reporting, “The Golf War in the Sacred Valley,” El Andar magazine, 1997

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• Research Fellow, Monterey Institute of International Studies 2012-2014
  Investigating women and gangs for the Center for Conflict Studies
  
• Steinbeck Fellow, San José State University 2010-2011
• Harvard University, Nieman Fellowship for Journalists, class of 2009
• Institute for Justice and Journalism Reporting Fellow, USC Annenberg 2007
• Frank McCulloch Investigative Reporting Fellow, 2001-2003, Center for Investigative Reporting
• Fund for Investigative Journalism, grantee, 2001
  “Silicon Shame” series