Valeria Fernández is an independent journalist in Phoenix, Arizona. She worked for La Voz Newspaper for the last six years covering the immigration beat. The National Association of Hispanic Publications (NAHP) named her the 2004 Latina Journalist of the Year. In 2005, NAHP recognized her sustained coverage of Proposition 200, Arizona’s first immigration law.
On 2009, her series on Maricopa County Sheriff's immigration raids in Hispanic neighborhoods was commended with another national award by NAHP.
Her work probing all angles of the explosive immigration debate in the border state has been published in La Opinión of Los Angeles, and Colorlines magazine, and honored numerous times by the Arizona Press Club and the Arizona Newspaper Association. Her stories close to the heart of immigrant communities have been published in the Arizona Republic.
She is currently a guest contributor on www.racewire.org.
Fernández was born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay and moved to the United States ten years ago. She holds a B.A in Political Science from Arizona State University.
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