Jenny Casas

Senior Radio Editor

Jenny Casas is a senior radio editor for Reveal. She was previously a narrative audio producer at The New York Times developing shows for the Opinion Department. She was in the inaugural cohort of AIR's Edit Mode: Story Editor Training. She has reported on the ways that cities systematically fail their people for WNYC, USA Today, City Bureau and St. Louis Public Radio. Casas is from California and is based in Chicago.

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Posted inLaw Enforcement

The Border Patrol’s Fearless 5%

Portrait of steven rascón by Anayansi Diaz-Cortes, Aura Bogado, Jenny Casas, Kate Howard, Najib Aminy, Nikki Frick, Steven Rascón, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Brett Myers, Taki Telonidis and Al Letson

Female agents are so rare in the U.S. Border Patrol that they have their own nickname: the Fearless 5%. It’s meant as a badge of honor, but the title is a bold admission of the agency’s inability to recruit or retain women.