Kate Linthicum is a foreign correspondent based in Mexico City. Since joining the Los Angeles Times in 2008 she has covered immigration, local and national politics, and has reported from across Latin America as well as from Asia, Africa and the Middle East. She is a recipient of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, awarded by Columbia University for outstanding reporting in the Americas, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Foreign Correspondence. She has won two Overseas Press Club awards, is a two-time Livingston Awards finalist and was part of a team of journalists that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. She was raised in New Mexico and graduated from Barnard College.
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