Los Angeles, California

Sandra Márquez is a Los Angeles-based feature writer specializing in the immigrant experience. Born in California to Colombian-born parents, she is drawn to the stories of people who navigate between two worlds. Sandra has worked as a staff writer for The Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Miami Herald, where she covered the Cuban and Haitian communities; written news features from Haiti, Kosovo, and Zimbabwe; and contributed to team coverage resulting in two Pulitzer Prizes. Prior to that, she worked in Haiti as a human rights observer for a joint Organization of American States-United Nations mission, and as a correspondent for Reuters. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in political science in 1991.

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