Cristela Guerra

Cristela Guerra is a Senior Arts & Culture Reporter at WBUR since December 2018, known for cultivating a network of sources and providing nuanced reporting with historical context. Guerra has contributed nationally to NPR, focusing on significant topics such as the changing landscape of monuments. As a Nieman Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard from August 2023 to May 2024, Guerra continues to advance professional skills. Prior experience includes serving as a Staff Writer at Boston Globe Media, where coverage spanned features, breaking news, and social issues. Notably, Guerra produced an award-winning series on a family's struggle with mitochondrial disease while working at The News-Press. Guerra holds a B.S. in journalism from Florida International University, completed in 2007.