Pilar Marrero is a journalist and author with long experience in covering social and political issues of the Latino community in the United States. She is one of the foremost experts on immigration policy and politics in the US media world and has covered the issue extensively over her years as a reporter. As a political journalist, Marrero has covered the last nine presidential elections, as well as California gubernatorial elections and Los Angeles mayoral races.
In October of 2018, she was selected by her peers at CCNMA (Latino Journalists of California), as Latina Journalist of the year based on her work during the previous year and the impact and reach in the communities she covers.
She is also an author. In 2012, Pallgrave McMillan published her first book, Killing the American Dream, which chronicles the last 25 years of immigration policy mishaps in the United States and their consequences for the country´s economic future. The book was also published in Spanish by Penguin Books with the title “El Despertar del Sueño Americano.”
She is currently a Contributing Editor for Ethnic Media Services in San Francisco and a Consultant Producer for a documentary about the history of anti-immigrant propositions in California being developed by Public Media Group of Southern California (KCET, Link TV and PBS SoCal) which will premiere this fall.
Her written work currently appears in Latino USA and Latino Rebels, Angelus News, KCET, La Opinion and many other outlets.
Marrero has appeared numerous times in English and Spanish media outlets as a news and political analyst and immigration expert , including CNN, CNN en español, MSNBC, Univision, NPR, KPCC, Al Jazeera, Telemundo, Estrella TV, Radio Nacional de España, Radio Mitre (Argentina), TV Venezuela and France 24 TV
She is currently a Disinformation Reporting Fellow with Ethnic Media Services and the National Conference on Citizenship.