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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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...
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Burien Council races so heated, we were asked to leave election night party
Just south of Seattle, the immigration debate took center stage in a closely watched election.
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Will Burien elect its first Latino to City Council?
Election night could mark an historic milestone for the City of Burien, just south of Seattle. Two candidates have a shot at becoming the first Latino elected to the City Council — or the first two.
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Burien's response to letter naming undocumented residents
Bill Radke talks to KUOW's immigration reporter Liz Jones about a letter that was mailed to some residents in Burien that listed the names and addresses...
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After controversial flier, Burien neighbors fight back with 'love letters'
A few days after a controversial flier circulated in Burien, a neighborhood group is fighting back with a mass mailing of their own. The flier that...
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Trump’s latest travel ban met with prayer in Seattle
Immigrants and advocates gathered in Seattle to pray Wednesday, the day a new travel ban was set to kick in. Just hours before, court rulings in two...
