About this project |
This project is a series of vignettes meant to relay the views and experience of a few people who call the U.S. southern borderlands home. It is not meant to define the meaning of this near-2000-mile stretch of land, but examine what gets lost when "The Border" is simplified in the national political narrative. Part of this project included interviews with local journalists about what they believe national media coverage might be missing.
This project, and its title, was also inspired by Joan Didion's 2017 book South and West. To report this project, journalist Riley Robinson drove the length of the United States' southern border over four weeks in May and June and conducted more than 30 interviews. This endeavor was possible thanks to generous support from Northeastern University's Summer Scholars Independent Research Fellowship and dedicated mentorship from School of Journalism Professor Carlene Hempel. |
About the Author |
Riley Robinson is a third-year honors student at Northeastern University studying journalism with a minor in international affairs. She is a multimedia intern at The Christian Science Monitor and previously worked as a photojournalist at The Chautauquan Daily in upstate New York. Her work has also appeared in The GroundTruth Project and The Washington Post, and she was the 2019 runner-up in The New York Times / Nicholas Kristof win-a-trip essay contest.
You can get in touch here: [email protected] Instagram: @rirob Twitter: @rirob111 |