Ruxandra Guidi

Ruxandra Guidi has been telling stories for more than two decades. Her research, reporting and writing for public radio, podcasts and magazines have taken her throughout the United States, the Caribbean, South and Central America, as well as Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border region. After earning a Master’s degree in journalism from U.C. Berkeley in 2002, she assisted independent producers The Kitchen Sisters with their award-winning series Lost & Found Sound. She went on to work as a reporter, editor, and producer for Latino USA, The World, Fronteras Desk in San Diego-Tijuana, and KPCC Public Radio in Los Angeles. She's reported extensively throughout Central and South America as a freelance foreign correspondent based in Bolivia (2007-2009) and Ecuador (2014-2016).

Ruxandra is part of Homelands Productions, a journalism nonprofit cooperative founded in 1989; she is a columnist for the 55-year-old nonprofit magazine High Country News and a commissioning editor for the literary journal, Adi Magazine. She serves on the board of El Tímpano, a local reporting lab amplifying the voices of Oakland’s Latino and Mayan immigrants and the Association of Independents in Radio. As a former assistant professor of practice and assistant director of the Bilingual Journalism Program at the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism, Ruxandra advised students and taught audio storytelling, feature writing and freelancing for years. She continues to mentor emerging storytellers and coach one-on-one via the Association of Independents in Radio. She also consults regularly with various human rights, cultural and local news organizations.

In 2018, she was awarded the Susan Tifft Fellowship for women in documentary and journalism by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and in 2023, she won a Soros Equality Fellowship to produce the anthology podcast Happy Forgetting about racial justice in America. In 2024, she received a Fulbright Specialist grant to study and teach narrative audio storytelling in Madrid, Spain. Throughout her career, Ruxandra has collaborated with the BBC World Service, The World, NPR, Marketplace, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Orion, Adi Magazine, Guernica, High Country News, The New York Times, The Guardian, Virginia Quarterly Review, Foreign Policy and The Atlantic, among others. She’s a native of Caracas, Venezuela, currently based in Tucson, Arizona.