Aaron Nelsen

Aaron Nelsen is an independent journalist based on the Texas-Mexico border. Previously he was the Rio Grande Valley Bureau Chief for the San Antonio Express-News. He was a 2019 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan where he studied the effect of militarization on communities along the U.S.-Mexico border. A former Time correspondent in Chile, his work appears in the New York Times, The Guardian, Long Read and Texas Monthly.