Ruxandra (Rux) Guidi

Ruxandra Guidi has been telling stories for more than two decades. Her reporting and writing for public radio, podcasts and magazines has 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 worked extensively throughout Central and South America as a freelance foreign correspondent based in Bolivia (2007-2009) and in Ecuador (2014-2016).

Ruxandra is the president of the board of Homelands Productions, a journalism nonprofit cooperative founded in 1989, and a correspondent for the 54-year-old nonprofit magazine High Country News. She also serves on the board of El Tímpano, a local reporting lab amplifying the voices of Oakland’s Latino and Mayan immigrants. 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.

Currently, she is an independent editor and contributor to various podcasts and magazines, and she is finishing her first novel, represented by Amanda Orozco at Transatlantic Agency. She’s available for one-on-one coaching on storytelling via the Association of Independents in Radio. Alongside fellow independent Lygia Navarro, Ruxandra runs @NarrativeGigs. 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, in 2024.

Throughout her career, Ruxandra has collaborated with the BBC World Service, The World, NPR, Marketplace, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Orion, The Walrus, Guernica, High Country News, The New York Times, The Guardian, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Atlantic, among others. She’s a native of Caracas, Venezuela, and is currently based in Tucson, Arizona.