Daniel Hernandez

Hello, welcome to my blog. I'm a writer based in Mexico City, working on a book, on contract with Scribner.

The blog you're reading started as an experiment in December 2006. I see it as a tool that enhances my work as a journalist and writer, mapping my travels on the Net and allowing me to engage directly with people everywhere. Intersections has over the years been linked to by sites and blogs such as Boing Boing, The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan, Gawker, Rolling Stone, Wired, The Guardian, LA Observed, and many others.

As a journalist, I began my career as a staff reporter at the L.A. Times, where I wrote about wildfires, homicides, East L.A. life, immigrants, court cases, and the L.A. party scene. I then moved to the LA Weekly, where I wrote long-form features on art, politics, and culture, and covered the 2006 presidential election in Mexico. My journalism has appeared in magazines such as Gatopardo, West, The New York Times 'T' Magazine, Flaunt, 192, The Guardian, California Monthly, Celeste, among others. I'm an occasional commentator for "All Things Considered" on National Public Radio, and do reports from Mexico for Free Speech Radio News on the Pacifica network. In between, I've won a few journalism awards and citations, and participated in the Getty/Annenberg arts journalism fellowship in 2006.

I was born in 1980 in San Diego and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, as a Regents' & Chancellor's Scholar. Both my parents are from Tijuana and work in the San Diego city schools.