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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Arsalan Bukhari: Muslim kids shouldn't be afraid to live here
One of the big stories of 2017 was the Trump administration's travel ban targeting some Muslim countries. Arsalan Bukhari of the Council on American...
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He came face to face with ICE and stopped an arrest
Morning traffic streamed past a busy intersection in South Seattle, past a family-style pizza shop and a brightly-painted Mexican restaurant that still...
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Love of trains put these victims on Amtrak 501
Two friends who shared a lifelong love of trains, Zack Willhoite and Jim Hamre, had looked forward to the inaugural run of Amtrak 501 from Seattle to...
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Seattle calls DOJ threat to sanctuary policies 'legally and morally wrong'
Sanctuary policies in Seattle and King County have put some money on the line, and drawn questions from the feds. Local officials defended their...
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Travel ban back in Seattle federal court as judges hear appeal
The Trump administration told a federal appeals court Wednesday that the president has broad authority to prevent people from any country from traveling...
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What happens after a person is deported? Many people try again
In a far corner of the Mexico City Airport, past all the shops inside the international arrivals terminal, you’ll find the N door. This is a special...
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Judge denies bond for UW student facing deportation
Court hearings at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma are typically a quiet affair. But this week, a busload of students and faculty from the...
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How UW students, teachers stepped in to halt a deportation (for now)
Updated 11/27/2017, 1:55 p.m. Bangally Fatty, a University of Washington student who faces deportation, could be allowed to return to his Seattle home...
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What does it mean for a university to offer sanctuary?
The University of Washington is facing a test of what it means to be a so-called sanctuary campus. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has detained a...
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Lawsuit: 'It's the dismantling of the U.S. refugee program'
After former U.S. Army Captain Allen Vaught was ambushed and hit with an IED in Iraq, a translator he’d hired traveled nearly 60 miles to make sure he...