Hi, my name's Edwin Rios. I joined The Guardian's US staff in April 2022. Previously, I was a reporter at Mother Jones for more than six years, where I covered race, inequality, civil rights, and education. I was a 2021 Center for Health Journalism Data Fellow. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, the son of Puerto Rican parents, I became an inaugural fellow in the Periplus Collective mentorship program, which supports writers of color. My work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Oregonian, Vanity Fair, Fast Company, and the New York Daily News. Two features—one of unsolved homicides in Chester, Pennsylvania, another on the history of school policing and the pursuit of abolition in Oakland schools—received a National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Award and was a finalist for a National Magazine Award, respectively.

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