Economic mobility in Dade County

Anna Jean Kaiser

Anna Jean Kaiser reports on economic mobility in Miami-Dade County for the Miami Herald. A recipient of an Overseas Press Club scholarship, Kaiser will earn her master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2021. But before all of this, Kaiser, who is from the San Francisco Bay Area, graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, then moved to Brazil speaking only some Portuguese and having no journalism experience. Kaiser soon found herself fluent in the language and reporting for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, and The Guardian, covering the Zika virus, President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, the Summer Olympics and the deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, among other stories. This multimedia journalist speaks Portuguese and Spanish, and in 2018 she made several trips to the Venezuelan border to report on the migration crisis and the Venezuelan diaspora, which inspired her to expand her beat beyond Brazil and report throughout the Americas.

Miami Herald

The Miami Herald is a regional news organization that focuses its coverage on South Florida and the surrounding region of the Caribbean and Latin America, to which most of its residents have ties. It's one of the most diverse areas of the country. The largest county in our market, Miami-Dade, has a population that is more than 65 percent foreign born. The Herald has a strong tradition of accountability journalism, and has won more Pulitzer Prizes (22) than any news organization in the Southeast United States

Yadira Lopez

Yadira Lopez covers economic mobility for The Miami Herald. She’s part of a team effort to examine how the Miami-Dade area has shifted from a place where a middle income provided a comfortable life for hundreds of thousands to a metropolis beset by a housing crisis and severe inequality. Lopez has covered Latino issues for the Malheur Enterprise in Vale, Oregon, as a member of Report for America. She previously worked at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Florida and was editor at the Catalyst, the student paper at New College of Florida, where she received her undergraduate degree. She has worked as an English language assistant in France. Born in Santa Clara, Cuba, she grew up in Miami, Florida.

Miami Herald

The Miami Herald is a regional news organization that focuses its coverage on South Florida and the surrounding region of the Caribbean and Latin America, to which most of its residents have ties. It's one of the most diverse areas of the country. The largest county in our market, MIami-Dade, has a population that is more than 65 percent foreign born. The Herald has a strong tradition of accountability journalism, and has won more Pulitzer Prizes (22) than any news organization in the Southeast United States