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Oscar Avila
Affiliation during program: Chicago Tribune
Country Focus: Bolivia
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Fall 2004
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Oscar Avila covers immigration and ethnic communities for the Urban Affairs team of the Chicago Tribune. He also has contributed to the newspaper's national desk. Before arriving at The Tribune in 2000, he worked at The Kansas City Star for six years as the paper's Missouri correspondent and as a Metro reporter covering aviation and local government. He also wrote a weekly nightlife column for The Star. In 2000, he wrote a series, "Dominican Diamonds," about the influence of baseball in the Caribbean. He has worked at The Indianapolis Star as a Pulliam Fellow and at the San Jose Mercury News as a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund copy editor. He has also written for Europe magazine. In 2002 he received a fellowship from the University of Texas at El Paso and the CASE organization that brought journalists to the U.S.-Mexico border. He studied at the Universidad Nebrissensis in Madrid and earned a B.A. from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.
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