Tyche Hendricks

Tyche Hendricks is an award-winning journalist, an editor at KQED Public Radio and a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. For many years Hendricks covered immigration and demographics at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she reported in depth on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Her work has taken her across the continent from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Lake Nicaragua. Along the way, she has trekked through deserts and jungles, helped pregnancy test cattle and bury hurricane victims, monitored polling stations and learned to cook pollo en mole.

Hendricks has worked at the San Francisco Examiner, the San Jose Mercury News and the Seattle Times and as a freelance radio producer. She holds degrees from Wesleyan University and UC Berkeley. She lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area.