Aura Bogado
Senior reporter
Senior reporter
Aura Bogado is a senior reporter and producer for Reveal. Her impact-driven work covers immigration, with a focus on migrant children in federal custody. She's earned a Murrow Award, a Hillman Prize, and an IRE medal, and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award and an Emmy nominee. She was previously a staff writer at Grist, where she wrote about the intersection of race and the environment, and also worked for Colorlines and The Nation. She's a graduate of Yale University. As a 2021 Center for Health Journalism Data Fellow, she will analyze data about migrant children confined during the early days of Biden’s administration.
A haunting story to report: Children suffering from being away from their families kept thinking about ending their lives.
Data obtained by Reveal highlights how a patchwork system can be ill-equipped to tackle serious mental health episodes, leaving migrant children to bear the tremendous toll.
A new reporting project will seek to shed light on how children are being treated in what remains a secretive federal system.