The WBUR Festival

Tim Dunn is a Political Reporter for the Boston Herald. He has over 10 years of experience as a journalist, covering local and regional news for various outlets across Massachusetts to national headlines during his time at Fox News.

Simón Rios is an award-winning reporter, covering immigration, politics and local enterprise stories for WBUR.
He joined the station in 2015 after two years at The Standard-Times in New Bedford. His first assignment at WBUR was to cover “Snowmaggedon,” the blizzards that led to the snowiest winter in Boston’s history. More recently he has covered the impact of immigration enforcement... Read More →

Pablo Manriquez edits Migrant Insider and reports for MeidasTouch. He lives with his dog Roxy in Washington, D.C., where he covers Congress, The White House, and the courts. Pablo is Chile-born, Missouri-raised, and Notre Dame educated. He is also a semi-famous oil painter... Read More →

Allison McCann is a data reporter at The New York Times who covers immigration. Her stories often involve collecting and analyzing data to better understand the topics she covers. She also works across a variety of visual formats — charts, maps, photos, videos — in addition to... Read More →