Perla Trevizo joined the Chattanooga Times Free Press in 2007 and covers immigration/diversity issues and higher education.
She holds a master’s degree in newswire journalism from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Texas.
In 2011 she participated in the Bringing Home the World international reporting fellowship program sponsored by the International Center for Journalists, producing a series on Guatemalan immigrants for which she won the David Ignatius Award for International Reporting. In 2010 she was selected among 100 applicants to participate in a workshop in Washington, D.C., on immigration coverage sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation. Previously she received an honorable mention for her story “Families Broken Apart” from the Tennessee Associated Press Managing Editors.
Prior to coming to Chattanooga, Perla worked in Texas for two of her hometown newspapers, the El Paso Times and El Diario de El Paso, covering politics, courts and immigration issues. She also interned as a translator at Dow Jones Newswire and in the courts section at the news agency Efe in Madrid.
Contact Perla at 423-757-6578 or ptrevizo@timesfreepress.com.
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From early on, Marlen Rodriguez knew she wanted to go to college, but it wasn't until she was in middle school and joined a summer program at Dalton State College that she actually felt it could become a reality.
As the pressure builds for colleges not only to enroll more students but actually graduate them, more schools are turning to their admission requirements as part of the solution.
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UTC's Philip Oldham is expected to be named the next president of Tennessee Technological University, pending approval by the Tennessee Board of Regents on Friday.
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