Homelands board president Ruxandra (Rux) Guidi has been elected to the board of AIR, an association of more than 1,500 journalists, podcasters, story editors, audio producers, documentarians, engineers, sound designers, and media entrepreneurs.
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Reflections on fathers and fatherlands
In an essay in Adi Magazine, Ruxandra Guidi explores the complicated relationship between her, her late father, and Venezuela, the country she left as a teenager.
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Podcast recalls justice struggles
Homelands producer Ruxandra Guidi has launched a podcast called “Happy Forgetting,” a collection of “personal and opinionated” audio essays and documentaries by audio makers from across the country.
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Guidi named Soros Equality Fellow
Homelands’ producer and board president is one of ten people receiving grants for projects that promote racial equality. She will use the award to produce a narrative podcast, Happy Forgetting, that tells untold stories about racial justice victories in the United States.
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Eco-fascism uncovered
In an article for the Sierra Club, Ruxandra Guidi looks at the connections between a 2019 massacre of Latinos in El Paso and a history of racism in environmental movements. She argues that the killer was not the first to make the claim that poor brown people were an environmental threat.
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Real men drive electric trucks
In a reported essay for The Atlantic, Ruxandra Guidi explores the often-ignored relationship between American notions of masculinity and attitudes toward environmental responsibility. Is it too much to hope that men can learn to care about the climate?
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Mila’s Meditations
In an audio story for BorderLore, Ruxandra Guidi and her seven-year-old daughter find calm in a new kind of ritual, one rooted in everyday gratitude and signs of spring in the desert Southwest.
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Ever crueler
The United States immigration system wasn’t always so punitive or so cruel, observes Ruxandra Guidi in High Country News.
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Letters from Miguel
In an essay for High Country News, Homelands’ Ruxandra Guidi tells of her attempt to assuage her feelings of helplessness by connecting with a young Guatemalan in detention in California. “Over just the past two …
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Rux launches new career at U of Arizona
Homelands producer and board president Ruxandra Guidi has moved to Tucson, where she will begin a new position as a professor in the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism. Ruxandra has reported throughout the United …
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Trump’s false narrative of chaos
In her latest commentary for High Country News, Ruxandra Guidi writes how the U.S.-Mexico border has become a stage for political theater, and why the Trump administration’s “deterrence” tactic against undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers is cruel and inhumane. …
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Ruxandra Guidi named Susan E. Tifft Fellow
Homelands member Ruxandra Guidi has been named Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies 2018 Susan E. Tifft Fellow. The award, now in its second year, offers a woman journalist or documentarian the opportunity to spend …
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KCRW launches “Going Gray in LA”
One of Los Angeles’ NPR affiliates, KCRW, has launched Bear and Rux’s year-long multi-platform project about aging in the city’s working-class and immigrant neighborhoods. “Going Gray in LA: Stories of Aging along Broadway” is part …
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Ecuador welcomes its migrants home
On the day Ruxandra Guidi arrived in Quito last year, she spoke with the owner of her bed and breakfast, an English-speaking Ecuadorean in his late twenties with obvious entrepreneurial savvy. He’d attended college in the U.S. on his parents’ …
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Guidi and Guerra win environmental reporting prize for work in Panama
The environmental website Mongabay.org has selected Homelands producer-members Ruxandra Guidi and Bear Guerra for a Special Reporting Initiative award for their multimedia project on climate change and community forestry in Panama. Ruxandra and Bear have reported from the area before, for …
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Indigenous Groups Weigh Risks in Climate Strategy
A new post on the National Geographic blog takes a look at the climate change mitigation strategy known as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) from the perspective of two indigenous groups who will …
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Please Support our Friends at Fonografia Collective
If you believe in the power of multimedia documentary, you’ll want to check out Fonografia Collective. It’s a partnership between a photographer, Bear Guerra, and a print and audio journalist, Ruxandra Guidi, and they do …