Alice Laurel Driver
Media Experience
Univision
NBC
The New Yorker
National Geographic
Available for Interviews In
spanish
Alice Driver is a James Beard Award-winning investigative journalist and public speaker from the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. She is the author of Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company (One Signal Publishers 2024). In 2024, the book won the Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. To invite Driver to speak at an event, you can contact the Simon & Schuster Speaker's Bureau. In 2025, Driver participated in The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Residency, whose former residents include Maya Angelou and Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
Sub-specialites: gender equality, femicide, immigration, labor rights, meatpacking
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Diving—and Dying—for Red Gold: The Human Cost of Honduran Lobster
Civil Eats [December 6, 2023] -
Working in Their Sleep
The New York Review [December 23, 2022] -
Tyson Says Its Nurses Help Workers. Critics Charge They Stymie OSHA.
Civil Eats [November 17, 2022] -
The real immigration crisis is not at the border
CNN [August 29, 2021] -
Their Lives on the Line by Alice Driver
The New York Review [April 27, 2021] -
in conversation: liu xiaodong + alice driver
Dallas Contemporary [May 29, 2021] -
Bold New Voices in Migration Research: Understanding Displacement, Hope, Resistance
Immigration Initiative at Harvard [March 31, 2021] -
Reporting on the US-Mexico Border Crisis During the Pandemic
Princeton University, Humanities Council [February 16, 2021] -
Life on the U.S. asylum waitlist: a long and dangerous wait
National Geographic [September 25, 2019] -
An Intimate Look at Life Inside the Migrant Caravan
TIME [November 13, 2018] -
Scenes From a Migration Crisis—On Both Sides of the Border
National Geographic [June 29, 2018] -
The Road to Asylum
Longreads [June 2018] -
Across the Language Barrier
Columbia Journalism Review [Fall 2018] -
Every Last Drop
Topic [August 2018] -
Mexican Supreme Court rules that prohibiting abortions to rape victims is unlawful
The Lily [May 17, 2018] -
Trapped on the tarmac, watching Mexico City shake
CNN.com [September 20, 2017] -
Searching for a Mother's Truth at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Lenny Letter [September 12, 2017] -
Rethinking the dangers women journalists face
New York Times: Women in the World [August 28, 2017] -
The Shit Men Say to Me When I Travel
Outside [June 30, 2017] -
Father of Migrants
Longreads [June 29, 2017] -
Journalist traveled almost halfway around the world to meet her mom at the march in D.C.
New York Times' Women in the World [January 23, 2017] -
"Nos Queremos Vivas": Acabar con el Feminicidio en Juárez, México
World Policy Blog [January 19, 2017] -
The courageous Colombian activist going head-to-head with mining interests
New York Times [June 27, 2016] -
What is the importance of women voters in the presidential election?
NTN24 [April 5, 2016] -
Q&A with Alice Driver: How Journalists Can Cover Violence Against Women in Mexico
International Journalists' Network [September 11, 2015]
On April 20, Marcia Mejía Chirimia, 28, an indigenous Colombian peace and women’s rights activist, received a text message from someone she believes is a member of a paramilitary group.
“Who Killed Rúben Espinosa?” read headlines throughout Mexico after the brutal murder of five people in Mexico City. On July 31, the victims were found in an apartment the Narvarte neighborhood of Mexico City.
