Francisco Barradas has worked as a journalist for more of two decades in two different countries, Mexico and the US. He´s now living in China.

Barradas' work focuses on immigration, poverty, education, labor rights, crime, health and science. He is also passionate about movies and baseball.

In 2009 he was awarded the New America Media-Irvine Foundation California Politics and Policy fellowship for ethnic media journalist.  The same year he became a fellow of the Knight Digital Media Center after been selected to participate in a multimedia news production workshop at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.  In 2010, he became a fellow of The Changing Face of America, an intensive institute for journalist covering immigration, organized by the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the Warren Institute at UC Berkeley School of Law. In 2012, Columbia Journalism School accepted him to participate in the workshop Covering Youth Violence: Lessons from the front lines at University Center, Chicago.

In the US, his work has been recognized three times with the José Martí Award from the National Association of Hispanic Publications.

His articles and videos has been syndicated across Impremedia newspapers such as La Opinión (Los Angeles), El Diario (New York), La Raza (Chicago), La Prensa (Orlando). His photographs have landed on the covers of El Tecolote and El Mensajero, and been published in La Opinión, El Diario, SF Weekly, San Francisco Bay View and SFBay.

On the side, Barradas is a voracious reader of literature and history­, and pens calaveras (or "skulls"), satiric verses adopted as a journalistic genre in Mexico since the 19th century.

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