Liz Jones
Editor
About
Liz Jones is an editor for daily news, features and special projects. She started at KUOW in 2005 and worked primarily as a reporter until 2018. Her coverage largely focused on immigration and underrepresented communities.
Her work has also been heard on national shows including NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Here & Now, PRI's The World, Latino USA, Snap Judgment, The Takeaway and BBC News Service.
She is a NW native who's also lived in Spain, Peru, NYC and Ritzville, WA.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, Spanish
Pronouns: she/her
Podcasts
Stories
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Nicki Hamilton, 83, Skagit Valley choir singer and women’s rights supporter
Nicki Hamilton was a pilot, a world traveler, a ham radio operator, a chorale member, and, perhaps above all, a New Yorker. She died of coronavirus on March 21 at the Skagit Valley Hospital in Mount Vernon. She was 83.
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Health
Did you lose someone to Covid-19? Share your story with us
KUOW would like to help honor the lives we've lost
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Parenting during a pandemic and remembering when I was a kid, when Mount St. Helens erupted
“Let’s get ice cream at King’s,” I suggested as Walter bounded down the school stairs, backpack in one hand, loose papers and his trumpet case in the other.
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Goodnight, Seattle. A story in pictures
At night in Seattle, There was a high-rise janitor. And a karaoke party with a night Lyft driver.
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Seattle sues Trump administration over threat to 'sanctuary cities'
Seattle will not be bullied into helping with federal immigration enforcement, Mayor Murray said on Wednesday. The city is taking the Trump administration to court over what it calls “an unconstitutional order.”
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Bob Ferguson weighs legal response to Trump admin's end of Flores agreement
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I came to America because I'm a Christian. Then they took my son
A mom and her 7-year-old son traveled to the U.S. from Guatemala. She is currently at the federal detention in SeaTac. This is her story, as told to Liz...
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This attorney has been where ICE detains families. It wrecked her
Family detention — two words that still haunt Danielle Rosché, an immigration attorney.
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Two women ask for the Starbucks bathroom code. One of them is black
What would you do if a Starbucks barista refused to give you the bathroom code? Or refused to give it to your black friend?
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To stay in America, he must convince a judge his tattoo isn’t gang related
A federal judge in Seattle has upheld, for now, Daniel Ramirez Medina’s DACA status.