Carolina Cuellar
RGV Reportercarolina@tpr.org
Carolina Cuellar reports for Texas Public Radio from the city of McAllen where she covers business and border issues. Her position is made possible by Report For America — a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
A scientist-turned-journalist, she worked on the science desk at KQED, for various science news outlets, and has written about dog DNA criminal forensics and the largest fire in Santa Cruz County history, the CZU Lightning Complex wildfire that started in August 2020. Her work has appeared in ABCNews, The Mercury News, and science sites such as Inside Science and Mongabay.
Cuellar, a first-generation college graduate, holds a master’s degree in science communication and a bachelor’s in molecular, cellular and developmental biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was born in Bogotá, Colombia and grew up in Stockton, California after emigrating to the United States.
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Immigration attorneys along the border are scrambling to help migrants seek asylum after the Biden administration ended a Trump-era pandemic border restriction, known as Title 42, and replaced it with a patchwork of different policies. -
Despite significant progress to better living conditions in colonias over the last four decades, these settlements are still defined by their worst moments. While the public’s attention on colonias has largely centered on squalor and societal neglect, Francisco Guajardo says there’s more to the story. -
Republican State Representative Ryan Guillen of Starr County has introduced a bill to weaken Texas law in place to stop the spread of colonias—border settlements with substandard infrastructure. Now local officials and experts fear what will happen if Guillen’s bill passes. -
Election Day is Saturday, May 6. -
The unofficial neighborhoods along the border count about a half-million residents. Many lack basic infrastructure and resources, like water. -
After Texas passed legislation banning nearly all abortions, the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision made any hopes of reinstating abortion care in the state obsolete. Now, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are supporting bills that could increase — or decrease — access to contraceptives and sex ed. -
A group of anti-abortion organizations is suing the Federal Drug Administration over their initial approval of Mifepristone over two decades ago. If the lawsuit succeeds, pregnant people nationwide could lose access to medication abortions. -
Juez declara inconstitucionales los cargos de allanamiento de morada contra migrantes en Texas -
A Kinney County Judge ruled an Operation Lone Star policy to be unconstitutional for being discriminatory against migrant men. -
El Demócrata Vicente González derrota a la Republicana Mayra Flores para ganar el competitivo Distrito 34 del sur de Texas.
