Nina Kravinsky
Senior Field Correspondent - Hermosillo | [email protected]Nina Kravinsky is a senior field correspondent covering stories about Sonora and the border from the Hermosillo, Mexico, bureau of KJZZ’s Fronteras Desk.
Before joining KJZZ, she was a producer at NPR’s Morning Edition and Up First, where she was often up before the sun to direct the show. In 2023, Kravinsky was part of one of the first NPR teams on the ground in Israel following the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7.
She also spent three months reporting on climate change and local news at NPR member station KYUK in Bethel, Alaska.
Kravinsky started her career in public radio at community station WORT in Madison, Wisconsin, after graduating from University of Wisconsin in 2017.
Originally from Falls Church, Virginia, Kravinsky spends much of her time doting on her senior cat and chasing after her rescue dog. She and her husband enjoy eating their way through new parts of Mexico.
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Live cattle imports from Mexico were again halted after a more than year-long pause to protect against the New World screwworm. Now, the border is back open in Douglas. -
In the Sonoran Sky Islands region, one organization is working to bring back native species. But it’s running up against a lengthening border wall. -
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico restricted the movement of U.S. government activities in Nogales, Sonora due to “threat information.” -
A decision from the United Nations’ cultural preservation body, UNESCO, calls for a mission to the Sonora desert nature reserve to assess the impacts of the border wall. -
The investment goes toward modernizing the around 55 mile long stretch between the Lukeville-Sonoyta border crossing into Arizona and Puerto Peñasco, also known as Rocky Point. -
Mexico’s environmental protection agency is cleaning up more than 3,000 gallons of sulfuric acid that spilled when a tractor trailer overturned on a highway not far from the Arizona border. -
Sonora’s cattle ranchers’ union says the border will reopen to live cattle after a “technical problem” is resolved.
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The newly inaugurated Plaza de las Buscadoras features a statue of a woman searching for the remains of a missing loved one with a shovel. -
Federal authorities in Mexico arrested two people and confiscated the drugs found in a hidden compartment of a passenger bus. -
The Mexican state south of Arizona is seeing a growing number of cases of the New World screwworm parasite as the border reopens for live cattle imports to the United States.
