Photo courtesy Arizona Highways Magazine

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.

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