In January 2007, Fernandes spoke with Democracy Now's Amy Goodman about her new book, Targeted: National Security and the Business of Immigration, published by Seven Stories Press.

[3] While working at WBAI and running People's Production House, she earned an MA from Columbia Journalism School.

In 2013 Fernandes joined the staff of NPR member station KPCC in Pasadena, California, where she covered a newly established beat on Early Childhood Development.

In 2017, she began working as a freelance journalist from around the world for public radio shows, through a reporting fellowship at Pacific Oaks College.

[3] In 2021, Fernandes and her family moved back to the Bay Area, where she joined the San Francisco Chronicle as an immigration correspondent and senior newsroom advisor on Race and Equity.