Aura Bogado is a senior reporter at Injustice Watch. Her work explores the ways the courts impact immigrants in Chicago and Cook County. She was previously a senior reporter and producer at the Center for Investigative Reporting. Her investigative journalism exposed the forced drugging of migrant children, uncovered a military contractor’s confinement of children in vacant office buildings, and documented the lasting consequences of prolonged detention. She specializes in sourcing and elevating the perspectives of those most affected by the practices and policies she investigates. Before that, she focused on environmental justice as a staff writer at Grist, and was a news editor at Colorlines. Bogado’s work has earned her an Edward R. Murrow Award, a Hillman Prize, and an Investigative Reporters and Editors medal. She was a Center for Health Journalism 2021 Data Fellow, and a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her reporting has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and Teen Vogue, and on PBS NewsHour. She’s currently working on a book about migrant children.

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