Julia Preston (born May 29, 1951) is an American journalist and contributing writer for The Marshall Project, focusing on immigration.
[7] From 1980 to 1990, Preston was a correspondent covering armed conflicts in Central America, including the civil war in El Salvador and the contra insurgency, backed by the United States, against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
The award was for "Third World, Second Class," a series that chronicled the daily burdens of poverty, sickness and exploitation faced by women in developing countries.
[10] After ten years as the national immigration correspondent for The New York Times, Preston joined The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization that covers the U.S. criminal justice system.
Her first story, published two weeks after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, noted "the administration was laying the groundwork for a vast expansion of the nation's deportation system.