Arlo Pérez Esquivel

Host/Reporter

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Arlo Pérez Esquivel joined Colorado Public Radio in 2024.

Professional background:
Arlo has a background in filmmaking and public media. He is best known for co-hosting NOVA’s Antarctic Extremes, a series that explores the daily life of Antarctic scientists and the community that supports them. Most recently, Arlo produced PBS Digital Studios’ America Outdoors: Understory with Baratunde Thurston, an ambitious series that tells the stories of communities across the country and their relationship to the outdoors.

Education: Arlo has a Bachelor's degree from Boston College where he double majored in Political Science and Filmmaking.

Awards: In 2021 he won a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for his documentary about the underreporting of COVID-19 cases in his Mexican hometown.

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Colorado Matters

With Colorado’s immigration policies in the national spotlight, families wait to see what a new presidential administration will bring

Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday marks a new era. And of all the ways it could affect Colorado, the most immediate might be immigration. Tens of thousands of people live here without legal permission, and many who came here, especially in the past few years, are under scrutiny. Trump has named his mass deportation plan: Operation Aurora. Today, what effects Trump’s immigration policies could have for Coloradans, and what it means to have Colorado’s immigration policies in the national spotlight.
By Arlo Pérez Esquivel and Kyle Harris