Fellows & Editors
Emily Alpert
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 2011
- Affiliation:
- voiceofsandiego
- Country:
- Bolivia
- Year:
- 2011
Emily Alpert reports on education for the nonprofit news website voiceofsandiego.org. Her education reporting has won national honors for investigative reporting, beat coverage and blogging from the Education Writers Association, the Online News Association and the Scripps Howard Foundation, including the top prize for investigative reporting in small markets for a piece called “The School Guru Who Promised Rescue and Brought Ruin.”
Before breaking into journalism, Emily graduated from the University of Chicago, where she studied history with a focus on race in the twentieth century.
Follow a live feed of her tweets, articles, and reports from Bolivia.
Stories
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Learning the Language of Bolivia’s Ambitious Education Reform
Evo Morales is the first indigenous president of Bolivia, even though almost two-thirds of the country's population are indigenous. Upon entering the office, he enacted several new laws affecting the indigenous...
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In Bolivia, Many Indigenous Communities Turn to Vigilantism to Fight Crime
Photo: Emily Alpert If a man kills another man in the harsh high plains of Jesús de Machaca or the lush lowlands of Beni, the people who catch him might not...
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As Morales Pushes for More Reforms, Bolivians Express Frustration
Photo: Emily Alpert Demonstrators in Bolivia demanded President Evo Morales back down from his plan to increase fuel prices and reroute a planned highway. Evo Morales swept into power in Bolivia as...
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Morales Tries to Take Revolution to Kindergarten
Decades ago, when Alejandra Cruz first came to La Paz from the little village of Choquenaira, the other children pulled her long braids, tripped her after class and knocked her bowl of...
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Bolivian Migrants Ride Out Hard Times
Everything seems to be under construction in this town in central Bolivia. McMansions topped with tile and ornamental swans look as though they dropped from the sky. Hulking concrete shells sit on...
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