Caroline Tracey holds a PhD in geography from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA In Russian literature from Yale University. Her reporting,essays, and academic research have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Guardian, and the Journal of Latino and Latin American Studies, among other publications. She has been awarded a Silvers Foundation grant, a Fulbright fellowship, and Columbia University’s Ira A. Lipman Fellowship in Human and Civil Rights Journalism. Caroline currently works as an editor at Zócalo Public Square and as an independent journalist covering the Southwestern US and Mexico.