Photo courtesy Arizona Highways Magazine
Terry Greene Sterling, the White Woman in the Barrio, is the first Writer-in-Residence at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She is a three-time winner of Arizona’s highest journalism honor, the Virg Hill Journalist of the Year Award.
She was a staff investigative reporter at Phoenix New Times for 13 years. Her stories have appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek, Newsweek.com, salon.com, the Nieman Narrative Digest, The Daily Beast, Preservation Magazine, Arizona Highways, Phoenix Magazine, The Arizona Republic and High Country News. Sterling’s award-winning Phoenix New Times investigative series on white-collar fraud in the Baptist Foundation of Arizona garnered widespread national attention and was the topic of a segment of CNBC’s “American Greed.”
A winner of 49 national and regional journalism awards, Sterling earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative nonfiction from Goucher College in 2004 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the Cronkite School in 1984. She is currently under contract with the Globe Pequot Press for a book on immigration that will be published in 2010.
#1 by Anonymous on September 17, 2009 - 9:59 pm
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Hi,
I discovered you via Twitter and really appreciate your perspective and information you provide (plus great photos that make me homesick).
I am a Latina raised in Tucson and Michigan, and I really really appreciate having a white ally who clearly cares about what is happening to immigrants, esp. on the southwestern border.
As a Latina who grew up in the SW and married an Mexican national, I have experienced racism my whole life. To see a white person openly recognize it….that it exists and is wrong…well it is a balm to the wounds I endure and gives me hope that justice will prevail. I was so surprised to see the content of your site and the twitter posts that I actually had to do a double-take at first. Then I followed you!
#2 by White Woman in Barrio on September 20, 2009 - 10:51 am
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Thank you.
#3 by amy on October 7, 2009 - 10:44 pm
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i finally got the chance to sit down and read a good hunk of this blog, and not surprisingly, it’s TERRIFIC and IMPORTANT and HONEST. terry is an amazing writer and reporter — you are in good hands, readers!
#4 by lorri hibbert on December 7, 2009 - 5:30 pm
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I’m honored to know you.
#5 by Rick Jervis on January 8, 2010 - 3:23 pm
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Terry –
Really enjoyed your website. Interesting, insightful, well-done. Congrats.
I’m the Gulf Coast Correspondent for USA TODAY, based in New Orleans. I’ve written about immigration issues in the past and I’m interested in doing some more, particularly out of Arizona or Texas.
What would you say are the top issues or stories out there at the moment? Any other people I should connect with?
Feel free to contact me via email: rjervis@usatoday.com.
Thanks in advance. Hope to hear from you.
Rick Jervis
USA TODAY
#6 by Anonymous on January 19, 2010 - 7:30 pm
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Your writing is compelling, as usual. Is there a solution to the “drug wars” or “war on drugs”? In the final analysis, do politicians on either side of the border really care? The deaths just become statistics and have become meaningless to other than family members.