Gerry Hadden is an author and journalist who began his public radio career in 1995 at public radio station KPLU in Seattle. In 2000, NPR sent him to Los Angeles, then to Mexico City. From 2000 to 2004, he served as NPR’s Mexico, Central America and Caribbean correspondent and covered presidential elections in Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti and Nicaragua. He extensively reported on immigration, drug trafficking and the varied cultures and characters of Latin America. He also frequently traveled to Cuba, where he reported on US-Cuba relations, the economy, the arts and daily life under Fidel Castro. Four years after watching Jean Bertrand Aristide be sworn in as Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Hadden, in 2004, covered Aristide’s flight from power amidst an armed rebellion.  That same year, Hadden moved with his family to Spain. He covers Spain and other parts of Europe from Barcelona for The World, although his stories have taken him as far as Cape Verde, Istanbul and Kyiv. Hadden says that reporting for public radio is the most interesting job he’s ever had besides driving a taxi in New York. When Hadden is not reporting, he spends time with his partner, Anne, and their three children.

Hadden is the author of the NPR memoir, “Never the Hope Itself: Love and Ghosts in Latin America and Haiti,” and the novel, “Everything Turns Invisible.”