Jennifer Guerra is a senior producer at Michigan Radio. She previously covered poverty and education for the station’s five-year reporting project, State of Opportunity. Before that, she was an arts reporter and on-air host for Michigan Radio. Jen got her start in public radio as a producer at WFUV in the Bronx.
Her stories and documentaries have won several national awards, and her work has aired on NPR, Marketplace and Studio 360.
She was a 2018 Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan.
Jen lives in Ann Arbor with her husband and their two hilarious kids.
Stories from Jennifer Guerra
- Closed Detroit charter looks to court for help with payroll issues
We have an update on the efforts to get Detroit area charter school employees paid for time worked during the school year. Many employees at Michigan Technical Academy spread their paychecks out over … - Detroit schools move to cut back on testing by 70%
Detroit public school students could soon be spending a lot less time on testing during the school year. The Detroit Public Schools Community District is moving to cut the number of assessments they g … - Detroit charter CEO tells unpaid teachers to "hang in there" while he looks for a solution
We reported last week that a Detroit area charter school used state money to pay its bondholders instead of its teachers. Many employees at Michigan Technical Academy spread their paychecks out over t … - Nearly 2,000 MI college students see no debt relief yet under Trump administration
More than 460 Michigan college students who say they have been defrauded by their for-profit schools filed federal claims this year to try to get their student loans forgiven. But the Trump administra … - Detroit's public school teachers approve 3-year contract
Detroit's public school teachers have approved a three-year contract that includes a roughly 7 percent wage increase over the next two years. The contract with the Detroit Public Schools Communit …