And I Walked…Stories from the Border
Original Airdate: 2003 Third Coast International Audio Festival
Aired: PRI’s Here and Now, Hearing Voices “Crossing Borders” Special, WBEZ Re:Sound, WNYC Radio Lab, 2005 True/False Film Festival, Features Festival in Lucerne Switzerland

Awards: 2007 George Foster Peabody Award as part of “Crossing Borders,” 2004 RTNDA Regional Murrow Award recipient: Use of Sound, 2003 Arizona Associated Press Broadcasters: First Place, Use of Sound, 2005 NFCB Golden Reel–National News and Public Affairs Pieces

Much of the Sonoran desert between Tucson and Mexico is a haunting
wasteland of discarded shoes, shirts and empty plastic water jugs.
People leave one place for another in search of a dream. Some lose.
They die from dehydration. “And I walked…” is a soundscape of how
the thirst for the American dream translates into a literal thirst for
the scores of illegal immigrants who risk their lives as they cross
the desert from Mexico into the United States in search of
better-paying jobs.