Daniela Gerson is a print and radio journalist based in Los Angeles specializing in
immigration coverage. From 2006 to 2007 she lived in Berlin on a fellowship from the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, were she was based at the journalism
collaborative Blockfrei and wrote for Spiegel Online International as
well as US publications. Her fellowship project was to research and
report on the outcome of past guest worker programs and their
influence on shaping new ones, a continuation of work she began as a
2005 Arthur F. Burns Fellow.

Before moving to Berlin, Daniela reported for three years
on national and local immigration policy as a staff writer for the
New York Sun, and freelanced for WNYC radio and the Brooklynite magazine.
Prior to working at the Sun, she was editor of New
Voices, a magazine for Jewish college students, and managed the Sunset
Park farmer's market in Brooklyn, New York.

Daniela is a graduate of Brown University, where she received a BA in
International Relations and History. She speaks Spanish and Portuguese
and tries to get by in German and Hebrew.