Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is an award-winning journalist, author, and activist. She is best known for her groundbreaking reporting on the U.S. war against Mexico and the Mexican revolution during the 1920s and 1930s, particularly her account of the massacre of more than 200 American oil workers by Mexican revolutionaries. Her reporting was widely credited with influencing U.S
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policy in the 1930s and 1940s to support Mexico's fight against fascism and against Nazi expansionism. Dunbar-Ortiz's writing has been translated into ten languages, including German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Russian and Corse. The recipient of numerous awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, she currently serves as a senior fellow at the Center for Investigative Reporting in California and as a lecturer at Sonoma State University.