Paul Cuadros

Paul Cuadros is the author of the best-selling book A Home on the Field: How One Championship Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small-Town America. The book has been selected as summer reading at five universities. He is the star of the television documentary series “Los Jets,” produced by Jennifer Lopez. He is an award-winning investigative reporter and author whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Huffington Post, Time magazine, Salon.com, the Chicago Reporter, and other national and local publications.

For the past twenty-five years, Cuadros has focused his reporting on issues of race and poverty in America for a variety of publications and broadcast media. In 1999, Cuadros foresaw the impact of Latino migration on the interior portion of the United States and won a fellowship with the Alicia Patterson Foundation, sponsored by New York Newsday, to report on emerging Latino communities in rural poultry-processing towns in the South. The Alicia Patterson Fellowship is considered one of the most prestigious fellowships in journalism. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.