Alexandra Hall

About

Alex Hall is an enterprise and accountability reporter for KQED Public Radio. Previously, she covered California's San Joaquin Valley for five years from KQED's Central Valley bureau in Fresno. Her investigation into COVID-19 outbreaks at Foster Farms won KQED a national Edward R. Murrow award in 2022. Prior to KQED, Alex was an investigative reporting fellow at Wisconsin Public Radio and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. Her reporting on undocumented immigrant dairy workers was made into a film, Los Lecheros, which won a regional Murrow award. In 2016, she wrote a cover story for The Washington Post Magazine about the children and teenagers who work in America’s tobacco fields. Alex has worked as a bilingual producer for NPR’s Investigative Unit, a freelance producer for Reuters TV, a translator for CNN Chile and a freelance reporter based in Santiago, Chile. Alex's reporting has aired on NPR, Reveal and Radio Ambulante. She holds a B.A. in Spanish from U.C. Santa Cruz and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Columbia University. She is fluent in Spanish.