La verdadera crisis migratoria no está en la frontera
CNN Opinion, August 2021
The real immigration crisis isn't at the border
CNN Opinion, August 2021
Sus vidas al filo de la línea
The New York Review of Books, April 2021
Their Lives on the Line
The New York Review of Books, April 2021
Combating Climate Change
On Spec Podcast, April 2021
I went to Washington for joy and Amanda Gorman delivered it
CNN, January 2021
Motherhood on the Line
Longreads, December 2020
Ringing church bells, relief and schadenfreude: the world reacts to the Trump-Biden drama
CNN, November 2020
'A writer is one who writes': Covid has made life harder – but I'm still hopeful
The Guardian, October 2020
America's Eviction Epidemic
The New York Review of Books, September 2020 by Gabriel M Schivone with contributed reporting by Alice Driver
Back to the Land
Oxford American, Fall 2020 print edition
What's love got to do with it?
Longreads, August 2020
El pasaporte estadounidense, una vez premiado, ahora es objeto de sospecha
CNN en español, July 2020
US passport, once prized, is now an object of suspicion
CNN, July 2020
The Promised Land
Longreads, July 2020
At the US-Mexico border, asylum chaos and coronavirus fear
The New Humanitarian, June 2020
What the Arkansas meat plant workers I met want you to know
CNN, May 2020
'We're not essential, we're expendable'
Arkansas Times, May 2020
Rural preparedness in the time of coronavirus
Arkansas Times, April 2020
Mexican President's coronavirus missteps come at a great risk
CNN, March 2020
Can Mexico's weapons buyback program stem rising gun violence?
NBC News, February 2020
My Spoon, Your Bullet
Longreads, December 2019
A Writer Ventures Back to the Land that Made Her
Arkansas Life, November 2019
Why We Need More Women Journalists at the US-Mexico Border
World Ark Magazine of Heifer International, November 2019
El Viaje de Estrella
Las Raras Podcast, October 2019
LGBTQ Migrants Find Community at Mexico’s “House of Women”
Yes Magazine, October 2019
Life on the U.S. Asylum Waitlist: A Long and Dangerous Wait
National Geographic, September 2019
La vida de los solicitantes de asilo en Estados Unidos: una espera larga y peligrosa
National Geographic, September 2019
Canada has replaced US as goal for some migrants
CNN, September 2019
La meta para algunos migrantes es ahora Canadá y no Estados Unidos
CNN, September 2019
Border Crisis: What's it going to take?
CNN Newsroom with Ana Cabrera, September 2019
Oh, Girl!
Longreads, June 2019
¡Ay, qué niñas!
Longreads, June 2019
The tragic photo of dead migrants is proof our system is broken
CNN, June 2019
Trump's Mexico tariff plan overlooks the root causes of migration
CNN, June 2019
El plan de aranceles de México pasa por alto las causas fundamentales de la migración
CNN, June 2019
Mothers are the Backbone of the Revolution
Longreads, May 2019
Anthony Bourdain Remembered (contributor)
Ecco Books, May 2019
The American Way
Longreads, March 2019
Trans National Migration
Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, April 2019
Behind one of the largest Holy Week processions in Latin America
National Geographic, April 2019
Re: re: re: re:
California Sunday Magazine, April 2019
Migrants are Shuttered Away in Abandoned Mexican Factory, Not Allowed Exit to Request Asylum
The Takeaway, February 2019
Mexican Cops Do Trump’s Dirty Work Thwarting Asylum Seekers
The Daily Beast, February 2019
Inside the Migrant Caravan
C-SPAN, February 2019
Trump's border visit is premised on lies
CNN, January 2019
Real Stories From Life Inside the Migrant Caravan
The Nib, December 2018
Voces de La Caravana de Migrantes
The Nib, December 2018
Across the Language Barrier
Colombia Journalism Review, print edition on race, Fall 2019
Telling Migrant Stories: Let us begin with the things not seen
Open Canada, December 2018
An Intimate Look at Life Inside the Migrant Caravan
Time Magazine, November 2018
When You Carry All that You Love With You
Longreads, November 2018
13,000 migrant children in detention: America's horrifying reality
CNN, October 2018
Hay 13.000 niños inmigrantes en centros de detención: la escalofriante realidad en EE.UU.
CNN, October 2018
“They Want to Silence Us”
Lenny Letter, October 2018
The Never-Ending Girls Trip
Lenny Letter, September 2018
Why every American should pay attention to Nicaragua
CNN, September 2018
The White House could tweet about cases besides Mollie Tibbetts
CNN, August 2018
Every Last Drop
Topic Magazine, August 2018
Ivanka Trump's 'good cop' routine is a sham
CNN, August 2018
La rutina del “buen policía” de Ivanka Trump es una farsa
CNN, August 2018
Here: Oark, Arkansas
The New Territory, August 2018
Scenes From a Migration Crisis—On Both Sides of the Border
National Geographic, August 2019
Escenas de una crisis migratoria a ambos lados de la frontera
National Geographic, August 2019
Mexico's next president is the perfect foil to Trump
CNN, July 2018
I would body-slam a groper, too
CNN, July 2018
'He Might Change His Mind in Minutes or Hours.' Migrant Mothers React to Trump Ending Border Separations
Time Magazine, June 2018
The Road to Asylum
Longreads, June 2018
En camino al asilo
Longreads, June 2018
Unprecedented wave of political violence rocks Mexico
PRI, June 2018
Anthony Bourdain was a voice for the underdog
CNN, June 2018
Anthony Bourdain, la voz que se dedicó a defender a los más débiles
CNN, June 2018
The U.S. Exported Deadly Anti-Choice Policy Abroad. Now It’s Coming Home
HuffPost, May 2018
Why I Travel to Places Deemed “Too Dangerous” for Women
Lenny Letter, May 2018
No Journalist Should Have to Know How to Survive in Prison
Longreads, May 2018
How one reporter uncovered the U.S. role in a massacre in Mexico
Univision, May 2018
Cómo una reportera descubrió el papel de los Estados Unidos en una masacre en México
Univision, May 2018
Assassins murdered Honduran activist Berta Cáceres. Her mother and daughters have taken up the fight.
PRI, April 2018
What it’s like to be trans when both language and laws refuse to recognize your identity
PRI, April 2018
'Forgive Yourself. And Forgive Me.'
Longreads, March 2018
The women and girl migrants who disappear, and the feminist policies that could save them
Open Canada, March 2018
The Mutilated and the Disappeared
Longreads, January 2018
Los mutilados y los desaparecidos
Longreads, January 2018
Trump's Mexico wall would be a gift to the drug cartels
CNN, January 2018
El muro de Trump en México podría ser un regalo para los carteles de la droga
CNN, January 2018
Meet the Women Fighting One of the World’s Most Oppressive Anti-Abortion Laws
Narratively, January 2018
The Mother of El Salvador's Trans-Rights Movement
Lenny Letter, January 2018
What women's lives are like when abortion is a crime
CNN, October 2017
Así es la vida de las mujeres en este país donde incluso el aborto espontáneo es un crimen
CNN, October 2017
Inside the Culture of Tattooed Makeup in Mexico
Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 2017
Trapped on the Tarmac, Watching Mexico City Shake
CNN, September 2017
Mexico City Earthquake
BBC, September 2017
Mexico City Earthquake
Hromaske.ua (Ukranian TV), September 2017
Searching for a Mother's Truth at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Lenny Letter, September 2017
“They call you ‘boy’ until you 50 or 54”
Scalawag, August 2017
Rethinking the dangers women journalists face
Women in the World (associated with the New York Times), August 2017
Brick by Brick
Arkansas Life, July 2017
Father of Migrants
Longreads, June 2017
El padre de los migrantes
Longreads, June 2017
The Shit Men Say to Me When I Travel
Outside Magazine, June 2017
Dam Nation: The False Promise Of America's Artificial Fishing Economies
Pacific Standard, June 2017
Meet the Cubans Who Find Connection in Havana's Wi-Fi Parks
City Lab, May 2017
Journalistic Depictions of Violence Against Women in Mexico
Oxford Research Encyclopedias, March 2017
Journalist traveled almost halfway around the world to meet her mom at the march in D.C.
Women in the World (associated with the New York Times), January 2017
Trying to shut her up: Indigenous activist facing threats stands up for peace in Colombia
Women Under Siege, January 2017
“We Want to Stay Alive”: Ending Feminicide in Juárez, Mexico
World Policy Journal, Winter 2016
Not Yet Lost
Oxford American, May 2016
The courageous Colombian activist going head-to-head with mining interests
Women in the World (associated with the New York Times), June 2016
Mothers of the Disappeared
Project Syndicate, September 2016
Las otras víctimas de Juárez: las madres que buscan justicia y no tienen respuestas
Univision, September 2016
Stale Bread with Ham and Rum: Tourism in the Time of Cuba
Vice Munchies, August 2016
Mush, mush, mush! How husky racing saved an author and inspired a memoir
The Guardian, July 2016
Nidia Becerra, la ambientalista que defiende a los indígenas Inga de las mineras
Univision, July 2016
Notes on Eating the World's Largest Living Arthropod
Vice Munchies, November 2015
Four women were also raped and killed in Mexico journalist murder—but media calls them promiscuous
Women Under Siege, August 2015
Talking to Alice Driver about Violence Against Women in Juárez
Longreads, July 2015
In Mexico, Small-Time Crooks Are Kidnapping People's Pets
Vice, July 2015
Understanding Femicide And The Disappeared Women Of Juarez Mexico
HuffPost Live, May 2015
Femicide in Juárez is Not a Myth
Texas Observer, September 2015
The Future of Food According to Andrew Zimmern
Vice Munchies, September 2015
La ausencia vive en Ciudad Juárez
Vice Mexico, November 2015
"Shame and despair turn out to be her superpower": New ballet drama "Flesh and Bone" digs deep into incest, shame and the body in the elite dance world
Salon, November 2015
Salvaging the luminosity of a lost city
Open Democracy, July 2015
My Homeland
Short documentary film, Summer 2015
My Own Trap
Vela, 2015
Disappearances Have to Disappear
Vela, 2015
I Use My Body Like Money
Vela, 2015
The Jagged, Gilded Script of Scars
Vela, 2015
The Art of the Mistake
Vela, 2015
We Carry Our Homeland With Us, And It Weighs Heavy Like a Rock from the Creek
The New Territory, 2015
More or Less Dead: Feminicide, Haunting, and the Ethics of Representation in Mexico
University of Arizona Press, March 2015
Freedom Summer and the unfinished work of the civil rights movement
Al Jazeera English, June 2014
Women take on the 'confidence gap'
Al Jazeera English, April 2014
Teachers challenge a President: protests suppressed in Mexico
Democracy Now, September 2013
If Images Could Fill Our Empty Spaces
Short documentary film, December 2013
Lena Dunham: "I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute"
Salon, December 2013