Angela Gervasi is a freelance writer and radio journalist. She’s currently based in New York, where she works as a production fellow for This American Life.

Angela has spent years reporting in the U.S.-Mexico border region. She most recently worked for the Nogales International newspaper in the border town of Nogales, Arizona. There, she broke stories on issues ranging from a large-scale embezzlement scheme to a doctor accused of sexual assault while continuing to practice. She also covered the cross-border economy, migration and environmental issues. Before that, she hosted NPR’s Morning Edition at KNAU in Northern Arizona.

She’s also reported on dissident artists in Havana, Cuba; the history of the border fence; and a secretive government-led railroad project in the Mexican state of Sonora. Once, she got to fly over Arizona in a five-person Cessna plane… which was pretty cool.