Bart Jones covers immigration issues on Long Island for Newsday,
and is a former foreign correspondent for the Associated Press in
Venezuela. He spent eight years in Venezuela, including a year as a
Maryknoll lay missioner living in a slum in the nation's
fourth-largest city. He has reported for the Atlantic City Press,
and took a sojourn from his journalism career to teach at a public
junior high school in Spanish Harlem and a Catholic school in a
Puerto Rican neighborhood in Philadelphia. He is a graduate of
Fordham University and earned a master's degree at Columbia
University. Although based in New York, he continues to provide
coverage of Venezuela for publications including The National
Catholic Reporter.